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Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, & Poetry

Contributor(s): Campo, Rafael (Author)

ISBN: 9780393317718

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Pub Date: June 1, 1998

Dewey: 610.92

LCCN: 96023121

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.73" H x 7.58" L x 5.56" W ( 0.55 lbs) 272 pages

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Medical | Essays

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Description: In this "unrelenting effort to humanize the medical profession" ("Publishers Weekly"), Campo turns the doctor-patient relationship inside-out, writing not just of his attempts to heal, but of how his patients have healed "him".

Brief description: Rafael Campo, author of two books of poetry, teaches and practices medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Hospital of Boston.

Review Quotes: An extraordinary memoir about the body and the soul.--Richard Rodriguez

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