Coulehan, Jack : I'm Gonna Slap Those Doctors

Literature Annotations

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