On doctor[i]ng: stories, poems, essays

It is still a privilege to be a doctor / Carola Eisenberg

Naaman cured of leprosy, 2 Kings 5:1-14 : Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach) 30:14-17 : Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach) 38:1-15 / The Bible

Death be not proud / John Donne

This living hand, now warm and capable / John Keats

The stethoscope song / Oliver Wendell Holmes

There's been a death ; Surgeons must be very careful ; I heard a fly buzz ; "Hope" is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson

Aphorisms / Sir William Osler

The curse of Eve / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Misery ; A doctor's visit / Anton Chekhov

"Out, out

" /

Robert Frost

from The summing up / W. Somerset Maugham

The practice ; The artist ; Between walls ; Le médecin malgré lui ; The birth ; The last words of my English grandmother ; The girl with the pimply face ; The use of force / William Carlos Williams

A country doctor / Franz Kafka

The watch / Frances Cornford

The immortals / Jorge Luis Borges

Indian camp ; Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway

A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps

My most humiliating Jim Crow experience / Zora Neale Hurston

Larynx / Pablo Neruda

Before the anaesthetic, or A real fright / Sir John Betjeman

Musée des beaux arts ; The art of healing / W.H. Auden

A worn path / Eudora Welty

The doctor who sits at the bedside of a rat sheep / Josephine Miles

from A few green leaves / Barbara Pym

Glaucoma / Edward Lowbury

House calls ; Leech leech, et cetera / Lewis Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas

Next day / Randall Jarrell

Washing your feet / John Ciardi

The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks

Coming into the end zone / Doris Grumbach

Doctor, talk to me / Anatole Broyard

Faith healing / Philip Larkin

Saba / Ferrol Sams

Fortitude / Kurt Vonnegut

A man told me the story of his life / Grace Paley

A correct compassion / James Kirkup

X-ray ; Case history ; Carnal knowledge / Dannie Abse

Diabetes ; The cancer match / James Dickey

Talking to grief ; Death psalm : O Lord of mysteries / Denise Levertov

Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor

A deathplace / L.E. Sissman

Mercy ; Imela / Richard Selzer

The last decision / Maya Angelou

A day in the life of an internist / Richard C. Reynolds

from The call of stories / Robert Coles

Medical ethics and living a life / Robert Coles

Little elegy : for a child who skipped rope / X.J. Kennedy

Auden and the liposome / Gerald Weissmann

Going ; A day in the death / Miller Williams

One more time / Patricia Goedicke

The appointment / L.J. Schneiderman

The five stages of grief ; Notes from the delivery room ; Remission / Linda Pastan

The house officer's changing world / Joseph Hardison

On embalming / Frank Gonzales-Crussi

Gaudeamus igitur ; Death / John Stone

the lost baby poem ; poem to my uterus / Lucille Clifton

Death of bed / Ghassan Kanafani

Don't touch the heart / Lawrence K. Altman

What the doctor said ; My death / Raymond Carver

The woman who could not live with her faulty heart / Margaret Atwood

35/10 ; Miscarriage / Sharon Olds

The knitted glove ; Good news / Jack Coulehan

On the subject of doctors / James Tate

Medicine / Alice Walker

Mistakes / David Hilfiker

The dawn of wonder / Melvin Konner

Let's talk about it / David Rinaldi

What hell is / Heather McHugh

Suffering / Ronald Valdiserri

Touching / David Hellerstein

from My own country / Abraham Verghese

Invasions / Perri Klass

Hospital sketchbook : life on the ward through an intern's eyes / Elspeth Cameron Ritchie

The son : returning home / Jon Mukand

We are nighttime travelers / Ethan Canin.