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Author : Sir John Bland-Sutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Story of a Surgeon written by Sir John Bland-Sutton and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aubré de L. Maynard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Surgeons to the Poor written by Aubré de L. Maynard and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Douglas Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780909134761
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book A Surgeon's Story written by Sir Douglas Miller and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles F. Bove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Paris Surgeon's Story written by Charles F. Bove and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Bartelme
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080704492X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A Surgeon in the Village written by Tony Bartelme and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “lyrical, inspirational” story of doctors who changed the health care of an African nation (Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation) Dr. Dilan Ellegala arrives in Tanzania, shocked to find the entire country has just three brain surgeons for its population of forty-two million. Haydom Lutheran Hospital lacks even the most basic surgical tools, not even a saw to open a patient’s skull. Here, people with head injuries or brain tumors heal on their own or die. When confronted with a villager suffering from a severe head trauma, Dilan buys a tree saw from a farmer, sterilizes it, and then uses it to save the man’s life. Yet Dilan realizes that there are far too many neurosurgery patients for one person to save, and of course he will soon be leaving Tanzania. He needs to teach someone his skills. He identifies a potential student in Emmanuel Mayegga, a stubborn assistant medical officer who grew up in a mud hut. Though Mayegga has no medical degree, Dilan sees that Mayegga has the dexterity, intelligence, and determination to do brain surgery. Over six months, he teaches Mayegga how to remove tumors and treat hydrocephalus. And then, perhaps more important, Dilan teaches Mayegga how to pass on his newfound skills. Mayegga teaches a second Tanzanian, who teaches a third. It’s a case of teach-a-man-to-fish meets brain surgery. As he guides these Tanzanians to do things they never thought possible, Dilan challenges the Western medical establishment to do more than send vacationing doctors on short-term medical missions. He discovers solutions that could transform health care for two billion people across the world. A Surgeon in the Village is the incredible and riveting account of one man’s push to “train-forward”—to change our approach to aid and medical training before more lives are needlessly lost. His story is a testament to the transformational power of teaching and the ever-present potential for change. As many as seventeen million people die every year because of a shortage of surgeons, more than die from AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. Dilan Ellegala and other visionaries are boldly proposing ways of saving lives.
Author : David Sellu
Publisher : Sweetcroft Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781912892327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Did He Save Lives? written by David Sellu and published by Sweetcroft Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Sellu was a surgeon with a distinguished record extending over forty years.
Author : Daly Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951479442
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Surgeon Stories written by Daly Walker and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daly Walker s Surgeon Stories is a book of the body, and the physician, particularly the surgeon, is the shaman of the body. For many of us, the physician-surgeon has been the body's personal champion and sometimes savior in the face of disease, accident, aging, human violence, and war. While most of these categories of threat are inevitably faced by all of us, war is the ultimate ogre, and its ravages dwarf and challenge even the most skilled physician.Himself both a surgeon and a Vietnam veteran, Daly Walker's stories in this powerful and artful collection compel us to consider the power of war as it slices through both the body and the sense of self. His two book-end stories spotlight the failure of generation after human generation to end wars, but they also illumine the ability of the shaman, while flawed like every human, to open wide the doors of compassion.
Author : Mohamed Khadra
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442959002
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Making the Cut written by Mohamed Khadra and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-04-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be a surgeon is to stand, without flinching, in the sea of human suffering and use one's entire resource of knowledge, skill and intelligence to battle it. An intern makes his first cut and is ridiculed by his tutor. An old woman is brought back to life against her will, only for the unexpected to strike a week later. A notorious surgeon is driven crazy by a massive brain tumour. The mother of a leukemia-ridden child is driven to desperation In this compelling and beautifully written impressionistic memoir, Mohamed Khadra recounts stories from his life as a surgeon, from the gruelling years of training to the debilitating sleepless nights on call. He looks back at the doctors and patients who shaped his career; at the endless stream of humanity - courageous, pitiful, admirable and dislikable - who passed under his knife, as he recalls shocking tales of mistakes in theatre and the shattered lives of doctors defeated by the stresses of the job. Documenting the damaging politics in our healthcare system, the soul-destroying choices made for patients and the misplaced hope so common in the face of death, his dramatic account of a surgical life shows what happens when extraordinary events overtake everyday lives - including, even, his own.
Author : William G. Cahan
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book No Stranger to Tears written by William G. Cahan and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1992 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here are the stories of a world-class surgeon who has been on the frontlines of medicine for over fifty years. In a candid, moving, and often funny memoir from behind the surgeon's mask, he recounts episodes in a life that stretches from his roots on the Lower East Side of New York City to the glittering international worlds of science and the arts." "A family tragedy touched off the young Cahan's desire to be a doctor. He studied at Harvard, expanded his experience in the Air Corps during World War II, and ultimately joined the renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. While his training introduced him to medicine's underworld of anti-Semitism, he emerged from it with a strong will to succeed and with an obsession to conquer cancer, which he calls the "ancient, guile-ridden, unsentimental" disease. In addition to developing innovations in surgical techniques, he detected a connection between exposure to radiation and cancer that led him to become a lifelong sleuth in the mysterious realm of carcinogens - and the tobacco industry's fiercest enemy." "Always, however, at the heart of his work are his patients. He movingly describes the intense and delicate doctor-patient relationship, which, although often too full of heartbreaks, frustrations, and failed dreams, is also marked by triumphs that testify to the curative power of sustained optimism and hope." "Dr. Cahan writes engagingly of the people in his life. Married first to the daughter of the legendary stage star Gertrude Lawrence, and now to Grace Mirabella, publication director of the magazine that bears her name, Dr. Cahan has counted among his friends and/or patients such well-known personalities as Alan Jay Lerner, Leonard Bernstein, Anthony Eden, Mario Lanza, Yul Brynner, Babe Paley, Melvyn Douglas, Hubert Humphrey, and Babe Ruth." "This book is also the story of Dr. Cahan's two sons: Chris, who chose a different career as a television producer, and Anthony, who followed in his father's footsteps but created an identity all his own." "The education of more than one surgeon is told here, drawing the reader into the operating room, the lab, the thinking, the politics, and especially the heart of medicine."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Richard Selzer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312204037
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Doctor Stories written by Richard Selzer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selzer's selection of his own short stories, culled from three decades of writing, includes two new stories and an Introduction detailing his literary beginnings.
Author : Kevin Nicholas McNamara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473069087
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book No Wheels written by Kevin Nicholas McNamara and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kurt Newman, M.D.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143110039
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Healing Children written by Kurt Newman, M.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Bestseller An “astounding and miraculous ” (Madeline Levine) medical memoir by one of our nation’s leading pediatric surgeons-- the visionary head of Children’s National Anyone who has seen a child recover from a wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made to heal. Their bodies are more resilient, more adaptive, and far more able to withstand acute stress than adults’. In this inspiring memoir, Dr. Kurt Newman draws from his long experience as a pediatric surgeon working at one of our nation’s top children’s hospitals to make the case that children are more than miniature adults. Through the story of his own career and of the brave kids he has treated over the years—and their equally brave and tenacious parents—he reveals the revolution that is taking place in pediatric medicine. When he decided to become a pediatric surgeon, the field was in its infancy, struggling for esteem. Now, nearly forty years later, it is at the forefront of exhilarating new discoveries in everything from cancer research to mental health care. But few parents know how to access the best care for their children. Far too many find themselves frustrated and afraid. Dr. Newman wrote this book to help guide parents—not just of sick kids but of all kids —and to share his knowledge of what children need to thrive. A deeply human story with a spectacular cast of young heroes and heroines, Healing Children will convince you that we still have a lot to learn from our kids.
Author : William A. Nolen
Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780440154556
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (545 download)
Download or read book The Making of a Surgeon written by William A. Nolen and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1980-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of a Surgeon is the memoir of an apprentice. It is William Nolen's story of his transformation from student to practitioner, from a brash medical school graduate to a surgeon possessing skill and judgment. And, as in the best memoirs, in the brilliant flash of his self-discovery, William Nolen illuminates the world outside himself.
Author : Robert Campbell Begg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (144 download)
Download or read book The Secret of the Knife written by Robert Campbell Begg and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ira Rutkow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501163760
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Empire of the Scalpel written by Ira Rutkow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the “by turns fascinating and ghastly” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) story of surgery’s development—from the Stone Age to the present day—blending meticulous medical research with vivid storytelling. There are not many life events that can be as simultaneously frightening and hopeful as a surgical operation. In America, tens-of-millions of major surgical procedures are performed annually, yet few of us consider the magnitude of these figures because we have such inherent confidence in surgeons. And, despite passionate debates about health care and the media’s endless fascination with surgery, most of us have no idea how the first surgeons came to be because the story of surgery has never been fully told. Now, Empire of the Scalpel elegantly reveals surgery’s fascinating evolution from its early roots in ancient Egypt to its refinement in Europe and rise to scientific dominance in the United States. From the 16th-century saga of Andreas Vesalius and his crusade to accurately describe human anatomy while appeasing the conservative clergy who clamored for his burning at the stake, to the hard-to-believe story of late-19th century surgeons’ apathy to Joseph Lister’s innovation of antisepsis and how this indifference led to thousands of unnecessary surgical deaths, Empire of the Scalpel is both a global history and a uniquely American tale. You’ll discover how in the 20th century the US achieved surgical leadership, heralded by Harvard’s Joseph Murray and his Nobel Prize–winning, seemingly impossible feat of transplanting a kidney, which ushered in a new era of transplants that continues to make procedures once thought insurmountable into achievable successes. Today, the list of possible operations is almost infinite—from knee and hip replacement to heart bypass and transplants to fat reduction and rhinoplasty—and “Rutkow has a raconteur’s touch” (San Francisco Chronicle) as he draws on his five-decade career to show us how we got here. Comprehensive, authoritative, and captivating, Empire of the Scalpel is “a fascinating, well-rendered story of how the once-impossible became a daily reality” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Author : Richard Karl
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439904375
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Across The Red Line written by Richard Karl and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Lewis Thomas' The Lives of a Cell, a beautiful book on what it's like to be a surgeon.
Author : Brownell Wheeler
Publisher : Meredith Winter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780692269367
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (693 download)
Download or read book One Life, Many Deaths written by Brownell Wheeler and published by Meredith Winter Press. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the path of his life unfolds, from a farm in the hills of Eastern Kentucky to the pinnacles of academic medicine, a surgeon's childhood panic about death is gradually transformed into a mature peace with mortality. Not only is his encounters with patients - from a gypsy patriarch to a homeless pauper - but also near-death experiences, premonitions, and other psychic phenomena, contributed to a growing sense of wonder, mystery, sometimes beauty, and above all serenity in the face of an inescapable human experience, death. The latter chapters, written after the author developed Parkinson's disease, describe how this physician, scientist, administrator, and increasingly spiritual seeker plans to live a full and happy life, and have a "good death" when the time comes.
