One Ring Circus

✍ Scribed by Dunn, Katherine

• Publisher: Schaffner Press, Inc.
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Front Cover; Copyright ; Contents; Prologue; I. Measures of Time and Metaphor; II. Two Journeys Begin; Something is Wrong with Me; I Did Not Choose; Suspicion, Witchcraft, and the Magic of Dialogue; First Encounters; Childhood of a Different Place; Adjust, Educate, Collaborate; The Girl in the Pink Snowsuit; One Up, One Down; III. An Unstable Life; A Hawk in Winter; The Bitter Pill; A Weak Spot; Love and Loss; The Mirror and The Lens; Interdependence: The Doctor Moves to NIH; When the Cat's Away The Mice Will Play; The Merchant of the Bronx; Things Go Wrong:A Patient Named Carole.;

An invaluable resource for medical professionals, victims of chronic illnesses, and their loved ones, this dual memoir by a doctor and his longtime patient traces the growth of their unique friendship over a span of decades. By exploring the bond between caregiver and sufferer, this sensitive account evokes not only the constant day to day frustrations and emotional toll suffered by the chronically ill, but also an understanding of the mental struggles and conflicts that a conscientious doctor must face in deciding how best to treat a patient without compr.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Copyright
Contents
Prologue
I. Measures of Time and Metaphor
II. Two Journeys Begin
Something is Wrong with Me
I Did Not Choose
Suspicion, Witchcraft, and the Magic of Dialogue
First Encounters
Childhood of a Different Place
Adjust, Educate, Collaborate
The Girl in the Pink Snowsuit
One Up, One Down
III. An Unstable Life
A Hawk in Winter
The Bitter Pill
A Weak Spot
Love and Loss
The Mirror and The Lens
Interdependence: The Doctor Moves to NIH
When the Cat's Away The Mice Will Play
The Merchant of the Bronx
Things Go Wrong:A Patient Named Carole. A Doctor's Life: Phase 1 TrialsA Summer Wedding
A Doctor's Life: Annie, or It's In My Bones
IV. Facing the Abyss
Written, Sealed
The Games Are Over
Death
Out Of Sync
Nature Abhors a Vacuum
V. Spring Returns
The Puzzle Pieces of Life
I Am Me
Acknowledgments.