Hey Doc!
Are you listening to YOUR heart?
 
By Richard Sheff, MD 
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Hey, Doc!

                       

 

Table of Contents

 

Prologue                                                                     

 

Part I:  Medical School

 

Chapter I:  Gross Anatomy

The Final Moment When She Absolved Me Of Guilt

 

Chapter II:  Psychiatry

“Just treat them like people.  They’d like that.”

 

Chapter III:  Gynecology

The Woman I Knew So Intimately, but Would Never Meet

 

Chapter IV:  Obstetrics

“It’s wrong.  It’s all wrong.”

 

Chapter V:  Surgery

“Who’s next?”

 

Chapter VI:  Internal Medicine

“So datz vot psychology iz!”

 

Chapter VII:  Pediatrics

Something Important Fell Out

 

Chapter VIII:  Choosing a Specialty

“What’s love got to do with psychiatry?”

 

Chapter IX:  Electives

“You Can Use This Power for the Good of Patients or to Fulfill Your Own Needs.  The Choice Will be Yours Every Day.”

 

Chapter X:  Subinternship

Something Important Became Buried, But Not Gone

 

Part II:  Residency

 

Chapter I:  Internship

“Hey, Doc!  I’m not angry.”

 

Chapter II:  Junior Residency

One by One, the Dying Were Teaching Me What They So Desperately Needed

 

Chapter III:  Senior Residency

He Taught Me To Listen To My Heart, so That I Might Touch His With Healing

 

Epilogue