Preface: what you might expect to find here
Facts and lies
The orange wire problem
Brain damage
Let eagles come
The chart in the window
Thank you Mr. Nicholson
Talking about Christmas
Silence knows the right questions
One cancer cell
Anathema
Telling the truth in the realm of truth
Ghosts in the machine
Blood butterfly
Is something wrong with your prostate?
The soft animal of the body
Aspirin and beauty
Notes from the center of a perpetual breakdown
Ready for anything
A critical distance
The way we know what we know
Third opinion
Hanna's volvulus
The case of the missing molecule
The pill on the shelf
Mother Teresa and the problem of care
The doctor's pill
Afterword: brilliance.