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Author:
Watts, H. David.
Title:
The orange wire problem and other tales from the doctor's office / David Watts.
Publisher:
University of Iowa Press,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
xvii, 186 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Physician and patient--Anecdotes.
Medicine--Anecdotes.
Physicians--Anecdotes.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
1587298007 (pb : alk. paper)
9781587298004 (pb : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2008035418
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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