A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
by Joseph D'Donnell
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Book Summary Information
Author: Joseph D'DonnellEditor: Robert Coles
Editor: Randy Testa
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-06-01
ISBN: 1565847296
Number of pages: 329
Publisher: New Press, The
Book Reviews of A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
Book Review: Another Five-Star Vote
Summary: 5 Stars
-Just wanted to add another five-star vote for this excellent anthology.
-The NEJM review from 2002 does a fine job of summarizing the text so I won't add much here. My perspective is as a clinician for 25 years.
-I found the book was realistic, knowledgeable, and often solidly humorous, and often found myself thinking I had experienced something very similar to what the authors were reporting. THis is the kind of book that gives a "booster shot" to your determination to try to be a decent clinician -- similar to that given by people such as Rachel Remen, who remind you of the sacredness of your profession not because it is perfect, but because it is an attempt to do some good in a world where so much suffering exists.
Summary of A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
A stirring collection of stories, poems, and essays on all aspects of the medical profession, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the "Children of Crisis" series. A century of unprecedented scientific advances has left the medical profession facing profound ethical and procedural crises, as doctors, nurses, hospice workers, psychiatrists, and others involved in the healing arts struggle to keep up with the science while staying true to the humanitarian goals at the heart of their work. A Life in Medicine explores questions such as, "What is a 'small, good thing' in medicine?" "Can patients be instruments of grace?" and "How does one muster one's compassion for (so-called) 'difficult' patients?," bringing together provocative and moving writing on the moral and ethical lives of physicians, nurses, and psychiatrists, and injecting a dose of contemporary reality into a centuries-old discussion. The book is organized around the central themes of altruism, knowledge, skill, and duty, and contributors include well-known writers, doctors, nurses, practitioners, and patients, who address life and death, cancer and AIDS, seizures and psychosis, advocacy and anatomy, from both ends of the stethoscope.With stories by: Raymond Carver . Anton Chekhov . Shusaku Endo . Anne Fadiman . Laurie Moore . William Carlos Williams
Poems by: . Hart Crane . Walt Whitman . Raymond Carver
And essays by: . Wendell Berry . Robert Coles . Robert Jay Lifton . Sara Lawrence Lightfoot . Audre Lorde . Lewis Thomas . Albert Schweitzer . Terry Tempest Williams
and others.
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