On doctoring : stories, poems, essays

On doctoring Stories, poems, essays

Book - 1991

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Subjects
Physicians > Literary collections.
Medicine > Literary collections.
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster c1991.
Language
English
Other Authors
Richard C. Reynolds, 1929- (-), John Stone, 1936-
Physical Description
428 p.
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.

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