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The Surgeon's Tale

Author : Cat Rambo
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809572680
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Surgeon's Tale written by Cat Rambo and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where magic is fading and science begun to ascend, a young surgeon in medical school experiences an obsession so forbidden that its realization will change him forever. "She looked as if she were asleep, still with that slight smile, floating on the thick sargassum, glowing from the emerald tincture that would keep the small crabs and other scavengers from her. She looked otherworldly and beautiful." Sometimes life is not enough. Also including five more stories of dark wonder from Rambo and VanderMeer, from "The Dead Girl's Wedding March" to "The Farmer's Cat." Enter a world of rat suitors, severed arms, and Fungi Et Fruits de Mer, served up with prose both appetizing and uncanny. Dark fantasy has never been quite so decadent . . .

Bare Bones

Author : Augusto Sarmiento
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615923616
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Bare Bones written by Augusto Sarmiento and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the 14th-century surgeon in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dr. Augusto Sarmiento has a tale to tell. This book is both an interesting autobiographical story of a young immigrant doctor's rise to success in the United States and a critique of recent trends in American medicine by someone who is now a recognized authority in orthopaedic surgery. Educated in his native Colombia, Dr. Sarmiento immigrated to the United States not long after receiving his medical degree. His early years were difficult as he struggled to overcome the language barrier and often encountered prejudice regarding his medical training in Latin America. Feeling like an outsider for many years, he finally came to realize that his unorthodox perspective on medicine was an asset that could be used to make significant contributions to his specialty. He was among the pioneers who brought total hip replacement surgery to the United States, and his research improved the profession's understanding of the way fractures heal. In time he was elected president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.As someone who has practiced medicine for almost fifty years on many levels he is profoundly disturbed by recent developments in the American healthcare scene. He is especially critical of the increasing control of education and research by the pharmaceutical industry, the unconscionable overuse of surgery by many practitioners in his field, and the greed factor that has saturated the medical profession. This modern surgeon's tale is both an inspirational story of how one man made a difference and a revealing critique of the ills affecting American medicine today.Augusto Sarmiento, M.D. (Miami, FL), is currently professor and chairman emeritus at the University of Miami Medical School. A world-recognized authority in orthopaedic surgery, he has won many awards and has been invited to lecture more than 500 times in over 40 countries.

A Surgeon's Story

Author : Roger Gosden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989719902
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book A Surgeon's Story written by Roger Gosden and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a renowned New York doctor, Robert T. Morris (1857-1945), who struggled with a reactionary profession to pioneer sterility, small incisions, and better wound-healing in surgery. Blessed with abundant energy, sagacity, and long life, he also achieved distinction as a naturalist, horticulturist, and explorer, celebrating nature with brilliant prose and poetry. For those days, Morris was a rare visionary, grounded in science and courageously fighting on the side of suffering humanity, though few remember him today. This is an updated edition of a 1935 classic, brimming with case histories starting from the late Victorian Age. The new book is annotated and illustrated, and includes previously unpublished chapters. "A man who had the courage to be an iconoclast for the purpose of safe-guarding humanity." New York Times (1935) "This is not a textbook but an arresting account of medicine and society in the not too distant past." Howard W. Jones, Jr., M.D., Johns Hopkins and Eastern Virginia Medical Schools (2013) "In 1935, Morris' book was a best-seller; this revision from Gosden and Walker (Morris' granddaughter) could easily do the same ... Far more of a human and social portrait than a medical text, this reissue fills the prescription for fascinating reading." Kirkus (September 16, 2014)

The Butchering Art

Author : Lindsey Fitzharris
Publisher : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374117292
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book The Butchering Art written by Lindsey Fitzharris and published by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of how Joseph Lister’s antiseptic method changed medicine forever

A Surgeon's Knot

Author : William Lynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684334322
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book A Surgeon's Knot written by William Lynes and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Surgeon's Knot is a story of responsibility, tragedy, and occasional terror, as a young physician deals with the pressure-filled world of today's surgery.

Complications

Author : Atul Gawande
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429972106
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Complications written by Atul Gawande and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Direct Red

Author : Gabriel Weston
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061991139
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Direct Red written by Gabriel Weston and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What a terrific book….[Weston] leaves you feeling that if push came to shove you’d want to be operated on by her.” —Nicholas Shakespeare, author of Bruce Chatwin: A Biography The continuing popularity of doctor shows on TV—from Scrubs, House, and Grey’s Anatomy to the television phenomenon ER—indicates a widespread fascination with all things medical. Direct Red, by practicing ear, nose, and throat surgical specialist Gabriel Weston, takes readers behind the scenes and into the operating room for a fascinating look at what really goes on on the other side of the hospital doors. “A Surgeon’s View of her Life-and-Death Profession,” Weston’s Direct Red is written not only with knowledge and insight, but with compassion, honesty, and literary flair.

Seeing Patients

Author : Augustus A. White, III
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0674241371
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Patients written by Augustus A. White, III and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A powerful and extraordinarily important book." --James P. Comer, MD "A marvelous personal journey that illuminates what it means to care for people of all races, religions, and cultures. The story of this man becomes the aspiration of all those who seek to minister not only to the body but also to the soul." --Jerome Groopman, MD, author of How Doctors Think Growing up in Jim Crow-era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in the world of medicine. While race relations have changed dramatically since then, old ways of thinking die hard. In this blend of memoir and manifesto, Dr. White draws on his experience as a resident at Stanford Medical School, a combat surgeon in Vietnam, and head orthopedic surgeon at one of Harvard's top teaching hospitals to make sense of the unconscious bias that riddles medical care, and to explore how we can do better in a diverse twenty-first-century America. "Gus White is many things--trailblazing physician, gifted surgeon, and freedom fighter. Seeing Patients demonstrates to the world what many of us already knew--that he is also a compelling storyteller. This powerful memoir weaves personal experience and scientific research to reveal how the enduring legacy of social inequality shapes America's medical field. For medical practitioners and patients alike, Dr. White offers both diagnosis and prescription." --Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Harvard University "A tour de force--a compelling story about race, health, and conquering inequality in medical care...Dr. White has a uniquely perceptive lens with which to see and understand unconscious bias in health care...His journey is so absorbing that you will not be able to put this book down." --Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., author of All Deliberate Speed

Open Heart

Author : Stephen Westaby
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0465094848
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Open Heart written by Stephen Westaby and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment is a crucial survival strategy in a profession where death is only a heartbeat away. In Open Heart, Westaby reflects on over 11,000 surgeries, showing us why the procedures have never become routine and will never be. With astonishing compassion, he recounts harrowing and sometimes hopeful stories from his operating room: we meet a pulseless man who lives with an electric heart pump, an expecting mother who refuses surgery unless the doctors let her pregnancy reach full term, and a baby who gets a heart transplant-only to die once it's in place. For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Open Heart offers a soul-baring account of a life spent in constant confrontation with death.

Code Red Fallujah

Author : Donnelly Wilkes M.D.
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1642938033
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Code Red Fallujah written by Donnelly Wilkes M.D. and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of April 4th, 2004, 1st Marine Expeditionary Forces launch a major assault on the city of Fallujah. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Donnelly Wilkes’s battalion leads the assault into Fallujah as he is positioned with Navy Corpsmen and Marines at the tactical highway intersection called “The Cloverleaf.” Rarely have U.S. military physicians been so close to combat in a major conflict as they were in the chaotic, embattled streets of Fallujah—Code Red Fallujah will take you there. Sharing the harrowing entries from his field diary, Wilkes becomes the first-ever Navy physician to recount the sights and sounds of one of the most violent events of the entire Iraq War. In heart-pounding detail, he divulges his struggles to save wounded warriors amidst rockets landing close enough to knock him off his feet. When Wilkes—fresh out of medical school—is suddenly thrust into this war zone, his skills, his faith, and his ability to endure are all put to the test. Code Red Fallujah is the firsthand narrative of Wilkes’s role in the Battle of Fallujah, scintillating combat trauma, and the spiritual challenges that pierced his journey.

Surgeon's Story

Author : Mark Oristano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935953777
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book Surgeon's Story written by Mark Oristano and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: oted pediatric heart surgeon Dr. Kristine Guleserian has opened up her OR, and her career, to author Mark Oristano to create SURGEON'S STORY. Dr. G's life, training and work are discussed in detail, framed around the incredibly dramatic story of a heart transplant operation for a two-year old girl whose own heart was rapidly dying.

King of Hearts

Author : G. Wayne Miller
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0609807242
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book King of Hearts written by G. Wayne Miller and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the invention of open-heart surgery, yet, until now, no journalist has ever brought all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph to life. This is the story of the surgeon many call the father of open-heart surgery, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, who, along with colleagues at University Hospital in Minneapolis and a small band of pioneers elsewhere, accomplished what many experts considered to be an impossible feat: He opened the heart, repaired fatal defects, and made the miraculous routine. Acclaimed author G. Wayne Miller draws on archival research and exclusive interviews with Lillehei and legendary pioneers such as Michael DeBakey and Christiaan Barnard, taking readers into the lives of these doctors and their patients as they progress toward their landmark achievement. In the tradition of works by Richard Rhodes and Tracy Kidder, King of Hearts tells the story of an important and gripping piece of forgotten science history.

The Surgeon

Author : Tess Gerritsen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345477262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book The Surgeon written by Tess Gerritsen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.

Surgeon & Lover

Author : Michael M. Meguid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999298824
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Surgeon & Lover written by Michael M. Meguid and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning ten decades, A Surgeon's Tale is a historical biography that reaches beyond the mere personal to convey something of the cultures, people, politics, and places that touch the inscrutable heart of human nature. This multifaceted immigrant's story percolates with tales of childhood neglect, intrigue, medical training, medical discoveries, scientific dishonesty, illicit romance, unspeakable scoundrels and murder, all the while disclosing the rites, rituals, rules and language of surgery. It is a story of life with all its warts, love and affection-or lack of it, but ultimately, it is a story of determination, persistence, triumph and passion."Though third in a historic biographic quartet, Surgeon & Lover: Fulfillment & Folly is a stand-alone memoir. It is the riveting story of a young man trying to find a rightful, deserving place for himself as he struggles with nearly incapacitating demons-scars left by damage inflicted in a rootless childhood. Meguid compensates with a ravenous ambition and the want for love to give him the equilibrium and self-justification he needs. Told with honesty, self-deprecation, humor and artistry, it is a portrait of a lonely, emotionally impoverished man in pain who works tirelessly to fight off his insecurities. We can't help but admire how he faces life head on and root for him all the way."-Jan Tramontano, The Me I was with You

Never Question the Miracle

Author : Rose-Marie Toussaint
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345407238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Never Question the Miracle written by Rose-Marie Toussaint and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people ask, "How did you get here?" I know they are really asking, "How did you, female of color from Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, get here?" Dr. Rose-Marie Toussaint is unique--a young black woman surgeon specializing in liver and kidney transplants at a major university hospital. How did she get there? In this amazing book Toussaint tells us. Her inspiring story starts when a vodun priest predicts she will grow up to be a physician, then chronicles her rise to the pinnacle of her profession. Rose-Marie's family struggled not only with her parents' chaotic marriage, but with the seismic changes that were beginning to grip their homeland. When the Toussaints emigrated to Miami, Rose-Marie immersed herself in science and math classes, and her dream of becoming a doctor began to take shape. But the road to her dream was littered with obstacles: getting into college, making good grades, getting into medical school, and surviving the grueling, soul-crushing rigors that test every surgeon in the making. Add to that Dr. Toussaint's status as a black female in white male-dominated institutions and one can only admire the courage, fortitude, and determination that propelled her to obtain her M.D.--with some help from a few miracles along the way. As a surgeon, it was her turn to become a miracle worker--for her patients. Dr. Toussaint takes us into hospital rooms to meet desperate patients praying for a life-giving organ, and into the OR to observe the wonder of transplantation. She vividly brings to life the breakneck race against time to prepare transplant patients when an organ suddenly becomes available, the long hours of surgery--sometimes more than 20--that both doctor and patient must endure. And she never forgets that for every life she saves another has been lost. This is a book full of miracles--not least, Rose-Marie Toussaint's own luminous spirit, which lights up every page. To share her journey is a rare opportunity to experience the faith and resilience of a woman dedicated to making miracles happen.

Did He Save Lives?

Author : David Sellu
Publisher : Sweetcroft Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781912892327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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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.

Under the Knife

Author : Arnold van de Laar
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473633672
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Under the Knife written by Arnold van de Laar and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody' The Sunday Times 'Utterly eccentric and riveting' Mail on Sunday 'Eye-opening and, frequently, eye-watering . . . a book that invites readers to peer up the bottoms of kings, into the souls of rock stars and down the ear canals of astronauts' The Daily Telegraph How did a decision made in the operating theatre spark hundreds of conspiracy theories about JFK? How did a backstage joke prove fatal to world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini? How did Queen Victoria change the course of surgical history? Through dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his experience and expertise to tell an incisive history of the past, present and future of surgery. From the dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, Under the Knife is both a rich cultural history, and a modern anatomy class for us all.