The orange wire problem and other tales from the doctor's office [electronic resource] / David Watts.
Material type: TextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2009Description: xvii, 186 pISBN: 9781587298493 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Physician and patient -- Anecdotes | Medicine -- Anecdotes | Physicians -- AnecdotesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 610.69/6 LOC classification: R727.3 | .W383 2009Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references.
Preface: what you might expect to find here -- Facts and lies -- The orange wire problem -- Brain damage -- Let eagles come -- The chart in the window -- Thank you Mr. Nicholson -- Talking about Christmas -- Silence knows the right questions -- One cancer cell -- Anathema -- Telling the truth in the realm of truth -- Ghosts in the machine -- Blood butterfly -- Is something wrong with your prostate? -- The soft animal of the body -- Aspirin and beauty -- Notes from the center of a perpetual breakdown -- Ready for anything -- A critical distance -- The way we know what we know -- Third opinion -- Hanna's volvulus -- The case of the missing molecule -- The pill on the shelf -- Mother Teresa and the problem of care -- The doctor's pill -- Afterword: brilliance.
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