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Author Watts, H. David.

Title The orange wire problem and other tales from the doctor's office [electronic resource] / David Watts.

Imprint Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2009.

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Description xvii, 186 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Preface: what you might expect to find here -- Facts and lies -- The orange wire problem -- Brain damage -- Let eagles come -- The chart in the window -- Thank you Mr. Nicholson -- Talking about Christmas -- Silence knows the right questions -- One cancer cell -- Anathema -- Telling the truth in the realm of truth -- Ghosts in the machine -- Blood butterfly -- Is something wrong with your prostate? -- The soft animal of the body -- Aspirin and beauty -- Notes from the center of a perpetual breakdown -- Ready for anything -- A critical distance -- The way we know what we know -- Third opinion -- Hanna's volvulus -- The case of the missing molecule -- The pill on the shelf -- Mother Teresa and the problem of care -- The doctor's pill -- Afterword: brilliance.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Physician and patient -- Anecdotes.
Medicine -- Anecdotes.
Physicians -- Anecdotes.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 1587298007 (pbk. alk. paper)
9781587298004
9781587298493 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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