Mukand, Jon Arun : Lullaby

Literature Annotations

Genre	Poem
Keywords	Aging, Death and Dying, Doctor-Patient Relationship, Empathy, Euthanasia, Hospitalization, Physician Experience
Summary	A physician caring for a failing patient feels that he can do no more for him than "check / Your tubes, feel your pulse, listen / to your heartbeat." He wishes a swift deliverance for this patient, and would like lovingly to transform him into a compilation of facts within a medical chart: "Let me lift you in my arms / And lay you down / In the cradle of a clean manila folder."
Source	Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry
Publisher	Univ. of Iowa Press
Edition	1994
Editors	Jon Mukand
Place Published	Iowa City, Iowa.
Alternate Source	On Doctoring
Alternate Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Alternate Edition	1991
Alternate Editors	Richard Reynolds & John Stone
Place Published	New York
Miscellaneous	First published: J. Amer. Med. Assoc., April 1, 1983.
Annotated by	Chen, Irene and Aull, Felice
Date of Entry	08/01/93