The Last Half Hour of the Day: An Anthology of Stories and Essays That Have Inspired

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ISBN: 9781934465097 | 1934465097
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/1/2008

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This unique collection of short stories and essays sheds light on the many events physicians encounter daily, from grappling with an ethical dilemma to witnessing a patient's miraculous recovery to coming to grips with one's own illness.

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Introduction	p. xiii
Achievements
Slave Doctors...Free Doctors	p. 3
from Utopia	p. 4
from Letter to Dr. Edward Jenner	p. 5
from The Evolution of Modern Medicine	p. 6
from Les Miserables	p. 8
from The Story of San Michele	p. 10
Last Words	p. 13
from Arrowsmith	p. 29
Towards the Splendid City	p. 31
Discoveries
Brute	p. 41
Laundry	p. 45
A Great Man	p. 50
from Life On The Mississippi	p. 59
Death in the Open	p. 61
A Favorite Charity That Won't Accept Donations	p. 64
from Pierre Curie	p. 66
A Doctor's Visit	p. 68
A Blight on Society	p. 79
Calamities
The Sick Child	p. 93
Mrs. Cassidy's Last Year	p. 96
People Like That Are the Only People Here	p. 105
A Small, Good Thing	p. 134
Strong Horse Tea	p. 156
Indian Camp	p. 163
from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Bathtime	p. 168
The Lost Mariner	p. 170
Victories
The Good Doctor	p. 189
Okay, So I'm in This Bed	p. 199
Cowpath to America	p. 201
On Not Winning the Nobel Prize	p. 217
from White Castle	p. 229
from Cancer Ward	p. 231
from A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing	p. 245
Defining a Doctor, With a Tear, a Shrug and a Schedule	p. 255
Pure Fancy
The Masque of the Red Death	p. 261
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment	p. 266
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	p. 275
Biographical Sketches	p. 281
Permissions	p. 287
About the Editors	p. 290
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The Last Half Hour of the Day: An Anthology of Stories and Essays That Have Inspired

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