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[2] Pauline Chen reviewed the book for The New York Times, noting that Sanders "takes readers on an examination of the tools of diagnosis, touching upon the obvious and the not-so-obvious". [3] Druin Burch, for New Scientist, wrote that the book puts medical rarities "into a wider context, offering up a profound view of how doctors think". [4]
My Own Country. My Own Country: A Doctor's Story is Abraham Verghese's first book. [1] First published in 1994, it made that year's New York Times Notable Book list. [2] It is used in colleges and medical schools throughout North America and across the world because of the way it communicates the sense of empathy and compassion so often missing in medical school education in an era of high ...
The Doctor Stories is an eclectic collection of 13 works of short fiction by William Carlos Williams published by New Directions Publishing in 1984. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The stories are representative of Williams’ autobiographical physician-patient narratives that characterize much of his short fiction.
Many people applaud Gawande's writing style, in which he goes into detail over the medical procedures he discusses while simultaneously going over ethical and medical problems present in current health care. Dr. Robert Crowell from University of Massachusetts Medical School writes about this in his review, describing Gawande's writing style as ...
In 2010, Cory Friedman published a young adult version of Against Medical Advice with Patterson, entitled Med Head: My Knock-Down Drag-Out Drugged-Up Battle with My Brain. [6] The book was released on April 1, 2010, and received a positive review from TeenReads and Kirkus Reviews , who called it a "perfect prescription for misery-memoir maniacs".
Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine is a book about six of India's first Indian female physicians in Western medicine.It was written by journalist, author and lawyer Kavitha Rao, and first published in 2021 by Westland Books in India, and in the UK by Jacaranda Books in 2023.
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Sector General was founded to promote inter-species harmony, [1] and therefore all medical staff must be prepared to treat beings with very different physiologies and behavior patterns, and sometimes with environmental requirements that would be lethal to staff without suitable protection.