Medicine in Brief, Volume 2: Name the Disease: Medical Haiku and Tanka - Softcover

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Fresh air, mountain streams
Water not clean as it seems
Weeks on symptoms start
Cramping, loose stool, scare for host
Haunting wide-eyed floating ghosts

Ready to solve this poem? Hajimemashou!

Medicine in Brief, Volume 2 expands upon the first book's collection of medical poems written in traditional Japanese haiku and tanka form. Each poem is designed to capture the uniqueness of a particular disease, serving as both puzzle and springboard for education about the illness.

Open the book to any page and find an original poem as a riddle to be solved. The answer and an explanation as to why that answer is correct lie on the following page.

The poems cover a wide swath of Medicine with ten chapters ranging from Cardiology and Infectious Disease to Oncology and Psychiatry. Medicine in Brief, Volume 2 will challenge, educate and delight any student of Medicine.

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