Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
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
Ten 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