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Doctors and Patients An Anthology Edited by Cecil Helman Boca Raton London New York dCRcCl Pirefssf ies a nM imperindt oif cthae l Press Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Firstpublished2003byRadcliffePublishing Published2018byCRCPress Taylor&FrancisGroup 6000BrokenSoundParkway NW, Suite300 Boca Raton, FL33487-2742 ©2003CecilHelman CRCPressisanimprintofTaylor&FrancisGroup,anInformabusiness No claimtooriginalU.S. Governmentworks ISBN-13: 978-1-85775-993-8 (pbk) This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. While all reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information, neither the author[s] nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. 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TypesetbyAdvance TypesettingLtd,Oxfordshire Contents About the editor v Acknowledgements vi Introduction: The Healing Bond by Cecil Helman 1 Part 1: DOCTORS 15 Baptism by Rotation by Mikhail Bulgakov 17 A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka 27 A Medical Document by Arthur Conan Doyle 33 In the Gray Zone by Rachel Naomi Remen 43 Part 2: PATIENTS 47 Telling the Truth by Renate Rubinstein 49 Observer Life, 3 August 1997 by Ruth Picardie 53 Inside Out and Upside Down: diagnosis by Rachel Clark 57 My Life as a Pig by Clive Sinclair 73 Sanatorium by W Somerset Maugham 81 Let Me Feel Your Pulse by O Henry 101 Part 3: CLINICAL ENCOUNTERS 111 Rebecca by Oliver Sacks 113 The Other Half of Eddie Barnett by Cecil Helman 121 The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams 131 The Case of David Murray by AJ Cronin 135 iv Contents A Doctor's Visit by Anton Chekhov 143 The King ofXingu by Moacyr Scliar 153 Notes on the contributors 157 Further reading 161 About the editor Cecil Helman was born in 1944 in Cape Town, South Africa, and now lives in London. He is both a doctor and a writer, and also has a degree in anthro pology. His books, translated into six languages, include: a collection of short stories, The Exploding Newspaper & Other Fables; a book of essays, Body Myths (published in the USA as The Body of Frankenstein's Monster: essays in myth and medicine); and a textbook, Culture, Health and Illness. His short stories and prose poems have been included in ten anthologies - and in many literary magazines - in the USA, Britain and South Africa. In 1983-84, he was a Visiting Fellow in Social Medicine and Health Policy, at Harvard Medical School. Currently he is Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at Brunei University, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School. Acknowledgements The editor would like to acknowledge the following publishers, agents and authors for rights to reprint these stories: • Baptism by Rotation by Mikhail Bulgakov, from A Country Doctor's Notebook, translated by Michael Glenny, published by Collins-Harvill. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. • Baptism by Rotation by Mikhail Bulgakov, from A Country Doctor's Notebook, translated by Michael Glenny, published by Collins-Harvill. ©Mikhail Bulgakov - translated by Michael Glenny. Reproduced by permission of Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd, 20 Powis Mews, London Wll 1JN. • A Doctor's Visit by Anton Chekhov, from The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett. Used by permission of AP Watt Ltd, on behalf of the Executor of the Estate of Constance Garnett. • Inside Out and Upside Down: diagnosis by Rachel Clark, from Clark R with Jefferies N, Hasler J and Pendleton D (2002) A Long Walk Home. Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford. © 2002 Rachel Clark/Naomi Jefferies. Reprinted by permission of Naomi Jefferies. • The Case of David Murray by AJ Cronin, from Adventures in Two Worlds. Reprinted by permission of Victor Gollancz Ltd, a division of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd. • The Case of David Murray by AJ Cronin, from Adventures in Two Worlds. © AJ Cronin. Reprinted by permission of AM Heath & Co Ltd. • A Medical Document by Arthur Conan Doyle, from Tales of Adventure and Medical Life (John Murray, 1963). First published in 1922. • The Other Half of Eddie Barnett by Cecil Helman, from the London Magazine 36(7,8), October-November, 1996. • Let Me Feel Your Pulse by O Henry, from The Best of O Henry (Hodder & Stoughton, 1954). • A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka, translated by Iain Bamforth. Published in 1999 by the British Journal of General Practice. 49: 1036-9. Used by permission of the British Journal of General Practice. Acknowledgements vii • Sanatorium by W Somerset Maugham. From The Complete Short Stories by W Somerset Maugham published by William Heinemann, 1951. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. • Observer Life, 3 August 1997, column by Ruth Picardie, from Before I Say Goodbye by Ruth Picardie with Matt Seaton and Justine Picardie (Penguin Books, 1998). © 1997 Ruth Picardie. Observer Life columns © 1997 Ruth Picardie and Justine Picardie. • In the Gray Zone, from My Grandfather's Blessings by Rachel Naomi Remen MD. © 2000 by Rachel Naomi Remen MD. Used by permission of Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc. • Telling the Truth by Renate Rubinstein, from Take It and Leave It: aspects of being ill by Renate Rubinstein, translated by Karin Fierke and Aad Janssen (Marion Boyars Publishers, 1985). Reprinted by permission of Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, London. • Rebecca by Oliver Sacks, from The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat (Picador, 1985). © 1985 by Oliver Sacks. Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc. • The King of Xingu by Moacyr Scliar. Adapted and translated from Portuguese by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author. Extract taken from A Majestado do Xingu, first published by Companhia das Letras, Sao Paolo, Brazil, in 1997. • My Life as a Pig by Clive Sinclair, from A Soap Opera From Hell (Picador). © 1998 Clive Sinclair. Reproduced by permission of Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd, 20 Powis Mews, London Wll 1JN. • The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams. © 1938 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. • The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams, from Collected Poems (2000) by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Ltd. Notes • If there are any errors or omissions in this list, they will be corrected in future reprints of this book. • A Doctor's Visit by Anton Chekhov is from The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories (Chatto and Windus, 1917), in the translation by Constance Garnett. viii Acknowledgements • The quotes from the poems by Raphael Campo and Danny Abse are taken from Blood & Bone: poems by physicians, edited by Angela Belli and Jack Coulehan (University of Iowa Press, 1998). • I am particularly grateful to three friends of mine - Oliver Sacks, Clive Sinclair and Moacyr Scliar - for permission to include their stories in this book. Dedication To my daughter Zoe.
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