A Life in Medicine

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

• ISBN13: 9781565847293
• ISBN10: 1565847296
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Preface	xv
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	1	(66)
Outpatient	3	(6)
Rosalind Warren
from First Sermon on Reverence for Life	9	(3)
Albert Schweitzer
Like a Prayer	12	(7)
Rafael Campo
The Body Flute	19	(4)
Cortney Davis
Can You Teach Compassion?	23	(5)
Jerome Lowenstein
1852: J. Marion Sims Perfects a Repair for Vesicovaginal Fistula	28	(3)
Kirsten Emmott
from The Nazi Doctors	31	(8)
Robert Jay Lifton
The Lie	39	(3)
Lawrence Grouse
The Wound Dresser, from Leaves of Grass	42	(4)
Walt Whitman
The Good Doctor	46	(12)
Susan Onthank Mates
Episode of Hands	58	(2)
Hart Crane
from Deep River	60	(7)
Shusako Endo
PART TWO Physician Must Be Knowledgeable	67	(72)
The Cadaver	69	(14)
Alice Jones
Anyuta	83	(5)
Anton Chekhov
The Man with Stars Inside Him	88	(3)
Jack Coulehan
From the Heart	91	(3)
Rachel Naomi Remen
The Seductive Beauty of Physiology	94	(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