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Author : Prospero Shimshon Shimon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456807234
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Autobiography of a Repaired Physician written by Prospero Shimshon Shimon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-29 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Prospero Shimshon Shimon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462807259
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Autobiography of a Repaired Physician written by Prospero Shimshon Shimon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Autobiography of a Repaired Physician : Mental Health as Seen from Both Sides of the Desk is a trilogy. Book I deals with my life before, during and after the emergence of an attack of bipolar disorder. The shattering consequences of the disorder and the personal history that precede it are discussed in great clinical and personal detail. My chief concern is that the reader comprehend how the past, present, and future come into play in understanding the outcome in the treatment of this destructive and deadly disease. Book II concerns the social stigma associated with having a history of the disorder and the many pitfalls clinically, psychologically and socially that exist for an individual, such as myself who is charged with the professional responsibility of caring for people suffering from similar affl ictions. Book III is about my adventures in the real world as I have seen it. It relates to the madness of our world in which the ever present and infuriating search for power prestige and possessions appear unfortunately to be the primary determinants of behavior in our society. Many of my closest friends have tried to dissuade me from writing about this issue because they feared I would be exposing myself to further social stigma. I feel strongly that those who have suffered from the destructive effects of the spectrum of bipolar disorder must know how treatment works and what pitfalls to avoid in treatment. As a physician it is my duty to heal myself and with the help of some very talented colleagues. I have been able to do just that. My struggle continues and in that sense more books will be written. I would like to especially acknowledge the help of my wife Barbara, who has stuck with me through thick and thin, and my children Miranda, Alexander and Victoria who love each other and me.
Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812988418
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
Author : Charles J. B. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331059011
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Life and Work (Classic Reprint) written by Charles J. B. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of Life and Work In offering to the Profession and to the Public these memoranda of the life and labours of a hard-working physician, extending over a period of upwards of sixty years, I think that I am performing a duty, incumbent on all, to make known experiences, which have been neither few nor unsuccessful, in relation to the science and art of Medicine, and may not prove uninteresting in regard to its history. But I feel that some apology is due for the long delay which has postponed the publication to so late a period of my life. My excuse must be the state of my health. The narrative will show how a constitution, never robust, yet endowed with great activity of mind and body, suffered at times from overwork, especially during the ten years' tenure of the Professorship at University College, and that in the busy life which followed, there was no sufficient recovery from that overstrain, to enable me to fulfil the literary engagements which pressed upon me. Works called for and undertaken, for which materials had been long accumulating, were not completed; editions out of print were unrenewed; and during a period of upwards of twenty years, all available time and strength were devoted to the cares and responsibilities of a large consulting practice. One work I was enabled to produce, through the welcome assistance of my son Dr. Charles Theodore Williams. I allude to that on 'Pulmonary Consumption, ' noticed in Chap. XXXVII. It also has been for some time out of print. At the time of my retirement, nine years ago, I was too much wearied and worn to attempt any great work. But the rest and refreshment which God has vouchsafed to me during the interval, encouraged me a year ago to commence these Memoirs, which, through His continued mercy, I have been enabled so far to complete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Stephen W. Williams
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333240127
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)
Download or read book American Medical Biography, Or Memoirs of Eminent Physicians written by Stephen W. Williams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Medical Biography, or Memoirs of Eminent Physicians: Embracing Principally Those Who Have Died Since the Publication of Dr. Thacher's Work on the Same Subject Some of the memoirs were written by myself on different occasions, such as those of Drs. Allen, Church, Hamilton, Haynes, Goodhue, Prentiss, Stone, Wing, Thomas and William S. Williams, Henry Wells, John Lee, and several others. I feel under great and last ing Obligations to my friends Drs. Sewall, of Washing ton; Coxe, Hays, Randolph, Wood and Hodge, Of Philadelphia; Charles A. Lee, Francis, Mott, &c., of New York; Jackson, J. V. C. Smith, Thatcher, Alden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Auguste Marie Michel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331155904
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (559 download)
Download or read book A Mutilated Life Story written by Auguste Marie Michel and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Mutilated Life Story: Strange Fragments of an Autobiography; Sketches of Experiences as a Nurse and Doctor in an African Hospital and in the American West Dr. Auguste Marie Michel began her medical career as a missionery nurse in Africa where she gave her first year of service to all kinds of malignant infectious fevers and pestiferous diseases in that country. The heroine of that dark and dangerous period won distinction for her remarkable courage. Her general fitness for emergencies was recognized and lauded by the French military doctors, after which she was promoted interne of the hospitial, manager of the dispensary and clinical teacher of all the native medical students. She remained in Africa five years. Returning to France Dr. Michel became externe pupil of the famous Professor Crozat. She worked in his Maternity Hospital and was credited and recommended by him to the faculty of medicine in Paris. Dr. Michel came to America in 1893 and taught at a training school until she entered the medical college under the preceptory of Professor R. Ludlum, President of the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical College in Chicago. She graduated from the National Medical University and Hospital, Chicago, Ill., March 30th, 1899. Dr. Michel is an essayist on the diseases and treatment of children and author of the book entitled "The Truth in Spite of the Devil," of which the present volume is an outcome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : D. W. Cathell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528347365
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Book on the Physician Himself written by D. W. Cathell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Book on the Physician Himself: And Things That Concern His Reputation Remember, in making your selection, that a physician cannot rely on his near neighbors for patronage; people in your immediate neighborhood may never employ you, while some farther away will want no one else. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Margaret A. Cleaves
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330306284
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of a Neurasthene written by Margaret A. Cleaves and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Autobiography of a Neurasthene: As Told by One of Them This is the biography of a physician. The actual conditions are recorded. It does not matter whether it was really a man or a woman. The complete exhaustion of supreme nerve centres as in this case rarely befalls a woman. So far as the fulfillment of professional duties, the achievement of a definite purpose with this tremendous handicap is concerned, it was done. The physician whose story is told, and also the physician in attendance both knew from their own experience the worst of this condition without a pathology, but which evidences a definite pathological physiology. Never for one moment did either the one or the other abate their interest in their professional work, nor their manifold duties in relation to life. The physician in attendance did not know from his own experience the anguish of pain, inability and all it meant to keep up courage and activity until after fully eight years of attendance upon the patient whose biography is recorded. There had been premonitions as early as at the time of his patients complete break. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : D. W. Cathell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266384670
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Book on the Physician Himself and Things That Concern His Reputation and Success (Classic Reprint) written by D. W. Cathell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Book on the Physician Himself and Things That Concern His Reputation and Success The marked favor with which it has been received by the medical press, the expressions of approval by many well-known members of the profession, and the demand for edition after edition of it, are taken as proof that such a work was greatly needed, and that it is finding its way into the hands of many of those for whom it was written. Grateful for this result, and desiring to render it more worthy of the flattering commendations it has received, the author has carefully revised the entire work, and made such alterations in it as greater experience and more mature reflection have dictated. He has also added a great deal of new material, the result of further thought and of later observations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : BookRags
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book My Own Country written by Abraham Verghese and published by BookRags. This book was released on 1998 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. T. Still
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331025818
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Autobiography of Andrew T. Still (Classic Reprint) written by A. T. Still and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Autobiography of Andrew T. Still I will inform the reader at the outset that this book is written to state facts, without being confined to exact dates and figures. Events that have made lasting impressions on my mind, stated as correctly as possible from memory, are narrated here without regard to the rules of fine writing. I never kept any notes of my life, therefore the stories may appear disconnected. When I tell you of an event it will be the truth as I remember it, regardless of how it may look in print. I want to avoid "biography" as I write, for the reason that "biographies" are so nicely worded that the reader often has to ask whom the narrator "is giving a write-up." Notwithstanding I am often told that I ought to get a professional "biographer" to write my life, I have concluded to write it myself. When I read about the battles of the Rebellion, "How Major A. T. Still charged on rebels with uplifted saber, urging his men to victory," I begin to doubt professional biographers, for I know there was not a saber drawn nor was there any yelling during a hard fight of two hours' duration between thirty thousand combatants on each side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Daniel Webster Cathell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396614354
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (143 download)
Download or read book The Physician Himself and What He Should Add to the Strictly Scientific (Classic Reprint) written by Daniel Webster Cathell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Physician Himself and What He Should Add to the Strictly Scientific The entire work has been written in the form of a reply to a question, for the purpose of making what is said, appear more direct and personal to the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : James Thacher
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656329021
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)
Download or read book American Medical Biography, Or Memoirs of Eminent Physicians Who Have Flourished in America written by James Thacher and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Medical Biography, or Memoirs of Eminent Physicians Who Have Flourished in America: To Which Is Prefixed a Succinct History of Medical Science in the United States, From the First Settlement of the Country Among the various sciences and literary pursuits of life, there is no one more pro-eminently important than that which is empha tically styled the healing art that which restores health, and brings comfort and joy to suffering humanity. It is an inestimable blessing, bestowed in mercy, to counterpoise the frail condition of our nature, and to meliorate or remedy the miseries which result from the indulgence of our vicious propensities. It assuages the anguish of corporeal disease, and soothes that keen mental distress which overwhelms the faculties of the soul. When we contem plate the condition of the inhabitants of the earth' in the primitive ages of the world, we are struck with the formidable embarrass ments which they were doomed to encounter. Unacquainted with the means of fortifying themselves against the numerous evils of life, they were continually exposed to casualties and disease, and at the same time destitute of such assistance as would afford the desired relief. Ignorant of the structure of the human frame, and of the laws of the animal economy, no rational method of cure could be devised, and their medical knowledge could consist only of an incongruous mixture of superstition and absurdities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : George H. Kress
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666072436
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (724 download)
Download or read book A History of the Medical Profession of Southern California written by George H. Kress and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Medical Profession of Southern California: With an Historical Sketch For on that day this forceful teacher, beloved by all, retired from the work. The younger physician who comes to Los Angeles from the East and from the North and the South should read these pages and by so doing he will gain a well merited respect for those who did the pioneer work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Richard Selzer
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140103052
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Taking the World in for Repairs written by Richard Selzer and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of a dozen short stories, essays, and memoirs originally published in 1986, and now available in trade paperback. Richard Selzer retired as a surgeon in 1984 to write about his profession. His books include Letters to a Young Doctor, Confessions of a Knife, Mortal Lessons, Rituals of Surgery, and most recent, Raising the Dead.
Author : Robert Klitzman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195327675
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book When Doctors Become Patients written by Robert Klitzman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound shift of awareness-- not only in their sense of their selves, which is invariably bound up with the "invincible doctor" role, but in the way that they view their patients and the doctor-patient relationship. While some books have been written from first-person perspectives on doctors who get sick-- by Oliver Sacks among them-- and TV shows like "House" touch on the topic, never has there been a "systematic, integrated look" at what the experience is like for doctors who get sick, and what it can teach us about our current health care system and more broadly, the experience of becoming ill.The psychiatrist Robert Klitzman here weaves together gripping first-person accounts of the experience of doctors who fall ill and see the other side of the coin, as a patient. The accounts reveal how dramatic this transformation can be-- a spiritual journey for some, a radical change of identity for others, and for some a new way of looking at the risks and benefits of treatment options. For most however it forever changes the way they treat their own patients. These questions are important not just on a human interest level, but for what they teach us about medicine in America today. While medical technology advances, the health care system itself has become more complex and frustrating, and physician-patient trust is at an all-time low. The experiences offered here are unique resource that point the way to a more humane future.
Author : Lewis Pinckney White
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334228780
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Physicians' Collection Guide written by Lewis Pinckney White and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Physicians' Collection Guide: A Practical Guide for the Physician in Collecting His Accounts Qwrapped up in their profession, that they lose sight of the financial side of their work. You hesitate about asking your patients to pay you promptly and let the account run along until there is little hope for recovery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
