Is it 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 Dickenson
Aequanimitas / Sir William Osler
The curse of Eve / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Misery ; A doctor's visit / Anton Chekhov
"Out, out--" / Robert Frost
Excerpt from "The summing up" / W. Somerset Maugham
The practice ; The artist ; Between walls ; Le medecin malgre lui ; The birth ; The last words of my English grandmother ; The girl with a pimply face ; The use of force / William Carlos Williams
A country doctor / Franz Kafka
Patient-physician communication / Dana Atchley
Medicine: the art and the science / Herrman Blumgart
What is a profession? / Earle P. Scarlett
The immortals / Jorge Luis Borges
Indian camp / Ernest Hemingway
A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps
Larynx / Pablo Neruda
Human care / C.P. Snow
Before the anaesthetic, or real fright / Sir John Betjeman
The art of healing ; Musee des beaux arts / W.H. Auden
On becoming a clinician / Paul B. Beeson
A worn path / Eudora Welty.
"The doctor who sits at the bedside of a rat" ; Sheep / Josephine Miles
What is a clinician and what does he do? / Philip A. Tumulty
Excerpt 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
To be a doctor / Felix Marti-Ibanez
Washing your feet
John Ciardi
The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks
Faith healing / Philip Larkin
Saba / Ferrol Sams
A correct compassion / James Kirkup
X-ray ; Case history ; Tuberculosis ; The stethoscope / 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 ; Imelda / Richard Selzer
The last decision / Maya Angelou
A day in the life of an internist / Richard C. Reynolds
Excerpt from The call of stories medical ethics and living a life / Robert Coles
Little elegy: for a child who skipped rope / X.J. Kennedy
The chart of the novel / 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 ; Ethics / Linda Pastan
The house officer's changing world / Joseph Hardison
On embalming / Frank Gonzales-Crussi.
Gaudeamus igitur ; Death / John Stone
The lost baby poem / Lucille Clifton
Don't touch the heart / Lawrence K. Altman
The autopsy room ; My death / Raymond Carver
The woman who could not live with her faulty heart / Margaret Atwood