Comfort Measures Only : New and Selected Poems, 1994-2016 /
Gathered from Rafael Campo's over twenty year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-eight poems--thirty of which have never been previously published in a collection--pull back the curtain in the ER, laying bare our pain and joining us all in spellbinding moments of pathos.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Introduction: illness as muse
- From the other man was me
- El curandero
- From song for my lover
- Aida
- The test
- Allegory
- Age 5 born with aids
- Technology and medicine
- The distant moon
- Finally
- From what the body told
- Route 17
- Prescription
- The good doctor
- Patients, and another
- Lost in the hospital
- My voice
- El día de los muertos
- What the body told
- From diva
- The pelvic exam
- The gift of aids
- The abdominal exam
- From the changing face of aids
- A death perplexing
- My reasoning
- Recognition
- The mental status exam
- Last rites
- From landscape with human figure
- The couple
- On christmas eve
- The four humours
- From afraid of the dark
- What i would give
- From the enemy
- From eighteen days in France
- You bring out the doctor in me
- Tuesday morning
- Arriving
- Absolution
- On doctoring
- Sick day
- From alternative medicine
- Calendar
- The common mental health disorders of immigrants
- Heart grow fonder
- The reading
- Health
- Hospital song
- Faith healing
- Iatrogenic
- The third step in obtaining an arterial blood gas
- For all the freaks of the world
- Recent past events
- Band of gold
- Primary care
- Nude
- Not untrue
- On the wards
- Alternative medicine
- Without my white coat
- The performance
- What the dead see
- New poems
- Incidental finding
- As we die
- Hospital writing workshop
- Doctors lie, may hide mistakes?
- Comfort measures only
- The chart
- Eden
- Complaint
- Morbidity and mortality rounds
- Diagnosis code
- Ancient mythologies of healing
- Treponema pallidum
- Just know your shit
- Hippocratic oath 2.0
- On the beauty of science
- Poem for ebola
- Invaders
- Metastatic colon cancer
- Cardiology
- I imagine again I don't let you die
- Swim for life
- Your poems are never joyful
- Addiction
- Post-emergency
- Lessons not learned during medical training
- Quatrains from the clinic
- End of life discussion
- The pond
- Hospice rounds
- Ghazal: by the sea
- The stethoscope replies.