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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Campo, Rafael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.