Author: Robert B. Taylor Publisher: Springer ISBN: 331929055X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 352
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This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today—the body’s “holy bone” and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that shortened the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. In addition to many new tales, this revised edition contains 128 illustrations, such as images of Baron von Münchhausen aloft with cannonballs and Vincent van Gogh’s portrait of his doctor showing a clue to the painter’s health. Read about legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, illnesses of famous persons, and some epic blunders of physicians and scientists. The author is Robert B. Taylor, MD, Emeritus Professor, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, and Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Taylor is the author and editor of more than 33 medical books. To see Dr. Taylor lecture on the history of medicine, go here: https://youtu.be/Zx4yaUyaPRA
Author: James Feinstein Publisher: FeinMind Media ISBN: 0985399201 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 230
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Most people will, at some point or another, either find themselves dressed in a tiny hospital gown or staring at someone else dressed in a tiny hospital gown. Whether from the perspective of a patient, a family member, or a medical professional, we all have a significant stake in the process of medical education. While numerous memoirs recount physicians’ grueling experiences during residency, few focus on the even more formative portion of medical training: the third year of medical school—the clinical year. Short White Coat: Lessons from Patients on Becoming a Doctor is the disarmingly honest, yet endearing and sometimes funny account of a medical student’s humbling initiation into the world of patient care. Written during his third year of medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, James Feinstein’s Short White Coat uses a series of engaging narrative essays to illustrate the universal life lessons that his very first patients teach him. He examines some of the most common issues and feelings that medical students encounter while learning how to meet, talk with, touch, and care for their patients. Along the way, he learns from his own mistakes before discovering the answer to the question that plagues every medical student: “Do I have what it takes to become a doctor?”
Author: George Saunders Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408837358 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 289
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The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.
Author: Madi Sinha Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593098196 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 370
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Grey’s Anatomy meets Scrubs in this brilliant debut novel about a young doctor’s struggle to survive residency, love, and life. Having spent the last twenty-something years with her nose in a textbook, brilliant and driven Norah Kapadia has just landed the medical residency of her dreams. But after a disastrous first day, she's ready to quit. Disgruntled patients, sleep deprivation, and her duty to be the "perfect Indian daughter" have her questioning her future as a doctor. Enter chief resident Ethan Cantor. He's everything Norah aspires to be: respected by the attending physicians, calm during emergencies, and charismatic with his patients. And as he morphs from Norah’s mentor to something more, it seems her luck is finally changing. But when a fatal medical mistake is made, pulling Norah into a cover-up, she must decide how far she’s willing to go to protect the secret. What if “doing no harm” means putting herself at risk?
Author: Olivia Campbell Publisher: Swift Press ISBN: 1800752474 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 350
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Meet the pioneering women who changed the medical landscape for us all For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionising the way women receive health care. In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness--a diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs or be received in polite society. Motivated by personal loss and frustration over inadequate medical care, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sophia Jex-Blake fought for a woman's place in the male-dominated medical field. For the first time ever, Women in White Coats tells the complete history of these three pioneering women who, despite countless obstacles, earned medical degrees and paved the way for other women to do the same. Though very different in personality and circumstance, together these women built women-run hospitals and teaching colleges - creating for the first time medical care for women by women. With gripping storytelling based on extensive research and access to archival documents, Women in White Coats tells the courageous history these women made by becoming doctors, detailing the boundaries they broke of gender and science to reshape how we receive medical care today.
Author: Tim Lebbon Publisher: Night Shade ISBN: 9781892389305 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 44
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WHITE AND OTHER TALES OF RUIN collects together six of Tim Lebbon's novellas, two of them brand new to this collection. From the all-powerful natural horrors of The First Law, to the man-made terrors of The Origin of Truth, this collection explores existence at the very edge of survival ... for humankind itself. The British Fantasy Award-winning White gives an ambiguous vision of a frozen hell-on-earth, while the new novella Hell locates it even nearer to our hearts. From Bad Flesh tells of diseased flesh, while the brand new Mannequin Man and the Plastic Bitch contains many maladies of the mind, most of them considered normal in the sick world it inhabits ... Contents: * White * From Bad Flesh * Hell (original) * The First Law * The Origin of Truth * Mannequin Man and the Plastic Bitch (original) Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
Author: Edmund Messina Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781502456625 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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What is it really like to go through medical training? The Spattered White Coat is the author's account of life as a medical student and intern in the some of the most intense urban hospitals, under the most demanding of teachers, in the setting of drastic social change, escalating drug use and exploding crime statistics. Lessons in life are discreet events. Some are wonderful and others will break your heart. Medical training is a collection of those very events that will change a person forever. This is especially true when a young, impressionable medical student learns to be a healer of junkies, hookers, innocent victims and spoiled rich people. "He held her as she died. The nurses and I watched from a distance and I turned off the alarm on her heart monitor when it began to beep. Through my tears, I watched her dying EKG tracing slow down and stop." The deeply moving vignettes in The Spattered White Coat portray the most extreme patient experiences and adverse social forces that forged the cognitive and emotional growth of the young doctor as he passed through the wards, emergency rooms, and operating rooms of the dark and demanding world of inner-city academic medicine. The realms of intensive care and near-death experiences are explored, as is the tragedy of lives lost to addiction and ignorance. The author relates detailed and sometimes humorous stories such as The Man Who Killed a Corpse, fascinating academic tales such as The Man Without a Left Side, or tragic accounts such as The Doctor Who Was Too Smart, The Surgeon Who Couldn't Cut Straight, and dozens of others. This book will help the non-medical public understand how a doctor-in-training evolves from a naive trainee to a confident clinician, protected by a touch of evolving cynicism. The book appeals to the general non-medical public as well as clinical people. Non-medical readers will better understand how their doctors came to be; doctors and nurses will find these stories very familiar. What makes The Spattered White Coat unique is the informal conversational style that differs from other books in this genre. The easy-going voice in Dr. Messina's writing helps to demystify the medical mystique and allows the reader to better identify with the young doctor. The author conveys the joy and sense of privilege of being allowed to learn and practice medicine. This book is not bitter or angry; it conveys the author's true love of the Healing Art.
Author: J.P. Stassen Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9781596431034 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 108
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Deogratias is just a boy. Benina is just a girl. Teenagers just like teenagers everywhere. Only he is a Hutu, and she is a Tutsiso say their ID cards.We are in Rwanda in the days leading to a swift and gruesome genocide which the world will watch but do nothing to stop. In less than a hundred days, eight hundred thousand human beings will be hacked to death.Moment by moment, piece by piece, J.P. Stassen skillfully builds a masterpiece, an unforgettable tale that probes mans inhumanity to man. His eloquence, his storytelling power, and his sheer poetry elevate this harrowing story to the rank of a testimonial to one of the darkest chapters in recent human history.With great skill and understanding, Stassens Deogratias takes us back and forth in time, showing only before and after the killings and inexorably revealing the grip of madness and horror on one young boy and his country.Difficult, beautiful, honest, and heartbreaking, this is a masterwork by a major artist of our time.
Author: Dr. Christle Nwora Publisher: Neon Squid ISBN: 1684492041 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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A STEM-rich nonfiction story by Dr. Christle Nwora showing what happens at a hospital all day, following doctors, nurses, and patients—perfect for kids nervous about a trip to the hospital.
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