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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.
Book Synopsis The Doctor Stories by : Richard Selzer
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.
Book Synopsis Doctors' Stories by : Kathryn Montgomery Hunter
Download or read book Doctors' Stories written by Kathryn Montgomery Hunter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? What becomes of the patient's story when the patient becomes a case? Addressing readers on both sides of the patient-physician encounter, Kathryn Hunter looks at medicine as an art that relies heavily on telling and interpreting a story--the patient's story of illness and its symptoms.
Download or read book Across the Red Line written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Karl, a doctor and teacher, takes the reader closer than any writer before into the corridors of the hospital, on the surgical table, and into the world of medicine. In these pages we see the tragedies and triumphs of modern medicine: the beauty of surgery done well, and the aftermath of operations that fail to deliver on the hopes of the doctor and patient. We witness the "M & M"--The morbidity and mortality meeting--where doctors scrutinize their own work and mistakes, and the often inevitable outcomes of treatment. Suffused throughout are Karl's keen observations on the workings of the human body and its immense capacity for healing." ... I celebrate the rich privilege accorded the practicing surgeon. The surgical life is really about bearing witness to the human condition and about respecting the many almost whimsical variations of biology and about the intersection of the two. It is remarkable, really, the way I get to know people so intimately so quickly, and to observe the brave and often noble behavior in them, while I witness the relentless push of biology, the aging and decay, the growth and development, but most especially the healing, both physical and emotional. It is this natural drive of our bodies to repair themselves from all injuries (including the surgeon's wounds) that is the centerpiece of medicine. Without it no surgeon could cut." Written with economy and subtlety, Across the Red Line offers a vivid picture of disease and the miracle of life. It will interest anyone who's ever been on either side of the surgical table.
Book Synopsis An Orthopedic Surgeon's Story of the Great War by : Hiram Winnett Orr
Download or read book An Orthopedic Surgeon's Story of the Great War written by Hiram Winnett Orr and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of a Surgeon by : Sir John Bland-Sutton
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:
Book Synopsis Across The Red Line by : Richard Karl
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.
Download or read book Hands and Heart written by Michael DeHaan and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hands and Heart is a collection of sometimes extraordinary, often heartwarming stories of dedication, heroism, stress, exhaustion, joy, and occasional defeat. The book takes you along on a journey of everyday life as viewed through the eyes of a general surgeon: As I entered, I could hear the faintest breathing from the patient. As the anesthesiologist quietly confirmed my suspicion that he could not get the breathing tube in, the patient took his last breath and passed out. The clock was now running. I sprayed the antiseptic on the neck, took the scalpel, and opened the recent incision. A whole lot of blood came out. The windpipe was now lying almost completely free in the middle of the incision. With the clock still running, I made an incision in the airway and slipped the breathing tube in. We immediately started getting oxygen by "bagging" the patient. The oxygen level we were monitoring in his blood came back and he woke up.... "Nice work, wooden shoe!" About the author: Michael DeHaan has been practicing general surgery for 22 years in the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Hands and Heart is his first published collection of stories of the sometimes stressful, but always miraculous, world of general surgery.
Download or read book Complications written by Atul Gawande and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international bestseller from the author of Being Mortal In these gripping accounts of true cases, bestselling author Atul Gawande performs exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealised form, but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made: operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone. 'Written as tautly as a thriller' Observer
Book Synopsis The Surgeon's Wife by : William H. Coles
Download or read book The Surgeon's Wife written by William H. Coles and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Boudreaux, as a trauma surgeon Chief of Service, must discipline an impaired surgeon performing unnecessary and dangerous surgery for the obese. He is Boudreauxs former teacher and mentor, and Boudreaux falls in love with his young, beautiful, New-Orleans-socially-prominent wife. Boudreaux cannot hide the adulterous affair that erodes his career authority and reputation. Family and society reject the woman he loves unconditionally; when she moves in with Boudreaux, her rebellious daughter disappears. As Boudreaux tries to retrieve and convince the daughter to support her mother, the jealous husband's surgical career declines; a young patient dies; the public is outraged. The crazed husband blames his wife and Boudreaux for his decline and threatens violent revenge. The couple plans marriage and strains to regain pride and confidence amidst the hostility of accusatory taunts of friends, family and society.
Book Synopsis Bella's Heart Surgery Story by : Victoria Love
Download or read book Bella's Heart Surgery Story written by Victoria Love and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a pregnant mother gettng ready to have her first child, the only wish a mother has is to have a healthy baby. This book tells a true story about the journey a mother and her newborn had to take after the baby was detected having a heart murmur and needed heart surgery. It tells the trails and tribulations the mother had to make to ensure her baby would make it.
Book Synopsis Stories on the Benefits and Hazards of Cosmetic Surgery by : Joseph Weinstein MD
Download or read book Stories on the Benefits and Hazards of Cosmetic Surgery written by Joseph Weinstein MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout recorded history different civilizations ranging from the ancient Middle East and the Hellenistic world to the Renaissance and moderm times have admired youthful beauty. They have voiced their admiration in literature and art. The medical advances of the 20th century have enabled surgeons to safely restore the youthful facial features of aging individuals, as well as correcting the many bodily changes that accompany advancing age. Based on his experience as a plastic surgeon over a period of more than forty years in Israel, the author has vividly described both the benefits and hazards of cosmetic surgery in several short stories.
Book Synopsis The Doctor's Dilemma by : Daly Walker
Download or read book The Doctor's Dilemma 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:
Book Synopsis The Soul of Medicine by : Sherwin B. Nuland
Download or read book The Soul of Medicine written by Sherwin B. Nuland and published by Kaplan Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like all doctors, Sherwin Nuland collects stories, and over thirty years in the practice of surgery, he has collected a consider number of both his own stories as well as the stories of surgeons he has worked with and admires. The remarkable stories told in this book are filled with the lessons of humanity. They describe that sacrosanct connection between two people we call the doctor-patient relationship, and that othe relationship between the mentor and student, so important to the perpetuation of medical knowledge, judgement, wisdom and character. Doctors have peculiar ways of approaching certain kinds of problems, and many of those ways are captured with with grace and elequence in The Soul of Medicine.
Book Synopsis A Few Small Moments by : Carol E. H. Scott-Conner
Download or read book A Few Small Moments written by Carol E. H. Scott-Conner and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short stories are set in the surgical service of a major teaching hospital. Each story explores a "few small moments" in the intimate space in which surgeon and patient, surgeon and colleague, or professor and student come together. The stories provide a loose narrative if read in the order printed. Read individually, each provides privileged glimpses into the surgical life. The book concludes with a section for students interested in pursuing a career in surgery. A short glossary of surgical terms rounds out the book.
Book Synopsis The True Story of the Great European War by : Charles McClellan Stevens
Download or read book The True Story of the Great European War written by Charles McClellan Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Echoes from the Operating Room by : Carl R. Boyd
Download or read book Echoes from the Operating Room written by Carl R. Boyd and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day in every operating room, the same names are spoken over and over again. These names are the names of the great surgical innovators and teachers of the past. Surgeons call out for Kocher clamps and Deaver retractors. They perform Billroth gastric resections and Bassini hernia repairs. Those names have echoed from the sterile environments of operating rooms for over a hundred years. In Echoes from the Operating Room, Dr. Boyd tells the stories of the principal events and great men of surgery and science and their accomplishments in a concise and compelling style. From the sad story of the men who discovered anesthesia to the romantic reason rubber gloves were first worn by surgeons, the historical highlights that form the basis of modern surgery are brought to life. Every historical vignette concludes with a famous aphorism. Surgeons, nurses, medical students, and surgeons in training will find these stories essential to their heritage, and the public will be drawn in to that sacred and serious place where the stories unfold.