TY - JOUR T1 - Anatole Broyard, Rosie and me JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 850 LP - 850 VL - 57 IS - 543 AU - Dougal Jeffries Y1 - 2007/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/543/850.abstract N2 - Anatole Broyard was a celebrated New York literary critic, who died from metastatic prostate cancer in 1992. He recorded his thoughts on his disease and experience in a collection of essays published under the title, ‘Intoxicated By My Illness’,1 which for some reason has just come to my notice. It is a gem of a book, and one essay in particular, ‘The Patient Examines the Doctor’, is so packed with observations—stimulating, provocative, mischievous and moving — that no doctor with a shred of humanity could fail to learn something from it.Broyard wants his doctor to be: a close reader of illness and a good critic of medicine; to study poetry; to imagine the aloneness of the critically ill; to resemble Oliver Sacks; not to love him, but ‘to … ER -