The orange wire problem and other tales from the doctor's office
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| Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
c2009.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10579431 |
Table of 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.