White Coat Tales
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-73079-0 (ISBN)
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This collection of intriguing stories offers profound insights into medical history. It highlights what all health professionals should know about the career path they have chosen. Each chapter presents a number of fascinating tales of legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, insightful clinical sayings, famous persons and their illnesses, and epic blunders made by physicians and scientists. The book relates the stories in history to what clinicians do in practice today and is ideal reading for physicians, residents, medical students and all clinicians.
Robert Taylor is well known and highly regarded in the field of Family Medicine. Dr. Taylor has more than 14 years in private practice and 26 years in academic medicine.
Heroes, Diseases, and Remedies.- Heroes in Medical History ab[Abstract.- Diseases That Changed History.- Drugs and Other Remedies.- The Heritage and Culture of Medicine.- Medical Words and Phrases.- Whose Syndrome? Stories of Medical Eponyms.- Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms, Euphemisms, Jargon, and Slang.- Medical Aphorisms.- Memorable Medical Quotations.- Clinical Notes and Medical Misadventures.- Famous Persons as Patients.- Short Tales of Serendipity, Curiosities, Medical Trivia, Authorship, and Speculation.- Misadventures: Myths, Misinformation, Blunders, and Wrongdoing.- Now and Future Practice.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.11.2007 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 3 black & white tables, biography |
| Verlagsort | New York, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 586 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-387-73079-6 / 0387730796 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-387-73079-0 / 9780387730790 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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