Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience Poems of the Medical Training Experience

Name: Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience Poems of the Medical Training Experience
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ISBN: 9781929918867

ISBN-10: 1929918860

ISBN-13: 9781929918867

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stephanie Brown Clark, Dagan Coppock, Neeta Jain

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In Body Language physicians and medical students chronicle their challenging, often harrowing experiences. The anthology is broken into six sections: Medical Student, First Year; Second Year; Clinical Years; Intern; Resident; and Attending. Other anthologies have featured poems about medicine and healthcare, but the approach of this collection-poems written by doctors-in-training proceeding step-by-step through the medical training experience-is unique in medical literature. By presenting physicians who are also skilled poets addressing a diverse range of medical situations, Body Language offers fascinating insights into the inner world of people who regularly face life-and-death…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
Publication date: 11/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 159
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Introduction



Medical Student, First Year


Where I Left Off



Happenstance



Smoke, Going



Still Life in Number Seven



The Shaman's Apprentice



Picture This



Anatomy Brain Wash



Anatomy Lab



Exposed (to her cadaver)



Apparition



Twice a Day After Meals



Hungry



A Final Memo to Dr. Carlo Urbani



Desktop Daydream



Bruce's Prescription



Light from Dark



Thursday



Ducks



Medical Student, Second Year


Medical School Lovers



C-Section



Pathologic Vistas



Thoughts After First Visit to the Nursery



Learning the Shapes



I Ask



Falling Through



Pandora



Medical Student, Clinical Years


Brueghel at Bellevue



Spirit of Mania



Reflections on Spring Becoming



Foley



Call Room



The Breast



Signs



First Suture



My Classic Psych Patient



Mary Fletcher Hospital, 1958



Fishing



Topsy-Turvy



5 A.M. poem



Patience, for M.S.



A Day in the Life



When the Blood Fell Short of Her Toes



Inside Out



Teamwork



Surgery Rotation



Heal Me, Doctor



NG Tube



Catching Comprehension



Unnameable Galaxies



The Doghouse



Tumor, for R.R.



Still Life



Intern


Internship in Seattle



Q4: The Call Cycle



Intensive Care



First Night On Call, Coronary Care Unit



The Hotseat



Deathbeds



Toxic Environment



Lady Morphine



On Call, 3 A.M.



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Resident


January Thaw



Haiku of Residency



Sick



MAO



Gratitude



October 1st



Red Hill Is Dissolving



Doing Time



County Trauma



Attending


Cases



Stolen Kisses



Breast Exams



How Will They Take Me



Skin



Loving, Meticulously



Holding



The Recovery Room Veteran



He Still Whistles



Today's List of Denials



The Anatomy of the Hand



Solstice



Catching Up



Any Calcification



Bedside Rounds



The Portugal Laurel



Thirst



Long Sentence



Your Last Patient



Auscultation



Afterword



Acknowledgments


Contributors Notes


About the Editors


Colophon