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Auscultation

Jerald Winakur, MD

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  • From The Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78284.

    Current Author Address: Jerald Winakur, MD, PO Box 128, Comfort, TX 78013.

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Beyond the stacks
of textbooks studied
among the piles of journals
read and not
pulsing in those
glove-numbed hands
inside the stiff white coat
starched to armor
noosed in the caduceus
drumming deep within
the black coils
between the endless rounds
the endless dyings
still beats
a poet's heart
and it pounds again
and pounds again
now that you have
finally clutched
this instrument
to your own chest.
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Winakur J. Auscultation. Ann Intern Med. 2005;142:951. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-142-11-200506070-00022

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2005;142(11):951.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-142-11-200506070-00022

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