On doctoring Stories, poems, essays
Book - 1991
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New York :
Simon & Schuster
[1991]
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- English
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- Physical Description
- 428 pages
- ISBN
- 9780671748142
- Is it still a privilege to be a doctor / Carola Eisenberg
- Naaman cured of leprosy, 2 Kings 5:1-14 ; Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach) 30:14-17 ; Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach) 38:1-15 / The bible
- "Death be not proud" / John Donne
- "This living hand, now warm and capable" / John Keats
- The stethoscope song / Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "There's been a death" ; "Surgeons must be very careful" ; "I heard a fly buzz" ; "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" / Emily Dickenson
- Aequanimitas / Sir William Osler
- The curse of Eve / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Misery ; A doctor's visit / Anton Chekhov
- "Out, out--" / Robert Frost
- Excerpt from "The summing up" / W. Somerset Maugham
- The practice ; The artist ; Between walls ; Le medecin malgre lui ; The birth ; The last words of my English grandmother ; The girl with a pimply face ; The use of force / William Carlos Williams
- A country doctor / Franz Kafka
- Patient-physician communication / Dana Atchley
- Medicine: the art and the science / Herrman Blumgart
- What is a profession? / Earle P. Scarlett
- The immortals / Jorge Luis Borges
- Indian camp / Ernest Hemingway
- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps
- Larynx / Pablo Neruda
- Human care / C.P. Snow
- Before the anaesthetic, or real fright / Sir John Betjeman
- The art of healing ; Musee des beaux arts / W.H. Auden
- On becoming a clinician / Paul B. Beeson
- A worn path / Eudora Welty.
- "The doctor who sits at the bedside of a rat" ; Sheep / Josephine Miles
- What is a clinician and what does he do? / Philip A. Tumulty
- Excerpt from A few green leaves / Barbara Pym
- Glaucoma / Edward Lowbury
- House calls ; Leech leech, et cetera / Lewis Thomas
- "Do not go gentle into that good night" / Dylan Thomas
- Next day / Randall Jarrell
- To be a doctor / Felix Marti-Ibanez
- Washing your feet
- John Ciardi
- The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks
- Faith healing / Philip Larkin
- Saba / Ferrol Sams
- A correct compassion / James Kirkup
- X-ray ; Case history ; Tuberculosis ; The stethoscope / Dannie Abse
- Diabetes ; The cancer match / James Dickey
- Talking to grief ; Death psalm: o lord of mysteries / Denise Levertov
- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
- A deathplace / L.E. Sissman
- Mercy ; Imelda / Richard Selzer
- The last decision / Maya Angelou
- A day in the life of an internist / Richard C. Reynolds
- Excerpt from The call of stories medical ethics and living a life / Robert Coles
- Little elegy: for a child who skipped rope / X.J. Kennedy
- The chart of the novel / Gerald Weissmann
- Going ; A day in the death / Miller Williams
- One more time / Patricia Goedicke
- The appointment / L.J. Schneiderman
- The five stages of grief ; Notes from the delivery room ; Ethics / Linda Pastan
- The house officer's changing world / Joseph Hardison
- On embalming / Frank Gonzales-Crussi.
- Gaudeamus igitur ; Death / John Stone
- The lost baby poem / Lucille Clifton
- Don't touch the heart / Lawrence K. Altman
- The autopsy room ; My death / Raymond Carver
- The woman who could not live with her faulty heart / Margaret Atwood
- 35/10 ; Miscarriage / Sharon Olds
- The knitted glove / Jack Coulehan
- On the subject of doctors / James Tate
- Mistakes / David Hilfiker
- The dawn of wonder / Melvin Konner
- What hell is / Heather McHugh
- Touching / David Hellerstein
- Invasions / Perri Klass
- Lullaby / Jon Mukand
- We are nighttime travelers / Ethan Canin.