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“On Being a Doctor: Working against the Grain”

Filed under Career Exploration
Posted by Libraries, June 06, 2006
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David P. Steensma, MD, Annals of Internal Medicine, May 2, 2006, Vol. 144, Issue 9, pp. 697-698.

We venture away slightly from our usual direction today to present a moving narrative by a doctor who happens to carve out a relationship with a dying patient. The patient has found a raison d’etre in woodworking – and the doctor learns valuable lessons in dealing with his own eventual cancer.

Link to the article:
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/144/9/697

—Robert Demanche