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Author: Daly Walker Publisher: ISBN: 9781951479442 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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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: Daly Walker Publisher: ISBN: 9781951479442 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
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: Kathryn Montgomery Hunter Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691214727 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 232
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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.
Author: Cat Rambo Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 0809572680 Category : Horror tales, American Languages : en Pages : 102
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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 . . .
Author: Atul Gawande Publisher: Profile Books ISBN: 1847651232 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 287
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The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. His vivid stories take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, to a polio outbreak in India and to malpractice courtrooms around the country. He discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors' participation in lethal injections, examines the influence of money on modern medicine and recounts the astoundingly contentious history of hand-washing. Finally, he gives a brutally honest insight into life as a practising surgeon. Unflinching but compassionate, Gawande's investigation into medical professionals and their progression from good to great provides a detailed blueprint for success that can be used by everyone.
Author: Zacharias Topelius Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com ISBN: 9781230059457 Category : Languages : en Pages : 90
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...indeed, do you remember the Dutchman last year who swallowed melted lead? I do not wish to'say too inuch--but just look! The black-haired nun is as pale as a corpse!" "Has she given the king poison?" exclaimed a trembling female voice close by. It was Meri, who, with bated breath, drank every word. " What nonsense!" replied a sea-captain, with the air of knowing more than all the rest. " When I was in Stralsund last spring, I saw those same eyes, which one cannot easily forget. The girl was then brought to Stockholm, and one of the guards told me the whole story. She is a Spanish witch, who has sold herself to the evil one, to be for seven years the most beautiful woman on earth. Only look at her: do you not see that the devil has kept his word? But see, in those eyes is something dark that burns and bewitches. When she became so handsome, she went to the Swedish camp and gave the king a love-potion, so that he neither heard nor saw anybody but her for seven whole weeks. This seemed to his generals a sin and a shame, as the enemy pressed them hard; and so they took her secretly one night and sent her here, to spend the seven years of beauty at Korsholm." " Did the king love her? " asked Meri, in agitation. "I think he did," answered the sea-captain, gruflly. " Did she also love the king?" " There surely are in the whole world no more curious people than women. How the deuce can you expect me to know all about it? the evil one is smarter than other folks, that is certain. She gave the king a copper ring." " With seven circles inside each other, and three letters, engraved on the plate? " " What the deuce!--do you know that...
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