Writer, M.D.: The Best Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction by Doctors
Autor Leah Kaminskyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2011
• Abraham Verghese, on the lost art of the physical exam
• Pauline Chen, on the bond between a med student and her first cadaver
• Atul Gawande, on the ethical dilemmas of a young surgical intern
• Danielle Ofri, on the devastation of losing a patient
• Ethan Canin, on love, poetry, and growing old
These essays and stories illuminate the inner lives of men and women who deal with trauma, illness, mortality, and grief on a daily basis. Read together, they provide a candid, moving, one-of-a-kind glimpse behind the doctor’s mask.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780307946867
ISBN-10: 030794686X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 130 x 201 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Vintage Publishing
ISBN-10: 030794686X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 130 x 201 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Vintage Publishing
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Notă biografică
Leah Kaminsky is an award-winning writer and a practicing family physician. She is the author of four books, including Stitching Things Together, a collection of poetry. She has studied writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, New York University, and Vermont College of Fine Arts, and is currently at work on her first novel. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Extras
Foreword
by Jerome Groopman
A physician works at the border between science and the soul. Schooled in physiology and pharmacology, the molecular workings of genes and proteins, the biochemistry of health and disease, a doctor brings to care a diverse body of expert knowledge. That knowledge is rapidly expanding with the use of sophisticated technologies such as genomics that map mutations in our DNA, and MRI scans that reveal millimetre abnormalities in our inner organs. This wealth of information has changed the nature of diagnosis and treatment, bringing many maladies under the bright light of science, illuminating their genesis, and providing a rational basis for their remedy.
But what has not changed over the millennia is the human soul. The role of the physician as healer has not been fundamentally altered by his burgeoning knowledge. Greater knowledge does not necessarily translate into greater wisdom. Wisdom requires melding information with judgement and values. The wise doctor probes not only the organs of his patient but also his feelings and emotions, his fears and his hopes, his regrets and his goals. And to accomplish that most important task of applying wisdom, the physician also needs to take his own emotional temperature, to realise how his own beliefs and biases may be brought to bear in his efforts to secure a better future for his patient.
This remarkable collection melds science and the soul, logic with feeling, knowledge with wisdom. The voices that the reader hears are among the most prominent in the constellation of physician–writers. What makes these writers so compelling is not only the fluidity of their prose and the intensity of their focus, not only their literary and narrative skills, but also their remarkable degree of self-awareness. A physician is trained in medical school and residency to hide his feelings and filter his thoughts. This training is required in order to effectively deliver care in an environment that is often chaotic and unnerving. The doctor needs to present himself to the patient as a safe harbour of stability in the midst of the tempest of illness. But when that doctor has moved from the clinic to the page, the mask drops, and we see the turmoil and tribulations in his heart and mind. The humanity of both patient and physician is what makes the stories that follow so rich and so fulfilling.
Introduction
by Leah Kaminsky
When I first became a medical student, many years ago, I developed a condition I call Tunnel Vision of the Soul. It is a crippling ailment in which you see only things that are straight in front of you. You focus on the sickness, and don’t see the sick person. Your peripheral vision is blurred, so that you don’t notice your surroundings, with all their inherent colours, nuances, and possibilities, unless you deliberately turn your head to look. The onset can be insidious, the symptoms barely perceptible at first.
Spending lunchtimes in the anatomy museum, surrounded by dissections under glass, it never occurred to me that what lay exposed was the pelvis of someone’s mother, or the foot of somebody’s brother. I munched on chicken sandwiches, busily memorising mnemonics: Swiftly Lower Tilley’s Pants To Try Coitus There, for the bones of the wrist; Grandpa Shagging Grandma’s Love Child, for the top layers of the skin.
After six years as a medical student, practising rectal examinations on old men who had become paralysed following a stroke, performing bone-marrow biopsies on dying little old ladies, and shoving needles into the spines of crying babies, I emerged almost totally desensitised to human pain and suffering. My fortnightly salary cheques were based on the fact that other people fell ill, or died. And as a cocky young intern, proudly wearing my long, white coat while strolling through the wards of a large teaching hospital, I felt impermeable.
The cure for my tunnel vision came gradually. I started reading literature, which coaxed me to return to writing—something I hadn’t done since high school. With my trembling pen, I began to heal my own wounds and try to make some sort of sense of what I had experienced as a young doctor and as a human being.
Since that time, my medicine has always fed and informed my writing. But, more importantly, my writing has hopefully made me a better doctor. Becoming a writer has opened my eyes, so that I am able to see my patients as human beings, each one with their very own story to tell. And nowadays, I hope that I am able to listen to their hearts—with both my stethoscope and my pen poised.
Writer, M.D. is a collection of stories—fiction and non-fiction—that aims to look behind the doctor’s mask. What goes on inside the mind of the human being who deals with enormous existential issues and traumatic situations on a daily basis? It is through writing that many doctors have plumbed the depths and richness of their experience and, in turn, used this to explore their patients’ inner lives.
These stories canvass emotional experiences acutely felt by doctors—an awareness of our mortality, of how humanity interplays with medicine, of the weight of responsibility carried by the profession. The fiction pieces, in particular, often use the point of view of the patient to examine a range of issues, including grief, trauma, illness, and ageing.
The public is hungry to see behind the veneer of the medical professional, as evidenced by the burgeoning number of TV shows such as ER and Grey’s Anatomy. This book delves beyond sensationalism, taking a critical look at doctors’ close observations of, and reflections upon, their working lives.
Physician-writers have a long tradition. Apollo managed to combine a dual career as the Greek god of both poetry and medicine. Copernicus, Maimonides, Bulgakov, and Chekhov were all physicians who purloined their patients’ narratives. In this anthology, I hope the reader will be afforded a glimpse of the world through the eyes of some of our best contemporary doctor–writers. Every patient has a story to tell, if only you take the time to listen.
by Jerome Groopman
A physician works at the border between science and the soul. Schooled in physiology and pharmacology, the molecular workings of genes and proteins, the biochemistry of health and disease, a doctor brings to care a diverse body of expert knowledge. That knowledge is rapidly expanding with the use of sophisticated technologies such as genomics that map mutations in our DNA, and MRI scans that reveal millimetre abnormalities in our inner organs. This wealth of information has changed the nature of diagnosis and treatment, bringing many maladies under the bright light of science, illuminating their genesis, and providing a rational basis for their remedy.
But what has not changed over the millennia is the human soul. The role of the physician as healer has not been fundamentally altered by his burgeoning knowledge. Greater knowledge does not necessarily translate into greater wisdom. Wisdom requires melding information with judgement and values. The wise doctor probes not only the organs of his patient but also his feelings and emotions, his fears and his hopes, his regrets and his goals. And to accomplish that most important task of applying wisdom, the physician also needs to take his own emotional temperature, to realise how his own beliefs and biases may be brought to bear in his efforts to secure a better future for his patient.
This remarkable collection melds science and the soul, logic with feeling, knowledge with wisdom. The voices that the reader hears are among the most prominent in the constellation of physician–writers. What makes these writers so compelling is not only the fluidity of their prose and the intensity of their focus, not only their literary and narrative skills, but also their remarkable degree of self-awareness. A physician is trained in medical school and residency to hide his feelings and filter his thoughts. This training is required in order to effectively deliver care in an environment that is often chaotic and unnerving. The doctor needs to present himself to the patient as a safe harbour of stability in the midst of the tempest of illness. But when that doctor has moved from the clinic to the page, the mask drops, and we see the turmoil and tribulations in his heart and mind. The humanity of both patient and physician is what makes the stories that follow so rich and so fulfilling.
Introduction
by Leah Kaminsky
When I first became a medical student, many years ago, I developed a condition I call Tunnel Vision of the Soul. It is a crippling ailment in which you see only things that are straight in front of you. You focus on the sickness, and don’t see the sick person. Your peripheral vision is blurred, so that you don’t notice your surroundings, with all their inherent colours, nuances, and possibilities, unless you deliberately turn your head to look. The onset can be insidious, the symptoms barely perceptible at first.
Spending lunchtimes in the anatomy museum, surrounded by dissections under glass, it never occurred to me that what lay exposed was the pelvis of someone’s mother, or the foot of somebody’s brother. I munched on chicken sandwiches, busily memorising mnemonics: Swiftly Lower Tilley’s Pants To Try Coitus There, for the bones of the wrist; Grandpa Shagging Grandma’s Love Child, for the top layers of the skin.
After six years as a medical student, practising rectal examinations on old men who had become paralysed following a stroke, performing bone-marrow biopsies on dying little old ladies, and shoving needles into the spines of crying babies, I emerged almost totally desensitised to human pain and suffering. My fortnightly salary cheques were based on the fact that other people fell ill, or died. And as a cocky young intern, proudly wearing my long, white coat while strolling through the wards of a large teaching hospital, I felt impermeable.
The cure for my tunnel vision came gradually. I started reading literature, which coaxed me to return to writing—something I hadn’t done since high school. With my trembling pen, I began to heal my own wounds and try to make some sort of sense of what I had experienced as a young doctor and as a human being.
Since that time, my medicine has always fed and informed my writing. But, more importantly, my writing has hopefully made me a better doctor. Becoming a writer has opened my eyes, so that I am able to see my patients as human beings, each one with their very own story to tell. And nowadays, I hope that I am able to listen to their hearts—with both my stethoscope and my pen poised.
Writer, M.D. is a collection of stories—fiction and non-fiction—that aims to look behind the doctor’s mask. What goes on inside the mind of the human being who deals with enormous existential issues and traumatic situations on a daily basis? It is through writing that many doctors have plumbed the depths and richness of their experience and, in turn, used this to explore their patients’ inner lives.
These stories canvass emotional experiences acutely felt by doctors—an awareness of our mortality, of how humanity interplays with medicine, of the weight of responsibility carried by the profession. The fiction pieces, in particular, often use the point of view of the patient to examine a range of issues, including grief, trauma, illness, and ageing.
The public is hungry to see behind the veneer of the medical professional, as evidenced by the burgeoning number of TV shows such as ER and Grey’s Anatomy. This book delves beyond sensationalism, taking a critical look at doctors’ close observations of, and reflections upon, their working lives.
Physician-writers have a long tradition. Apollo managed to combine a dual career as the Greek god of both poetry and medicine. Copernicus, Maimonides, Bulgakov, and Chekhov were all physicians who purloined their patients’ narratives. In this anthology, I hope the reader will be afforded a glimpse of the world through the eyes of some of our best contemporary doctor–writers. Every patient has a story to tell, if only you take the time to listen.
Recenzii
“This is a book for doctors and patients—that is, the lot of us—to relish.”
—Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler’s Ark
—Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler’s Ark
Cuprins
Foreword by Jerome Groopman
Introduction by Leah Kaminsky
NONFICTION
Bedside Manners by Abraham Verghese
Index Case by Perri Klass
Resurrectionist by Pauline W. Chen
Intensive Care by Danielle Ofri
Falling Down by Sandeep Jauhar
Beauty by Gabriel Weston
Do Not Go Gentle by Irvin Yalom
The Lost Mariner by Oliver Sacks
The Learning Curve by Atul Gawande
The Infernal Chorus by Robert Jay Lifton
FICTION
We Are Nighttime Travelers by Ethan Canin
Dog 1, Dog 2 by Nick Earls
The Duty to Die Cheaply by Peter Goldsworthy
Finding Joshua by Jacinta Halloran
Tahirih by Leah Kaminsky
Communion by John Murray
Introduction by Leah Kaminsky
NONFICTION
Bedside Manners by Abraham Verghese
Index Case by Perri Klass
Resurrectionist by Pauline W. Chen
Intensive Care by Danielle Ofri
Falling Down by Sandeep Jauhar
Beauty by Gabriel Weston
Do Not Go Gentle by Irvin Yalom
The Lost Mariner by Oliver Sacks
The Learning Curve by Atul Gawande
The Infernal Chorus by Robert Jay Lifton
FICTION
We Are Nighttime Travelers by Ethan Canin
Dog 1, Dog 2 by Nick Earls
The Duty to Die Cheaply by Peter Goldsworthy
Finding Joshua by Jacinta Halloran
Tahirih by Leah Kaminsky
Communion by John Murray
Descriere
With contributions from such physician-writers as Oliver Sacks, Abraham Verghese, and Pauline Chen, this is a unique and eye-opening collection of fiction and nonfiction on medicine and mortality and everything in between.