Human Voices Wake Us
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Human Voices Wake Us

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Human Voices Wake Us

About this book

Patients and physicians are adrift in this era of rapidly changing medical paradigms. Perhaps it has always been so, though it seems that lately the dissatisfaction on both sides has intensified.

Doctors today are struggling: debt, divorce, substance abuse, burnout, suicide. They succeed or fail on professional treadmills; patient encounters measured out with coffee spoons. The doctor patient relationship is crumbling. Bureaucratic and corporate masters make their never-ending arguments of insidious intent. The overwhelming questions: Now where to turn? How do physiciansā€” and their patientsā€”avoid being crushed by the demands of science, of perfection, of expectations? How do we recover the awe we once felt in this world in which we expend our life force every day? How can we find joy once more?

Human Voices Wake Us is a plea, a prayer, a path for caregivers and patients, for all of us who struggle in difficult circumstances for understanding, enlightenment, and healing. This book is a treatise on the importance of self-reflection, attentiveness to our own inner voice and needs, as well as to those who are struggling with illness, age, infirmity, and loss. It is a call to nurture our idealism: that solid foundation grounding empathic responsiveness and our own humanity.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction
  7. First Do No Harm
  8. The Emu in the Graveyard
  9. Vigil, 1958
  10. Forest Hills Park, Spring 1994
  11. Pawn Shop Dreams
  12. Are Butterflies Birds?
  13. Taos, 4 July, 2100 Hours
  14. A Denunciation of Quarks
  15. Blown Pupil
  16. There
  17. The Breast Exam
  18. Low Water Crossing
  19. This Sadness
  20. To the Medical Student Who Jumped From the Roof of the Hospital
  21. Happiness Is Genetic Too
  22. Out of Practice
  23. Non-Stop Flight
  24. Gardeners
  25. Common Texas Grassesā€”A Guide
  26. Shock and Awe in Comfort, Texas
  27. What I Remember of Embryology
  28. B-Ball Lament
  29. What Mickā€™s Got
  30. On Slipping Through Terminal 1, Concourse C at Oā€™Hare
  31. The Teens For Christ Convention At the Holiday Inn
  32. Flu Season
  33. The Whistler
  34. What We Said
  35. Triage
  36. Letting It Go
  37. A Sigh on Rounds
  38. Discharges
  39. Sherbet
  40. Clinic
  41. Side Show
  42. Hometown Girl
  43. Raising Money for Medical Bills
  44. The Tyranny of Aging
  45. Redbud
  46. Blue Period
  47. Moon Over Twin Sisters Peak
  48. Dragonfly
  49. Mowing
  50. Red Oak
  51. Free Range
  52. Feeding the Fish
  53. Plastic Caskets
  54. Goshawk
  55. Perseids
  56. Dark Side
  57. A Paper Anniversary at 52
  58. Blue Norther
  59. The Day It Came In
  60. Overwinter
  61. Auscultation
  62. Acknowledgments and Permissions