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This short postscript takes up a subject which is not as fully taken up in this book as it might be, namely the great satisfactions, for healthcare providers and patients, which work in healthcare—the work of caring—affords people. These fulfillments include hope, extended life and life-fulfillments, alleviations of pain and suffering, and simply the community-building that healthcare calls upon in small and large ways. To this end, it presents Derek Mahon’s poetic celebration of ongoing life in the face of medical emergencies in his poem “Everything Is Going to Be All Right.”
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Schleifer, Ronald, and Jerry Vannatta. 2013. The Chief Concern of Medicine: The Integration of the Medical Humanities and Narrative Knowledge into Medical Practices. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Vannatta, Jerry, Ronald Schleifer, and Sheila Crow. 2005. Medicine and Humanistic Understanding: The Significance of Narrative in Medical Practices. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. A DVD-Rom publication.
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Schleifer, R., Vannatta, J.B. (2019). Afterword. In: Literature and Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19128-3_15
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