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" Comfort measures only : "
Rafael Campo.
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BL
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850772
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Campo, Rafael
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Comfort measures only : : new and selected poems, 1994-2016 /\ Rafael Campo.
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| Publication Statement
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2018.
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1 online resource
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1478002069
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1478000074
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147800021X
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9781478000075
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9781478000211
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Medicine, Poetry.
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FICTION-- General.
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Medicine.
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POETRY / Gay Lesbian
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811/.54
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PS3553.A4883
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