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By Jamie Weisman. 244 pp. New York, North Point Press, 2002. $23. ISBN 0-86547-602-0.

All medical students are required to write "history and physicals" ("H&Ps") about their patients. In our urban clinic, I ask students to write one H&P in a narrative format — that is, to have the patient describe for the student what it is like to have a particular disease and what advice he or she might provide to a doctor in training. As I Live and Breathe is a lucidly woven answer to such questions. Jamie Weisman refrains from directly proffering advice; instead, it is her incisive perspective from both sides of the clinical coin that will enlighten both medical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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