Attending Others A Doctor's Education in Bodies and Words by BrianVolck Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 2016 by Cascade Books ISBN-13: 978-1-62032-728-9, ISBN: 1-62032-728-7
"Becoming a doctor requires years of formal education, but one learns the practice of medicine only through direct encounters with the fragile others called "patients." Pediatrician Brian Volck recounts his own education in the mysteries of suffering bodies, powerful words, and natural beauty. It's a curriculum where the best teachers are children and their mothers, the classrooms are Central American villages and desert landscapes, and ..."
"New poems, translations, interviews, and book reviews in a yearly literary journal for Catholic Poetry."
Attending Others A Doctor’s Education in Bodies and Words by BrianVolck 222 Pages, Published 2016 by Wipf And Stock Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-5326-0488-1, ISBN: 1-5326-0488-2
"Fevers in babies under two months of age are worrisome because fever is a
nonspecific sign of anything from the effects of too ... My first, unspoken response
to my discovery of Peter's fever was to blame myself for using the thermometer at
all."
"Poetry. "Brian Volck first establishes the irreplaceability of the body. 'What self/ remains, apart from the body(?)' he asks in an early poem. Then right before the reader's eyes, in one beautiful and witty arc, he transforms flesh to words. There is silence here, too, pauses to listen for the sound of hunger. And there is the profound wisdom that silence and hunger can bring. FLESH BECOMES WORD is a splendid debut." Jeanne Murray Walk ..."
Attending Others by Volck, Brian Hardcover, Published 2016 by Wipf And Stock ISBN-13: 978-1-4982-8877-4, ISBN: 1-4982-8877-4