Taking Care of Time.

Intro -- Contents -- Part I. -- Nursing 101 -- Selling Kisses at the Diner -- Mornings We Rolled Pills into Fluted Cups -- Surgical Rotation -- The Nurse's First Autopsy -- Apology to the Woman in Room 23 -- Stoned -- Intubating the Corpse -- Angel of Mercy -- Falling Temperature -- All Night, Lightning Flared Silently -- Heroics -- Teaching CPR -- Women's Clinic -- The Dark Marks -- Hooked Up -- Alchemy -- The Circulating Nurse Enters the Operating Room -- Waking -- It Was a Good Year for Dreams -- Part II. -- Becoming the Patient -- Part III. -- The Ant's Reprieve -- The Nurse's Pockets -- A Patient Tells about Her Suffering -- Diagnosis HIV -- Follow-Up: Women's Clinic -- Astronomy -- I'm Afraid of the Brief Empty Space -- Visiting the Lightning Struck -- Distracted by Blackberries -- On Call: Splenectomy -- Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter -- The Vocation of Illness -- There Are No Poems at Hospital Management Meetings -- Killing the Nurse in the House -- I Want To Work in a Hospital -- My Evidence -- Twelve Thousand Years Ago -- Hospice -- Taking Care of Time -- Finding What You Didn't Expect -- First Night at the Cheap Hotel -- The Snake Charmer -- Author's Acknowledgments -- Series Acknowledgments.

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