Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • How to use this book
  • Nancy Mairs
  • My story
  • Classic example
  • Teaching hospital
  • Signing on
  • Teresa Richards
  • Hip replacements
  • Choosing a doctor
  • Richard Selzer
  • Night train
  • Squatters
  • Tulip phobia
  • Mary Swander
  • Open reduction
  • Alternative route
  • Faye Moskowitz
  • Checkup
  • Telephone matter
  • Arthur Frank
  • 15-second connection
  • Drunk driving
  • Manners
  • This pseudo thing
  • Marva Dawn
  • Postdoctoral training
  • He wouldn't let it go
  • Trust me I'm a patient
  • It would help me if ...
  • Best medicine
  • Color red
  • Richard Solly
  • Assumptions
  • Taking chances
  • Tinkering
  • Learning to look
  • Laura Evans
  • Wrong chart
  • Living for mail
  • Plastic hugs
  • Jane Smiley
  • Whose illness is it anyway?
  • Michael Gearin-Tosh
  • Physician-assisted suicide
  • Evidence-based medicine!
  • Cancer doctors
  • Emily Douglas
  • Intuitive trust
  • Making a list
  • Whole truth
  • Hard to hear
  • Steve Kuusisto
  • Eye doctors I have known
  • Disability disconnect
  • Christina Middlebrook
  • Look at me
  • Life can't be fixed
  • Witness
  • Right lingo
  • You can't do everything
  • Real person
  • Other side
  • Shoulder hugs
  • Olivers Sacks
  • Alienation
  • Hysteria
  • Uneventful recovery
  • Feeling for the organism
  • Richard McCann
  • Stamped
  • Primary care physician
  • Why patients can't talk to doctors
  • Maneuvering
  • My body, my story
  • Andie Dominick
  • What this patient wants
  • Sekou Sundiata
  • Educated decision
  • What's shakin'?
  • Seeing patients
  • Asking questions
  • Good idea
  • Breaking the ice
  • Speaking their language
  • Talking about a feeling
  • Different narratives
  • Natalie Kusz
  • Nostalgia
  • Fat
  • It's brilliant
  • Fitzhugh Mullan
  • Taking responsibility
  • In it together
  • Being a great case
  • Try to remember
  • John Hull
  • Objective detachment
  • It finally registered
  • Under local
  • Tracy Thompson
  • Raving
  • Difference
  • Problem patient
  • Assembly line
  • Nut case
  • Dating service
  • Border crossing
  • Tom Sleigh
  • Nightmare
  • Good, the bad, and the clueless
  • Special case
  • Different languages
  • Somebody like me
  • Louise DeSalvo
  • Self-prescribing
  • Story to tell.