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Slave doctors ... free doctors / Plato -- from Utopia / Thomas More -- from Letter to Dr. Edward Jenner / Thomas Jefferson -- excerpt from Evolution of modern medicine / William Osler -- excerpt from Les Miserables / Victor Hugo -- from Story of San Michele / Axel Munthe -- Last words / J.P. Featherstone -- from Arrowsmith / Sinclair Lewis -- Towards the splendid city / Pablo Neruda -- Brute / Richard Selzer -- Laundry / Susan Onthank Mates -- Great Man / Frank O'Connor -- from Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain -- Death in the open / Lewis Thomas -- Favorite charity that won't accept donations / Abigail Zuger -- from Pierre Curie / Marie Curie -- Doctor's visit / Anton Chekhov -- Blight on society / Marie Sheppard Williams -- Sick child / Henook-Makhewe-Kelenaka -- Mrs. Cassidy's last year / Mary Gordon -- People like that are the only people here / Lorrie Moore -- Small, good thing / Raymond Carver -- Strong horse tea / Alice Walker -- Indian camp / Ernest Hemingway -- from Diving bell and the butterfly, bathtime / Jean-Dominique Bauby -- Lost mariner / Oliver Sacks -- Good doctor / Susan Onthank Mates -- Okay, so I'm in this bed / Tony Gramaglia -- Cowpath to America / Abraham Verghese -- On not winning the Nobel Prize / Doris Lessing -- from White castle / Orhan Pamuk -- from Cancer ward / Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- from Whole new life, an illness and a healing / Reynolds Price -- Defining a doctor, with a tear, a shrug and a schedule / Abigail Zuger -- Masque of the red death / Edgar Allan Poe -- Dr. Heidegger's experiment / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula Le Guin. |
