Literature and Medicine

III.             Professionalism

Chapter Three: Literature and Professionalism in Medicine. 

Ø  Vignette-discussion of an excerpt from "Playing God" by Dr. Michael

            LaCombe;

Ø  Dr. Richard Selzer, "Imelda";

Ø  Associated poem, Dr, Audrey Shafer, "Monday Morning"

 

IV.             Building the Patient-Provider Relationship

Chapter Four: Rapport and Empathy in Medicine. 

Ø  Vignette, "An Elderly African-American Patient" (excerpt from The Chief

                        Concern);

Ø  Dr. Anton Chekhov, "A Doctor's Visit";Ø  Associated poem, Dr. John Stone, "He Makes a House Call"



 

Chapter Five: Listening to Patients. 

Ø  Vignette, "Young Mother with Abdominal Pain" (excerpt from The Chief Concern);

Ø  James Joyce, "Araby";

Ø  Associated poem, Dr. William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow"

 

Chapter Six: The Patient.  

Ø  Vignette, excerpt from The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde;

Ø  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper";

Ø  Associated poem, Dr. Raphael Campo, "The Couple"

 

Chapter Seven: The Doctor.   

Ø  Vignette, excerpt from Black Man in a White Coat by Dr. Damon Tweedy; Ø  Vignette-discussion of an excerpt from "Diagnosis" by Dr. Michael LaCombe;



Ø  Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Lynching of Jube Benson";

Ø  Associated poem, Traditional Spiritual, "Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child"

 

V.          Everyday Ethics of Medical Practices

Chapter Eight: Everyday Ethics of Medical Practices.  Ø  Vignette, "The Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis" (excerpt from



            The Chief Concern); Ø  Anton Chekhov, "Enemies";



Ø  Associated poem, William Blake, "A Poison Tree"   

 

VI.       Vicarious Experiences

Chapter Nine: Culture.

Ø  Vignette, "The Patient's Chief Concern" (excerpt from The Chief Concern);

Ø  Demetria Martinez, "The Annunciation: Lupe";

Ø  Associated poem, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, "Making Tortillas"

 

         Chapter Ten: Sexual and Domestic Abuse. 

Ø  Vignette, "You Don't Deserve This" by Dr. Jerry Vannatta;

Ø  Edgar Allan Poe, "Berenice";

Ø  Associated poem, W. B. Yeats, "Leda and the Swan"

 

         Chapter Eleven: Pain. 

Ø  Vignette, excerpt from Inside Chronic Pain: An Intimate and Critical Account by            Lous Heshusius;



Ø  Herman Melville, "The Operation" from White Jacket;

Ø  Associated poem, Emily Dickinson, "Pain has an Element of Blank"

 

         Chapter Twelve: Ageing. 

Ø  Vignette, "Treating a Very Old Woman" by Dr.  Jerry Vannatta;

Ø  Nathaniel Hawthorne, a chapter from House of Seven Gables;

Ø  Associated poem, Thomas Hardy, "I Look into my Glass"

 

VII.    Mistakes in Medicine

Chapter Thirteen: Mistakes in Medicine. 

Ø  Vignette, "Mistake" by Dr. Jerry Vannatta;

Ø  Gustav Flaubert, a chapter from Madame Bovary;

Ø  Associated poem, Dr, Dannie Abse, "In the Theatre"

 

VIII.           Death and Dying

Chapter Fourteen: Death and Dying.   

Ø  Vignette, "The Good Death" by Dr. Jerry Vannatta;

Ø  Vignette, "Frenzy Facing Death" by Dr. Jerry Vannatta;

Ø  Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych;

Ø  Associated poem, John Donne, "Death Be Not Proud"

 

IX.    Postscript: The Fulfillments of Healthcare

       Chapter Fifteen: Afterword

Ø  Associated poem, Derek Mahon, "Everything is Going to be All Right"

 

 

Part Two: Appendices

 

Appendix 1: Experimental Results: The Cognitive Science of Literary Reading

Appendix 2: Discussion Questions for the Chapters             

Appendix 3: Questions for Daily Writing

Appendix 4: Guide for Discussing Diagnosis and Diagnosis Errors (Chapter 2)

Appendix 5: Casey Hester, MD., Jerry Vannatta, MD, and Ronald Schleifer, PhD, "Medical Professionalism: Using Literary Narrative to Explore and Evaluate Medical Professionalism," an essay which includes "the Elements of Genres of Narrative" (Chapter 3)

Appendix 6: Ronald Schleifer and Jerry Vannatta, "Teaching Hemingway to Medical Students" (Chapter 5)