This is a practical and comprehensive guide to communication in family medicine for doctors nurses and staff in the primary healthcare team

Medical Education as a Rite of Passage. Functions of writing for medical students. Why Study Medical Student Poetry? Living Anatomy: The Experience of Cadaver Dissection. Am I a doctor Yet? Becoming a Physician. It's not only what's in your brain, it's what's in your heart: becoming a physician part II. Oh Doctor, doctor, what can I do? You are my patient...let us take flight! If they don't care, why should I? Student-patient relationships II. Tickling the conscience: the intersection of medicine and social justice. I am afraid as I ponder that inevitable end: death and dying. Is this the way of life? Reflections on love and life. Strangers in a strange land: what matters to medical students on their journey and how they tell about it. Postscript: writing rings around death.