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| Genre | Poem |
| Keywords | Alcoholism, Doctor-Patient Relationship, Hospitalization, Human Worth, Patient Experience, Power Relations, Psycho-social Medicine, Rebellion |
| Summary | A patient expresses his anger and frustration with the physicians who are treating him. A recovering alcoholic, he feels particularly sensitive to what he perceives as the doctors' self-righteousness, and imagines how he would get even with them. |
| Source | The Knitted Glove |
| Publisher | Nightshade |
| Edition | 1991 |
| Place Published | Troy, Maine |
| Alternate Source | Blood & Bone |
| Alternate Publisher | Univ. of Iowa Press |
| Alternate Edition | 1998 |
| Alternate Editors | Angela Belli & Jack Coulehan |
| Place Published | Iowa City, Iowa |
| Miscellaneous | Published in: Annals Int. Med., 111: 97 (1989) and in Medicine Stone (Santa Barbara: Fithian Press, 2002) |
| Annotated by |
Chen, Irene |
| Date of Entry |
12/07/93 |
| Last Revised |
11/11/02 |