I wish my bedside manner was poetry

Borrowed from http://brogo.org.au/people/tim-metcalf/verbal-medicine.html I hope they don't mind.... Verbal Medicine is a unique tool for students of the Medical Humanities. 21 prominent clinician-poets of Australia and New Zealand come together, with a historical sketch and select bibliography, in this anthology that challenges and responds to the perceived decline in the practice of the art of medicine. Verbal Medicine is the record of a blossoming of poetry concerned with the need to locate the human firmly within a clinical milieu that often has other priorities. Verbal Medicine is a quick-acting, long-lasting literary elixir ideal for those suffering from a general deficiency of the art of medicine, those who wish to boost their empathic harmony with people both inside and outside the health care system/ on either side of sickness. So long as we live, so long as we struggle against the inevitable, we will have ill health to confront. As the science of the body advances, we will encounter greater difficulty with the art of the mind. This is their essential interconnectedness for us as human beings. Verbal Medicine speaks to us in the languages of both art and science.