From Chekhov to Maugham to William Carlos Williams, doctors have long given voice to their unique perspectives through literature. Writer, M.D. celebrates this rich tradition with a collection of fiction and nonfiction by today's most beloved physician-writers, including, • Abraham Verghese, on the lost art of the physical exam • Pauline Chen, on the bond between a med student and her first cadaver • Atul Gawande, on the ethical dilemmas of a young surgical intern • Danielle Ofri, on the devastation of losing a patient • Ethan Canin, on love, poetry, and growing old These essays and stories…mehr
From Chekhov to Maugham to William Carlos Williams, doctors have long given voice to their unique perspectives through literature. Writer, M.D. celebrates this rich tradition with a collection of fiction and nonfiction by today's most beloved physician-writers, including, • Abraham Verghese, on the lost art of the physical exam • Pauline Chen, on the bond between a med student and her first cadaver • Atul Gawande, on the ethical dilemmas of a young surgical intern • Danielle Ofri, on the devastation of losing a patient • Ethan Canin, on love, poetry, and growing old These essays and stories illuminate the inner lives of men and women who deal with trauma, illness, mortality, and grief on a daily basis. Read together, they provide a candid, moving, one-of-a-kind glimpse behind the doctor's mask.
Leah Kaminsky is an award-winning writer and a practicing family physician. She is the author of four books, including Stitching Things Together, a collection of poetry. She has studied writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, New York University, and Vermont College of Fine Arts, and is currently at work on her first novel. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.
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Foreword by Jerome Groopman Introduction by Leah Kaminsky NONFICTION Bedside Manners by Abraham Verghese Index Case by Perri Klass Resurrectionist by Pauline W. Chen Intensive Care by Danielle Ofri Falling Down by Sandeep Jauhar Beauty by Gabriel Weston Do Not Go Gentle by Irvin Yalom The Lost Mariner by Oliver Sacks The Learning Curve by Atul Gawande The Infernal Chorus by Robert Jay Lifton FICTION We Are Nighttime Travelers by Ethan Canin Dog 1, Dog 2 by Nick Earls The Duty to Die Cheaply by Peter Goldsworthy Finding Joshua by Jacinta Halloran Tahirih by Leah Kaminsky Communion by John Murray
Foreword by Jerome Groopman Introduction by Leah Kaminsky NONFICTION Bedside Manners by Abraham Verghese Index Case by Perri Klass Resurrectionist by Pauline W. Chen Intensive Care by Danielle Ofri Falling Down by Sandeep Jauhar Beauty by Gabriel Weston Do Not Go Gentle by Irvin Yalom The Lost Mariner by Oliver Sacks The Learning Curve by Atul Gawande The Infernal Chorus by Robert Jay Lifton FICTION We Are Nighttime Travelers by Ethan Canin Dog 1, Dog 2 by Nick Earls The Duty to Die Cheaply by Peter Goldsworthy Finding Joshua by Jacinta Halloran Tahirih by Leah Kaminsky Communion by John Murray
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