title: Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers (Literature & Medicine)
author:  Jay Baruch 
description: "Plunging into one of Jay Baruch's stories is like finding yourself in a busy Emergency Room at two in the morning--here you will meet characters whose lives are urgent and not always what they seem on the surface. Like his characters, Baruch's writing is vibrant and intense, and his vision is prismatic. He speaks in many voices, among them doctor, patient, family member, medical student, and even ER janitor, and so examines the world of health and illness from many pints of view." -- Cortney Davis
zlib_text: For Naava, Noah, and Ariel
  
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  ALSO BY DANIELLE OFRI
  
   _Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue_
  
   _Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine_
  
   _Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients_
  
   _Intensive Care: A Doctor’s Journey_
  
   _What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine_
  
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  Contents
  
  CHAPTER 1  
  Communication and Its Discontents
  
  CHAPTER 2  
  From Both Sides Now
  
  CHAPTER 3  
  It Takes Two
  
  CHAPTER 4  
  Now Hear This
  
  CHAPTER 5  
  With All Good Intentions
  
  CHAPTER 6  
  What Works
  
  CHAPTER 7  
  Chief Listening Officer
  
  CHAPTER 8  
  Listen to Me
  
  CHAPTER 9  
  Just the Facts, Ma’am
  
  CHAPTER 10  
  Do No Harm
  
  CHAPTER 11  
  What Lies Beneath
  
  CHAPTER 12  
  The Language of Medicine
  
  CHAPTER 13  
  Rushing to Judgment
  
  CHAPTER 14  
  Can It Be Taught?
  
  CHAPTER 15  
  A Fragile Truce Shatters
  
  CHAPTER 16  
  Can We Talk?
  
   _Acknowledgments_
  
   _Notes_
  
   _Index_
  
  CHAPTER 1
  
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