Complete Physical
by Neilson, ShaneFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-06-01
Publisher(s): Utp Distribution
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Summary
Complete Physicalwill appeal to physicians and patients alike, which includes most of the multitude. Doctors can read the book and sympathize with its complaints; patients can read it and know the mind of their doctor better.
Table of Contents
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
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Excerpts
On Conducting Complete Physicals
If love were a diagnosis,
I would chase it in a field of MRI machines
gone all blinky from delirium,
magnets gone randy.
If the insurance form said, Check all that apply:
Love, Lovesickness, Jealousy, Possessiveness,
all of it would be insurable in bouquets and chocolates.
If love were my diagnostic quarry
I'd hunt it like Cupid,
readying my quiver: Have you ever been in love?
With a Yes answer there would be a ritual cigar;
with No, a glass of bourbon.
It seems to me a more pertinent question
than the latest burp or cough.
But if there was a diagnosis,
and it was love,
would I order an unlovely blood test
to confirm, would I measure love's telltale bump
with my hands, remarking on colour, border, size,
and consistency?
There would have to be a treatment for love.
What would it be?
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