Rage and Reconciliation
Rage and Reconciliation, one of Creative Nonfiction’s most popular issues, has been re-released. The book includes new essays and an 80-minute CD containing three essays read by professional actors and a panel discussion of the ethical dimensions of the issues raised. In this special issue produced in conjunction with Pittsburgh’s Jewish Healthcare Foundation, writers tackle healthcare in America, including problems of patient rights and professional responsibility. In “Notes on a Difficult Case,” Ruthann Robson details the traumatic results of a dangerous misdiagnosis; in “A Merging of Head and Heart,” Judith Dancoff discusses her painful sexual dysfunction, the result of a pituitary tumor; and in “Postpartum,” Nancy Linnon reveals her struggles with postpartum depression.
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Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
Foreword: Close Encounters of the Worst Kind: An Intimate Look at Medical Error
Introduction: The Rage That Inspires Reconciliation
The Agony and the Agony
The plan was to break open the tiny tabernacle, split the relic, swallow it and see what transpired. To carry out this borderline sacrilegious project, though it was not our intent to be irreverent in any way, we used one of mother’s steel steak knives, carefully dissecting the microscopic sliver of St.Burden of Oath
Babies as a Problem
A Merging of Head and Heart
Interesting Case: Do Not Discard
Hypoplastic Heart
The Last Train to Clarksville: A Journey Through Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Postpartum
Lessons from the Unlikely
The Right Thing
A Measure of Acceptance
The psychiatrist’s office was in a run-down industrial section at the northern edge of Oregon’s capital, Salem.Rachel at Work: Enclosed, a Mother’s Report
In the spring of 2002, the crocuses pushed up and the daffodils blossomed and froze, and I worried about work—not my own, which I love, but what kind of work my developmentally disabled 18-year-old daughter, Rachel, might be able to do when she is no longer in the shelter of school.OnBreast Cancer #2
It’s 5 o’clock, and the long cases are over. There’s just one more to go—the last of the day. One of my partners throws open the operating-room door and stands facing me with his mask down around his neck, his surgeon s gown backward and hanging open over dirty scrubs, his pants pulled low by double pagers at his waist.“WantThe Burden of Baby Boy Smith
Notes from a Difficult Case
Almost everyone I know advised me to sue. Their advice was not casual, because almost everyone I know is an attorney. As am I. At 42, I’d been an attorney almost half my life.
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