Contents
Part One: White Coat Standard Advice The Doctor Readies The Breathing Tube The Death of Leo Emberson, November 2006 The Death of Josie Letter to Leo Terminus Pain Campanology Curing Blindness Ten thoughts before the stroke Before (Doctor Monologue) After (Patient Monologue) Penny has Parkinson's Old Anatomy Textbooks Prescription Pad On Conducting Complete Physicals Testing 1, 2, 3 The Test Inside the Examining Room Love Squawks Through Technology Christ Child in the Incubator The Missed Appointment On-Call Song: To My Wife Reading Electrocardiograms Love Poem For the Doctor's Wife Love Poem For The Doctor's Wife Revisited The heart is statutory Ode to Stealth Part Two: Black Bag Song of the Most Responsible Physician Irony is the Wrong Diagnosis Dr. Grinch Fairygodmother, MD The Doctor Will See You Now Secrets my Stethoscope Told Me The dugouts of misery No ill effects Why we suffer: a conversation My Illness My Illness, revisited Taking charts home after work The law of gravity Reading H. L. Mencken How Doctors Think
