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Medical Essays
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Paperback - $45.95
This paper was written in a great heat and with passionate indignation. If I touched it at all I might trim its rhetorical exuberance, but I prefer to leave it all its original strength of expression. I could not, if I had tried, have disguised the f ...
Life on Cripple Creek : Essays on Living with Multiple Sclerosis
Dean Kramer
Paperback - $30.95
In her first collection of essays, author Dean Kramer shares the victories and failures of day-to-day life with multiple sclerosis. At her home in rural Pennsylvania Kramer faces unexpected dilemmas, including choosing which shoes to wear when the ch ...
Kill as Few Patients as Possible : And Fifty-Six Other Essays on How to Be the World's Best Doctor
Oscar London
Hardcover - $24.95
The Midnight Meal : And Other Essays about Doctors, Patients, and Medicine
Jerome Lowenstein
Paperback - $46.95
In this book, an accomplished physician and teacher of medicine discusses the importance of being a "caring" doctor, especially now that the focus of medicine is increasingly on technological innovation and health care costs.
With wisdom and compas ...
A Country Doctor's Journal : Amazing Stories from Incredible Situations
Roger A. MacDonald
Paperback - $21.95
Three women go into labor at the same time, and there's only one doctor in town. A man with a chainsaw nearly cuts off his nose, and the nearest plastic surgeon is 150 miles away. It sounds spectacular to us, but it's all in a day's work for a countr ...
A Life Worth Living : A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era
Robert Martensen
Hardcover - $36.95
Symptoms of Unknown Origin : A Medical Odyssey
Clifton K. Meador
Paperback - $50.95
Filled with fascinating case histories, this book describes the authors encounters with patients who exhibited clear symptoms but had no definable disease. Dr. Clifton Meador explains how these cases led him to rethink his orthodox assumptions about ...