The orange wire problem and other tales from the doctor's office
By: by David Watts.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781587298004
Subjects: Physician and patient -- Anecdotes; Medicine -- Anecdotes; Physicians -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface: what you might expect to find here; title: Facts and lies; title: The orange wire problem; title: Brain damage; title: Let eagles come; title: The chart in the window; title: Thank you Mr. Nicholson; title: Talking about Christmas; title: Silence knows the right questions; title: Cancer cell; title: Anathema; title: Telling the truth in the realm of truth; title: Ghosts in the machine; title: Blood butterfly; title: Is something wrong with your prostate?; title: The soft animal of the body; title: Aspirin and beauty; title: Notes from the center of a perpetual breakdown; title: Ready for anything; title: A critical distance; title: The way we know what we know; title: Third opinion; title: Hanna's volvulus; title: The case of the missing molecule; title: The pill on the shelf; title: Mother Teresa and the problem of care; title: The doctor's pill; title: Afterword: brilliance.