Bedside manners : one doctor's reflections on the oddly intimate encounters between patient and healer / David Watts.

New York : Harmony Books, [2005], ©2005.

xvii, 281 pages ; 22 cm

1st ed.

White rabbits -- The doctor with food on his shirt -- Advance directive -- Sylvester -- Love is just a four-letter word -- Circus -- Surgical wound -- Monologue Millie and the system of care -- Flu shot -- The morbius monster -- Living it up at the top of the mark -- Not waving but drowning -- Annie's antidote -- Mrs. Robinson eyes -- Me and the H.E.C. -- Her language -- Evening in the two worlds -- When crazy gets sick -- Joke man -- The gift of nothing -- The girl in the painting by Vermeer -- Lunch at the stereotype cafe -- Lost in translation -- Codger -- About money -- The stalker's bridegroom -- Hospital du jour -- Ritual -- Home remedy -- Ailerons -- The two stories -- Maladie menage -- Protection -- Consultation -- The third satisfaction -- Piano lesson.