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By Marc Flitter. 221 pp. South Royalton, Vt., Steerforth Press, 1997. $24. ISBN 1-883642-31-0.

All the time, physicians hear patients tell their stories, the particulars of suffering or newly worrisome lives. In return, the ailing or alarmed man or woman hopes (sometimes hopes against hope) for a responsive medical story: an account of what has happened, an explanation of things as they are, and a speculation about what may happen. This talking by someone in trouble, this listening by someone in the know — a human encounter wherein the stakes are high — makes for considerable drama, as the physician-poet William Carlos Williams more than implied when he told a medical student about the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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