A Life in Medicine by Coles, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Dedication Acknowledgments Preface Introduction PART ONE - Physicians Must Be Altruistic

OUTPATIENT from FIRST SERMON ON REVERENCE FOR LIFE LIKE A PRAYER THE BODY FLUTE CAN YOU TEACH COMPASSION? 1852: J. MARION SIMS PERFECTS A REPAIR FOR VESICOVAGINAL FISTULA from THE NAZI DOCTORS

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THE LIE THE WOUND DRESSER from Leaves of Grass

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THE GOOD DOCTOR EPISODE OF HANDS from DEEP RIVER

PART TWO - Physicians Must Be Knowledgeable

THE CADAVER

I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII

ANYUTA THE MAN WITH STARS INSIDE HIM FROM THE HEART THE SEDUCTIVE BEAUTY OF PHYSIOLOGY

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from PEOPLE LIKE THAT ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE HERE: CANONICAL BABBLING IN PEED ONK ADMISSION, CHILDREN’S UNIT THE VILLAGE WATCHMAN from THE ELEPHANT MAN: A PLAY LEECH, LEECH, ET CETERA BAPTISM BY ROTATION from A Country Doctor’s Notebook WHO OWNS THE LIBRETTO?

PART THREE - Physicians Must Be Skillful

THE TALLIS CASE from MY OWN COUNTRY WHAT THE DOCTOR SAID THIS RED OOZING FROM THE LISTENING END OF THE STETHOSCOPE LARGE WOMAN, HALF THE KNEE from THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY LETTER FROM THE REHABILITATION INSTITUTE BREAST CANCER: POWER VS. PROSTHESIS from The Cancer Journals A SMALL, GOOD THING PIES COMMUNION THE NATURE OF SUFFERING AND THE GOALS OF MEDICINE

“Person” Is Not “Mind” An Impending Destruction of Person A Simplified Description of the Person The Nature of Suffering The Amelioration of Suffering When Suffering Continues

REPOSE THE GIRL WITH THE PIMPLY FACE HEALERS: THE PHYSICIAN AND THE MORI

PART FOUR - Physicians Must Be Dutiful

from NOT ALL OF US ARE SAINTS IN TERROR OF HOSPITAL BILLS ANOTHER CASE OF CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN from THE SCALPEL AND THE SILVER BEAR UNWED from A WISE BIRTH from THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN HEALTH IS MEMBERSHIP from AN UNQUIET MIND A YOUNG PSYCHIATRIST LOOKS AT HIS PROFESSION from The Mind’s Fate from THE TENNIS PARTNER FACING OUR MORALITY: THE VIRTUE OF A COMMON LIFE

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