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Doctor's Amnesia

Doctor's Amnesia It can't be rare these days. After the wars, watching Discovery Channel safe at home, I saw a back I knew from angled mirrors: those pinched, frenetic features were my own. And then the blow of memory's return: unbearable burns, charred from the waist on down, scrubbing so fast my fingers seemed to blur, the flesh, the cries, immediate yet far, were all as if you saw them on TV. I saw the things Prime Time would never see caught by the cameraman beside the bed. The child was just the age of my own son. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

Doctor's Amnesia

JAMA , Volume 295 (1) – Jan 4, 2006

Doctor's Amnesia

Abstract

It can't be rare these days. After the wars, watching Discovery Channel safe at home, I saw a back I knew from angled mirrors: those pinched, frenetic features were my own. And then the blow of memory's return: unbearable burns, charred from the waist on down, scrubbing so fast my fingers seemed to blur, the flesh, the cries, immediate yet far, were all as if you saw them on TV. I saw the things Prime Time would never see caught by the cameraman beside the bed. The child was just...
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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.295.1.14
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Abstract

It can't be rare these days. After the wars, watching Discovery Channel safe at home, I saw a back I knew from angled mirrors: those pinched, frenetic features were my own. And then the blow of memory's return: unbearable burns, charred from the waist on down, scrubbing so fast my fingers seemed to blur, the flesh, the cries, immediate yet far, were all as if you saw them on TV. I saw the things Prime Time would never see caught by the cameraman beside the bed. The child was just the age of my own son.

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JAMAAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jan 4, 2006

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