The orange wire problem and other tales from the doctor's office / David Watts.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Watts, H. David.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvii, 186 p.

Table of 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.