No Apparent Distress
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anxiety treatments, 195–96
and Hurricane Ike, 41–42
and husband’s lung cancer, 197–204
Vellucci, Julian, 244–46
Vesalius, Andreas, 66, 67
Veterans Affairs hospitals, 130
Viking Rover (boat), 154–55, 159–60, 179
virtue, Roman concept of, 245–46
War on Drugs, 82
whole-brain radiation, 171
Wolfe, Lena Mae (grandmother), 105–9
Xochitl (patient), 18–19
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Personal Narratives
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