These Vital Signs
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These Vital Signs

A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

These Vital Signs

A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets

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About This Book

A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems.

In medicine, every patient presents with a story. "Once upon a time I was well, and then... " These patient narratives are the beating heart of medicine; through stories we strive to communicate, to understand, to empathize, and perhaps find healing.

These Vital Signs is a poignant series of essays—deeply personal stories—inspired by nephrologist Sayed Tabatabai's medical experience and based on a series of poems he posted on Twitter that began going viral at the height of the Covid pandemic. Each short work is a poignant glimpse into the ever-changing field of medicine and the special relationship between patients and their doctor. In each, Tabatabai beautifully evokes the emotional tension between life and death, wellness and disease, uncertainty and hope, in a unique and unforgettable way.

Exploring themes of illness, dying, grief, and joy, universal in its reach, These Vital Signs tells stories both remarkable and utterly ordinary of a doctor and the patients who have shaped him.

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Publisher
Harper
Year
2023
ISBN
9780063291393
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Part I: Beginnings
  5. Humsafar
  6. In His Footsteps
  7. Part II: The Lessons
  8. The Old Surgeon
  9. Truth in the Tracings
  10. The Invisible Milestones
  11. Into the Photos
  12. The Bare-Knuckle Boxer
  13. Of Bluebirds and Bill
  14. Reset
  15. Part III: The Practice and the Passion
  16. These Vital Signs
  17. The Bouquet
  18. Where Hearts Beat Strongly
  19. A Dog Named Tesla
  20. Unexpected Storms, Toy Boats, Safe Harbors
  21. Trivia Like Flowers
  22. What Did It Take?
  23. A Casual Cruelty
  24. Part IV: The Pandemic and the Precipice
  25. The Monster
  26. These Crooked Paths
  27. The Meaning of Loss
  28. No Normal
  29. Mondays and Fridays
  30. The Ghost on the Corner
  31. The Red Car
  32. Bella
  33. The Invisible Woman
  34. COVID-19, 2060
  35. The Hand-Holder
  36. Part V: Endings
  37. The Shoreless Ocean: Life Advice to Students and Learners
  38. Author’s Note
  39. Acknowledgments
  40. About the Author
  41. Copyright
  42. About the Publisher