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An unlikely lesson from a medical desert -- Texas heat -- Dr. Drayton Doherty and Miss Cootsie -- All some patients need is listening and talking -- Diagnoses without diseases -- The woman who believed she was a man -- Mind and body -- Sweet Thing -- New clinical interventions -- Florence's symptoms -- Symptoms without disease -- Looking back on Fairhope -- The diarrhea of Agnes -- Dr. Jim's breasts -- The woman who would not talk -- The woman who could not tell her husband anything -- Staying out of God's way -- A paradoxical approach -- You can't be everybody's doctor -- In tune with the patient