Doctors have a hands-on relationship with the big mysteries—or seem to. Perhaps family
doctors do especially. The subjects of their professional lives are the traditional subjects of …

Whether you are doctor, patient, or lover of literature, read this book. In it you will find a
collection of stories, essays, and poems that originally appeared in Annals of Internal …

An Eritrean couple first saw me at the refugee clinic four months ago in crisis with an
unplanned pregnancy.“It is good now,” he says today, gesturing at his wife's belly.“We are …

wind up in this seminar. They thought that they had finished with English after freshman
composition 101. There is an initial stare of uncomprehending silence. I hasten to reassure …

Endings, Beginnings After a physician's mother dies in her arms, she becomes crippled by
fear. For months afterward, she finds it hard to tolerate touching patients. Though she goes …

Poetry illuminates the work of health care professionals well beyond procedure guidelines,
clinic schedules or best practice policy. Poems and commentary from the perspective of a …

Physicians save lives. That is the demanding standard every physician is held to and the
one they always strive to meet, despite the uncertainty and fallibility that they face. Patients' …

In the poem “Paterson,” William Carlos Williams voices a neighbour's reaction when he
reveals that he is a poet, as well as a physician:“It must be a great/thing to have such a …

I hoped that there would be the books about inexperienced doctors like me who have just
started their career as doctors. That hope made me decide to write the book about it by …

“Professionalism” has become a catchphrase in medicine. In particular, the term is used as
an administrative mantra addressing all aspects of physicians' proper attitude and behavior …