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A Life in Medicine

by: Coles, Robert; Testa, Randy-Michael; D'Donnell, Joseph, M.D.; Armstrong, Penny; Anderson, M. Brownell

A Life in Medicine

by: Coles, Robert; Testa, Randy-Michael; D'Donnell, Joseph, M.D.; Armstrong, Penny; Anderson, M. Brownell

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Copyright: 06/01/2002
Publisher: Ingram Pub Services
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Short fiction, poetry, and essays by such notable authors as Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Wendell Berry, Robert Coles, Audre Lorde, Lewis Thomas, and Albert Schweitzer explore diverse facets of the medical profession, covering

Acknowledgments

xiii

Preface

Randy Testa

Joseph O'Donnell

Penny Armstrong

M. Brownell Anderson

Introduction The Moral Education of Medical Students

xvii

Robert Coles

PART ONE Physicians Must Be Altruistic

(66)

Outpatient

(6)

Rosalind Warren

from First Sermon on Reverence for Life

(3)

Albert Schweitzer

Like a Prayer

(7)

Rafael Campo

The Body Flute

(4)

Cortney Davis

Can You Teach Compassion?

(5)

Jerome Lowenstein

1852: J. Marion Sims Perfects a Repair for Vesicovaginal Fistula

(3)

Kirsten Emmott

from The Nazi Doctors

(8)

Robert Jay Lifton

The Lie

(3)

Lawrence Grouse

The Wound Dresser, from Leaves of Grass

(4)

Walt Whitman

The Good Doctor

(12)

Susan Onthank Mates

Episode of Hands

(2)

Hart Crane

from Deep River

(7)

Shusako Endo

PART TWO Physician Must Be Knowledgeable

(72)

The Cadaver

(14)

Alice Jones

Anyuta

(5)

Anton Chekhov

The Man with Stars Inside Him

(3)

Jack Coulehan

From the Heart

(3)

Rachel Naomi Remen

The Seductive Beauty of Physiology

(7)

Jeffrey R. Botkin

from People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk

101

(2)

Lorrie Moore

Admission, Children's Unit

103

(3)

Theodore Deppe

The Village Watchman

106

(8)

Terry Tempest Williams

from The Elephant Man: A Play

114

(4)

Bernard Pomerance

Leech, Leech, Et Cetera

118

(8)

Lewis Thomas

Baptism by Rotation, from A Country Doctor's Notebook

126

(10)

Mikhail Bulgakov

Who Owns the Libretto?

136

(3)

Judy Schaeffer

PART THREE Physicians Must Be Skillful

139

(102)

The Tallis Case

141

(3)

David Nash

from My Own Country

144

(9)

Abraham Verghese

What the Doctor Said

153

(2)

Raymond Carver

This Red Oozing

155

(3)

Jeanne Bryner

From the Listening End of the Stethoscope

158

(6)

John Stone

Large Woman, Half

164

(2)

Alyson Porter

The Knee

166

(2)

Constance Meyd

from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

168

(3)

Jean-Dominique Bauby

Letter from the Rehabilitation Institute

171

(3)

Lucia Cordell Getsi

Breast Cancer: Power vs. Prosthesis, from The Cancer Journals

174

(6)

Audre Lorde

A Small, Good Thing

180

(24)

Raymond Carver

Pies

204

(2)

Timothy J. Fisher

Communion

206

(2)

Sarah Lentz

The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine

208

(15)

Eric J. Cassel

Repose

223

(3)

Matt Dugan

The Girl with the Pimply Face

226

(13)

William Carlos Williams

Healers: The Physician and the Mori

239

(2)

Michael Weingarten

PART FOUR Physicians Must Be Dutiful

241

(84)

from Not All of Us Are Saints

243

(12)

David Hilfiker

In Terror of Hospital Bills

255

(2)

James Wright

Another Case of Chronic Pelvic Pain

257

(5)

Veneta Masson

from The Scalpel and the Silver Bear

262

(9)

Lori Arviso Alvord

Unwed

271

(2)

Kirsten Emmott

from A Wise Birth

273

(13)

Penny Armstrong

Sheryl Feldman

from The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

286

(10)

Anne Fadiman

Health Is Membership

296

(7)

Wendell Berry

from An Unquiet Mind

303

(4)

Kay Redfield Jamison

A Young Psychaitrist Looks at His Profession, from The Mind's Fate

307

(9)

Robert Coles

from The Tennis Partner

316

(2)

Abraham Verghese

Facing Our Morality: The Virtue of a Common Life

318

(7)

David Loxtercamp

Permissions

325

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