On doctor[i]ng : stories, poems, essays

Reynolds, Richard, 1929-2022 (Added Author). Stone, John, 1936-2008 (Added Author). Nixon, Lois LaCivita. (Added Author). Wear, Delese. (Added Author).

Summary:

This new, larger edition of On Doctoring is an extraordinary collection of stories, poems, and essays written by physicians and non-physicians alike - works that record what it is like to be sick, to be cured, to lose, or to triumph. Drawing on the full spectrum of human emotions, the selections range from John Donne's classic "Death Be Not Proud" to Pablo Neruda's "Larynx," the terrified voice of a man who thinks he is on the verge of dying; to Lewis Thomas's "House Calls," a heartwarming memoir of the man who inspired Dr. Thomas to enter medicine - his father; to James Dickey's poem about a courageous bout with cancer, "The Cancer Match"; to Linda Pastan's delightfully wry account of giving birth in "Notes from the Delivery Room."

At a time when medicine is becoming more and more technical and institutionalized, the book captures the breadth and wonder of the medical profession, reminding us of what it is really all about. Representing the issues, concerns, and challenges facing doctors and patients alike, On Doctoring is at once illuminating and provocative. It is a book you will reach for time and again - a celebration of life and of a profession that helps make life possible.

Contents:

It is still a privilege to be a doctor / Carola Eisenberg
Naaman cured of leprosy, 2 Kings 5:1-14 : Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach) 30:14-17 : Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach) 38:1-15 / The Bible
Death be not proud / John Donne
This living hand, now warm and capable / John Keats
The stethoscope song / Oliver Wendell Holmes
There's been a death
Surgeons must be very careful
I heard a fly buzz
"
Hope"
is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson
Aphorisms / Sir William Osler
The curse of Eve / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Misery
A doctor's visit / Anton Chekhov
"
Out, out
"
/ Robert Frost
from The summing up / W. Somerset Maugham
The practice
The artist
Between walls
Le médecin malgré lui
The birth
The last words of my English grandmother
The girl with the pimply face
The use of force / William Carlos Williams
A country doctor / Franz Kafka
The watch / Frances Cornford
The immortals / Jorge Luis Borges
Indian camp
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps
My most humiliating Jim Crow experience / Zora Neale Hurston
Larynx / Pablo Neruda
Before the anaesthetic, or A real fright / Sir John Betjeman
Musée des beaux arts
The art of healing / W.H. Auden
A worn path / Eudora Welty
The doctor who sits at the bedside of a rat sheep / Josephine Miles
from A few green leaves / Barbara Pym
Glaucoma / Edward Lowbury
House calls
Leech leech, et cetera / Lewis Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
Next day / Randall Jarrell
Washing your feet / John Ciardi
The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks
Coming into the end zone / Doris Grumbach
Doctor, talk to me / Anatole Broyard
Faith healing / Philip Larkin
Saba / Ferrol Sams
Fortitude / Kurt Vonnegut
A man told me the story of his life / Grace Paley
A correct compassion / James Kirkup
X-ray
Case history
Carnal knowledge / Dannie Abse
Diabetes
The cancer match / James Dickey
Talking to grief
Death psalm : O Lord of mysteries / Denise Levertov
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
A deathplace / L.E. Sissman
Mercy
Imela / Richard Selzer
The last decision / Maya Angelou
A day in the life of an internist / Richard C. Reynolds
from The call of stories / Robert Coles
Medical ethics and living a life / Robert Coles
Little elegy : for a child who skipped rope / X.J. Kennedy
Auden and the liposome / Gerald Weissmann
Going
A day in the death / Miller Williams
One more time / Patricia Goedicke
The appointment / L.J. Schneiderman
The five stages of grief
Notes from the delivery room
Remission / Linda Pastan
The house officer's changing world / Joseph Hardison
On embalming / Frank Gonzales-Crussi
Gaudeamus igitur
Death / John Stone
the lost baby poem
poem to my uterus / Lucille Clifton
Death of bed / Ghassan Kanafani
Don't touch the heart / Lawrence K. Altman
What the doctor said
My death / Raymond Carver
The woman who could not live with her faulty heart / Margaret Atwood
35/10
Miscarriage / Sharon Olds
The knitted glove
Good news / Jack Coulehan
On the subject of doctors / James Tate
Medicine / Alice Walker
Mistakes / David Hilfiker
The dawn of wonder / Melvin Konner
Let's talk about it / David Rinaldi
What hell is / Heather McHugh
Suffering / Ronald Valdiserri
Touching / David Hellerstein
from My own country / Abraham Verghese
Invasions / Perri Klass
Hospital sketchbook : life on the ward through an intern's eyes / Elspeth Cameron Ritchie
The son : returning home / Jon Mukand
We are nighttime travelers / Ethan Canin.

Item details

ISBN: 9780684802558
ISBN: 0684802554
Physical Description: 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
print
Edition: New, revised, and expanded edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [1995]
Copyright: ©1995

Contents / Notes

General Note:

On title page "[i]" appears as a caduceus.

Formatted Contents Note:

It is still a privilege to be a doctor / Carola Eisenberg
Naaman cured of leprosy, 2 Kings 5:1-14 : Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach) 30:14-17 : Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach) 38:1-15 / The Bible
Death be not proud / John Donne
This living hand, now warm and capable / John Keats
The stethoscope song / Oliver Wendell Holmes
There's been a death ; Surgeons must be very careful ; I heard a fly buzz ; "Hope" is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson
Aphorisms / Sir William Osler
The curse of Eve / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Misery ; A doctor's visit / Anton Chekhov
"Out, out
" / Robert Frost
from The summing up / W. Somerset Maugham
The practice ; The artist ; Between walls ; Le médecin malgré lui ; The birth ; The last words of my English grandmother ; The girl with the pimply face ; The use of force / William Carlos Williams
A country doctor / Franz Kafka
The watch / Frances Cornford
The immortals / Jorge Luis Borges
Indian camp ; Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps
My most humiliating Jim Crow experience / Zora Neale Hurston
Larynx / Pablo Neruda
Before the anaesthetic, or A real fright / Sir John Betjeman
Musée des beaux arts ; The art of healing / W.H. Auden
A worn path / Eudora Welty
The doctor who sits at the bedside of a rat sheep / Josephine Miles
from A few green leaves / Barbara Pym
Glaucoma / Edward Lowbury
House calls ; Leech leech, et cetera / Lewis Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
Next day / Randall Jarrell
Washing your feet / John Ciardi
The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks
Coming into the end zone / Doris Grumbach
Doctor, talk to me / Anatole Broyard
Faith healing / Philip Larkin
Saba / Ferrol Sams
Fortitude / Kurt Vonnegut
A man told me the story of his life / Grace Paley
A correct compassion / James Kirkup
X-ray ; Case history ; Carnal knowledge / Dannie Abse
Diabetes ; The cancer match / James Dickey
Talking to grief ; Death psalm : O Lord of mysteries / Denise Levertov
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
A deathplace / L.E. Sissman
Mercy ; Imela / Richard Selzer
The last decision / Maya Angelou
A day in the life of an internist / Richard C. Reynolds
from The call of stories / Robert Coles
Medical ethics and living a life / Robert Coles
Little elegy : for a child who skipped rope / X.J. Kennedy
Auden and the liposome / Gerald Weissmann
Going ; A day in the death / Miller Williams
One more time / Patricia Goedicke
The appointment / L.J. Schneiderman
The five stages of grief ; Notes from the delivery room ; Remission / Linda Pastan
The house officer's changing world / Joseph Hardison
On embalming / Frank Gonzales-Crussi
Gaudeamus igitur ; Death / John Stone
the lost baby poem ; poem to my uterus / Lucille Clifton
Death of bed / Ghassan Kanafani
Don't touch the heart / Lawrence K. Altman
What the doctor said ; My death / Raymond Carver
The woman who could not live with her faulty heart / Margaret Atwood
35/10 ; Miscarriage / Sharon Olds
The knitted glove ; Good news / Jack Coulehan
On the subject of doctors / James Tate
Medicine / Alice Walker
Mistakes / David Hilfiker
The dawn of wonder / Melvin Konner
Let's talk about it / David Rinaldi
What hell is / Heather McHugh
Suffering / Ronald Valdiserri
Touching / David Hellerstein
from My own country / Abraham Verghese
Invasions / Perri Klass
Hospital sketchbook : life on the ward through an intern's eyes / Elspeth Cameron Ritchie
The son : returning home / Jon Mukand
We are nighttime travelers / Ethan Canin.