title: On Doctoring: New, Revised and Expanded Third Edition
author: Richard Reynolds
description: Few physicians and fewer medical students read novels. Nonetheless, literature has much to teach physicians and medical students about the type of work they have chosen. This anthology, aimed primarily at first-year medical students, is made up of bite-sized offerings. It includes 130 pieces (mostly poems, but also stories, essays, and one short play) by 81 authors, with all the pieces chosen because they illuminate an aspect of the practice of medicine. Although it is labeled as a third edition, the collection remains substantially similar to the 1991 first edition (about a dozen authors from the first and second editions do not appear here, and a few more than that have been added). Nonetheless, there is no better place than this book to begin an exploration of what literature tells us about physicians and what physicians have written that can qualify as literature.
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  >  **CONTENTS**
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapte