The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine

Index

Essays
"Gut Feelings" by Robert S. Rosson, M.D.
Memories of Milton C. Winternitz
"Notes from a Healer" by Brian T. Maurer
Nursing: Do You See What I See
Nursing: Telling Our Stories
Nursing: Telling Our Stories (2007)
Poetry
Retirement: A Debate
Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient (2003)
Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient (2004)
Stories: Life Tales
Student Perspectives
The Terri Schiavo Case: Perspectives from Physicians
When Doctors Get Sick: A Reprise
A Yale Guide to Careers in Medicine and the Health Professions: Coming to Medicine in the 21st Century

Essays

Peter Eric Adotey Addo, "Origins of African American Spiritualism"

Barbara J. Bache-Wiig, "Me 'n Andy"

Michael Basso, Jr., "Bio-psycho-social-tecnho-spiritual Considerations Regarding the ‘Human Stress-strain System’ in Chronic Disease Processes"

Michael Basso, Jr., "The Neurobiology of the Soul"

Michael Basso, Jr., "The Philosophy of Philosophy with a View on Health"

Michael Basso, Jr., "Preparing Successful Future Physicians to Meet Emerging Social Needs in Humanitarian Ways"

Michael Basso, Jr., "The University of the Future- Based upon Holism and Humanitarian Constructs"

Walter Borden, "The Birth of Humanism"

Walter Borden, "Collateral Damage"

Kenneth A. Bryson, "Spiritual Welding 101"

Roland C. Clement, "A Need for Collaboration in Studies of Aging"

Roland C. Clement, "Escaping Retirement"

Roland C. Clement, "Living Alone"

Clare Emily Clifford, "'Blazing Like Disease': John Berryman
and the Dis-Ease of Suicide"

Ed Cohen, "The Placebo Disavowed: Or Unveiling the Bio-Medical Imagination"

Tom Connors, "On Esthetics & Disability"

Jeremy Daniels, "Are My Legs Always Going to Hurt?"

Jeremy Daniels, "Questions That Hurt"

Jeremy Daniels, "Pulled From the Team – A Visit to Jeremy’s Cardiologist"

Brian Deady, "In Sickness as in Health"

Nurdeen Deuraseh, "Physical Medicine and Spiritual Medicine in Islam: An Interweaving"

Nurdeen Deuraseh, "The Role of Islamic Family Law in Preserving
Children's Health and Well-Being"

Nurdeen Deuraseh and Hanisah Yaacob, "Issues on Medical Treatment in Islam"

David Ennis, "An Immigrant's Tale"

D. S. Finn, "The Lumber Room: Mental Illness in the House of Medicine"

Michele Gazzolo, "The Listener"

Kristen Georgi, "Thirty Minutes"

James L. Glazer, "A Medical Fairytale"

Diane Greenberg, "The Cancer Floors"

William Houghton, "Remnants of Yale: the Medical School Ligature"

Clarissa Jakobsons, "From a Woman's Point of View"

Vinay Kamat, "Carpet"

Rabbi Elana Kanter, "Kohelet Moments"

Lisa Kerr, Ph.D., "W.H. Auden and the Importance of Narrative Interpretation in Medicine: A Study of “The Unknown Citizen” and “Musee des Beaux Arts"

Douglas Krohn, "Cognitive Therapy"

Douglas Krohn, "House Calls"

Rev. John W. Love, "The Benevolent Doctor"

Janelle Luk, M.D., "Opening My Heart"

Richard Mansfield, "Diarrhea"

Jeff McCallum, "Regarding Writing the Medical Experience"

H. Steven Moffic, M.D., "Physicians and Global Warming"

Christopher Morren, "The Moral Physician"

M. R. Namazi, M.D., "Scientific Daydreams"

Priscilla Waters Norton, "Memories of Milton C. Winternitz"

Eileen O'Connor, "Medicine and Women's Clothing and Leisure Activities in Victorian Canada"

Patricia O'Hara, "Comprehending Tyler"

Aleksandra Ogrodnik, "Food for Thoughts"

Tomlin J. Paul, "Relationship Medicine"

Ronald Pies, M.D., "Metaphor and Meaning: How Words Work Magic in Our Patients"

Laurel Roberts, "The Tiger Lady"

Paul H. Rockey, "Awakening"

Paul H. Rockey, "Reading to Bette"

Robert Rodman, "John Angel"

Marc D. Rothman, "The Error"

Paul Rousseau, "911"

Paul Rousseau, "Transgender"

Paul Rousseau, "Wheelchair"

Cynthia Pincus Russell, "The Patient As Teacher"

Jeff Seymour, "Laocoön"

P. Ravi Shankar, "The Medical Humanities in Nepal"

Joseph D. Sobol, "Ray Hicks and the Doctors"

David Solarz, "War and Peace"

Howard Spiro, "The Accurate Eye, The Truthful Ear"

Howard Spiro, "Memories of Milton C. Winternitz"

Howard Spiro, "Spirituality and End-of-Life Care"

Howard Spiro, "Why Not Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants?"

Ann Starr, "Choosing My Own Doctor"

Prashant Tamaskar, The "Diving Bell" and the Medical Student

Prakash K. Thomas, "Radial Artery"

Pamela S. Wagner, "Transcending Motion"

Stefan C. Weiss, "From Consultant to Care-giver"

Barbara Young, "Virginia Woolf on Virginia Woolf: Her Cries of Joy and Longing"
Part One
Part Two
Part Three

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"Haircut" (March 2007)

"Irritable Bowels" (April 2007)

"Teacher and Student" (May 2007)

"Sunday Morning Requiem" (June 2007)

"A Leg Up" (July 2007)

"Patient Understanding" (August 2007)

"After 28 Years" (September 2007)

"Morning Poetry" (October 2007)

"Too Close for Comfort" (November 2007)

"Initial Shock" (December 2007)

"The Beauty of Clinical Medicine" (January 2008)

"As You Like It" (February 2008)

"Across the Threshold" (March 2008)

"Grave Error" (April 2008)

"Matters of the Heart" (May 2008)

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Nursing: Do You See What I See

Table of Contents

Sally Bailey and Linda Pellico, "Introduction"

Claire Cassidy, "Please Don't Call Me Ray"

Kristin Meyer, "The Ballet Instructor"

Andrea Elise Schettler, "The Power of Simplicity"

Anna Maria Speciale, "Me, the Nurse"

Laura Thompson, "Novice- A Stream of Consciousness"

Ashley Weycer, "Grace"

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Nursing: Telling Our Stories

Introduction

Brett L. Ives, "Clinical Blues"

Nicole Langan, "Right-Sided Smile"

Rebecca Lesser, "Witness"

Carrie Szejk, "Modern Nurse Nancy"

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Nursing: Telling Our Stories (2007)

Linda Honan Pellico, "Introduction"

Laura Fitzgerald, "Passage"

Sylvia Parker, "You Come From a Long Line of Healers"

Anna-Leila Williams, "Like Lovers"

Clifford C. Wilson, "My First Patient"

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Poetry

Utkarsh Acharya, "The Malignancies of Medicine ..."

Peter E. A. Addo, "Hope and Hopelessness"

Philip Appleman, "Alive"

Philip Appleman, "Eulogy"

Barbara J. Bache-Wiig, "One Myth"

Barbara J. Bache-Wiig, "Three Poems"

Barbara J. Bache-Wiig, "Surprise" and "Slips of the Mind"

Michael Bailey, "Daily Seasons"

Sara Baker, "Catechism"

Catherine Whitney Beaudreault, "Adam's Rib: Upon the Chimera"

Catherine Whitney Beaudreault, "The Soul, Supine"

Mary Buchinger Bodwell, "Four Poems"

Tim Connelly, "Medical Opinion"

Tim Connelly, "Angiogram"

Tim Connelly, "Preparation and Anticipation"

Tim Connelly, "You Are a Good Candidate"

Tim Connelly, "How to Find Your Way Around the VA Hospital"

Tim Connelly, "Suspended Animation"

Tim Connelly, "The Operation"

Tim Connelly, "Intensive Care"

Tim Connelly, "The Rule of Recovery"

Tim Connelly, "Disturbing the Time Line"

Tim Connelly, "Patient Carelessness"

Tim Connelly, "Home"

Tim Connelly, "An Attempt at Cardiac Rehab"

Tim Connelly, "Moody Cardiac Blues"

Tim Connelly, "Pump Head"

Tim Connelly, "The Heart Beat"

Tim Connelly, "Wired"

Tim Connelly, "The Trip of His Life and Death"

Tim Connelly, "If You Have an Operation ... It's the One to Get"

Tim Connelly, "To Whom It May Concern"

Tim Connelly, "One Year Later. Doctor's Note"

Tim Connelly, "The Phone Rings"

Kathleen Grieger, "Al"

Kathleen Grieger, "Fear" and "Growth"

Kathleen Grieger, "Length of Time"

Kathleen Grieger, "Sounds of Comfort" and "Neuro-logic"

Kathleen Grieger, "Waiting for Answers"

Mary Kennan Herbert, "Her Eyes Filled, Thus the Poem Spoke"

Mary Kennan Herbert, "The Best I Could Do"

Mary Kennan Herbert, "Three Poems"

Clarissa Jakobsons, "Ngorogoro Crater Trees"

Lissa Kiernan, "Three Poems"

Edwin D. Kilbourne, "Three Poems"

Brian T. Maurer, "The Visit"

Jeff McCallum, "A Shrieking Child"

Jeff McCallum, "As Time Passes"

Jeff McCallum, "Before the Knife"

Jeff McCallum, "Blessings"

Jeff McCallum, "Bread Crumbs"

Jeff McCallum, "Daydreams and Nightmares"

Jeff McCallum, "Doctor to Student"

Jeff McCallum, "The Dosimetrist and Me"

Jeff McCallum, "For Thomas Moore"

Jeff McCallum, "Four by Four"

Jeff McCallum, "Four Poems"

Jeff McCallum, "I Almost Jumped"

Jeff McCallum, "I Wonder"

Jeff McCallum, "It Is Enough"

Jeff McCallum, "Mid-Hospital Night's Dream"

Jeff McCallum, "Physicians Assistant"

Jeff McCallum, "Professional Kindness"

Jeff McCallum, "Remembering the Old School"

Jeff McCallum, "Retirement Home"

Jeff McCallum, "The Healing"

Jeff McCallum, "The Right to Cry"

Jeff McCallum, "Thanks to All"

Jeff McCallum, "Three Poems"

Jeff McCallum, "Tick Tock"

Jeff McCallum, "Two for One"

Jeff McCallum, "Two Poems"

Jeff McCallum, "The Weight on the Doctor's Wife"

Jeff McCallum, "Your Cancer's Spread"

Shane Neilson, "Sequencing"

Curtis Nordstrom, "Piriformis"

Curtis Nordstrom, "A Prayer Upon the Passing of a Cambodian Gentleman in the E.R."

Curtis Nordstrom, "Cadaver #13"

Aleksandra Ogrodnik, "Dog of a Headache"

William G. Rector, " Three Poems"

Nick Ripatrazone, "Asymmetry"

Nick Ripatrazone, "The Buffalo Fence"

Nick Ripatrazone, "Figure and Form"

Maureen Picard Robins, "Four Poems"

Laurie Rosenblatt, "Amateur Night at Caesar’s"

Laurie Rosenblatt, "Around the Pool in the Jaundiced Light of Morning"

Laurie Rosenblatt, "Each Partial Sum in a Limit is Finite"

Laurie Rosenblatt, "Lipodystrophy, My Darling"

Laurie Rosenblatt, "Rationals and Irrationals Make Up the Real"

Paul Rousseau, "The Prostitute and the Doctor"

Paul Rousseau, "ect"

Paul Rousseau, "Wheelchair"

Sachin D. Shah, "the call night"

Manna Valiathan, "System Failure"

Sarah White, "In the Hospital"

James S. Wilk, "For Rachel, 1982 - 2007"

James S. Wilk, "The Frito-Lay® Triolet"

James S. Wilk, "Hands at Forty"

James S. Wilk, "My cadaver's uterus"

James S. Wilk, "Obstetrical Obstruction"

James S. Wilk, "Passage"

James S. Wilk, "Sevenling (He Is Doctor)"

James S. Wilk, "Hyperemesis Gravidarum"

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Retirement: A Debate

Herbert J. Kaufmann, "Why I Retired"

Howard Spiro, "It's Never Too Late to Work:
An Open Letter to Herbert Kaufmann"

Herbert J. Kaufmann, "A Response to Howard Spiro's Open Letter"

James Scheuer, "A Reaction to Hebert Kaufmann's Remarks"

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Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient (2003)

Table of Contents

Alan A. Astrow, "Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient"

Courtney Jane Bender, "Healing and Religion - A Protestant Perspective"

Sidney Callahan, "Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient "

Harvey Cox, "The Role of Love in the Treatment of the Patient: A Protestant View"

James F. Keenan, "Suffering and the Christian Tradition"

Faiz Khan, "Faith and Care of the Patient: An Islamic Perspective on Critical Illness"

Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon, "Love and the Care of the Patient"

Ingrid Mattson, "Dignity and Patient Care: An Islamic Perspective"

Uma Mysorekar, "Gratitude As Viewed in Hinduism"

David Novak, "Reconciliation at the End of Life"

Christina M. Puchalski, "Forgiveness: Spiritual and Medical Implications"

Joel James Shuman, "Reflections on the Possibility of Gratitude as a Christian Virtue for Patients and Caregivers"

Susan Starr Sered, "Healing and Religion - A Jewish Perspective"

Daniel P. Sulmasy, "Hope and the Care of the Dying Patient:
A Catholic, Christian Perspective"

Abraham Twerski, "Hope and the Care of the Patient: A Jewish View"

Michelle D. White, "African American Christian Spirituality in the Face of Illness"

Venerable Guo Yuan Fa Shi, "Suffering and the Buddhist Tradition"

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Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient (2004)

Table of Contents

Helen Alvare, "Loneliness in the Context of Illness and Dying- A Catholic Perspective"

Alan A. Astrow, "Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient"

Chaplain Barry C. Black, "Denial in the Context of Illness- An Evangelical Protestant Perspective"

Rabbi Tvsi Blanchard, "Visiting the Sick- Jewish Wisdom and Practice Speak to the Loneliness of Illness"

Sarah Coakley, "Anger in the Context of Illness- An Anglican Perspective"

Ruth L. Fischbach, "Overview- Loneliness in the Context of Illness"

Michelle E. Friedman, "Shame and Illness - A Jewish Perspective"

Pamela E. Klassen, "American Protestant Fears"

Ahmed Nezar Kobeisy, "Shame in the Context of Illness - An Islamic Perspective"

Marilyn P. Mecham, "Guilt in the Context of Illness- A Protestant Perspective"

Akbar Muhammad, "Fear in the Islamic Tradition"

Fr. Richard Rohr, "Sadness"

Solomon Schimmel, "Anger in the Context of Illness- Perspectives from Jewish Tradition"

Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, "Sadness in the Context of Illness: A Jewish Perspective"

Myles Sheehan, "Apathy in the Context of Illness - A Catholic Perspective"

Siva Subramanian, "Denial in the Context of Illness - A Hindu Perspective"

Daniel P. Sulmasy, "Control in the Context of Illness - A Catholic Perspective"

Nicholas Vreeland, "Control"

Venerable Yifa, "Apathy in the Context of Illness - A Humanistic Buddhist Perspective"

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Stories: Life Tales

Introduction by Paul Gustafson

Elena Graceffa, "An Ace of All Trades"

Paul Gustafson, "Everyone Has a Story to Tell"

Scott Lawrence Kirschenbaum, "Last Man Out"

Sophie Pinkham, "'Swonderful"

Mollie Wilson, "A Quasi-Official Yale Man"

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Student Perspectives

Chris Buckle, "A Gift"

Tiffany Chang, "Jesse's Quilt"

James K. Fleming, "The Uses of Empathy: A Medical Student’s Perspective"

James Hsiao, "Crusade"

James Hsiao, "Dancing Eyes and Other Maladies of the Nervous System"

James Hsiao, "Heroism the Navaho Way"

James Hsiao, "In the Trenches"

James Hsiao, "Miranda"

James Hsiao, "Variation on the Theme of the Red Shoes in the Wizard of Oz:
The Long Journey Home"

Stefanie Y. Lee, "Cardiology on Call"

Janelle Luk, "Who Am I? I Am Just a Medical Student"

Sydney Butler Montesi, "Poetry"

Flynn C. Murphy, "The Treatment Itself"

Ankit I. Mehta, "The Bed"

Ankit I. Mehta, "The Surgeon's Burden"

Melody Moezzi, "Half a Pancreas Later, Some Things are Still Hard to Digest"

Alex Rankin, "The Healing Touch"

Marlynn Wei, "In medias res"

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The Terri Schiavo Case: Perspectives from Physicians

Introduction

Paul H. Rockey, M.D., "Awakening" and "Reading to Bette"

Robert S. Rosson, M.D., "Of Life and Death: An Open Letter to Congress"

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When Doctors Get Sick: A Reprise

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A Yale Guide to Careers in Medicine and the Health Professions:
Coming to Medicine in the 21st Century

Sandra Alfano, "The Art of the Apothecary"

John Blanton, "Medicine and Diversity"

Julie Cantor, "A First-Year Student in the Pre-Clinical Sciences"

Debbie Cibelli, "Modern Midwifery"

Christopher Coppola, "A Surgical Resident"

Bobby Kapur, "Residents"

Thomas L. Lentz, "The Chairman of an Admissions Committee"

David Melchinger, "The Future of Internal Medicine"

Perry L. Miller, "Medical Informatics: Computers and Patient Care"

Vivek Murthy, "A Medical Student"

Dena Rifkin, "A Third-Year Student in Clinical Clerkships"

Ann Skopek, "A Day in the Life of a Woman in Medicine"

Stefan C. Weiss, "A Medical Resident"

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