House Calls with William Carlos Williams, M.D.
I try in the beginning to get that (doctor’s) bag aside; I want to be a visitor first, then an advisor, and I hope a helper, after we’ve all settled down, settled into the job ahead—the telling by the patient and his or her family and the asking by me, then the doing, by hand alone (thump, thump on the chest, gliding on the skin to tell the temperature, the sweat, any rash), and then on with the big-deal instruments that signal knowledge, capability, diagnosis: the stethoscope, the ophthalmoscope, the otoscope, the neurological hammer. (p. 38)
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