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The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Sir Frederick Treves
epub |eng | 1923-12-13 | Author:Sir Frederick Treves

VI A SEA LOVER VI A SEA LOVER THE MAN I would tell about was a mining engineer some forty and odd years of age. Most of his active life ...
( Category: Medical January 8,2023 )
A Caring Life by Keith Cox
epub |eng | 2022-03-23 | Author:Keith Cox

FRED HOLLOWS (1929–1993) Famous eye surgeon Fred Hollows had been diagnosed with renal cancer in the late ’80s and already had a kidney removed, but his prognosis had looked pretty ...
( Category: Medical January 7,2023 )
The Midwife's Sister by Christine Lee
epub |eng | | Author:Christine Lee

Ronnie Early one evening in the late spring of 1962, as I was sitting with Joanna playing on the floor, there was a knock on the door. My father answered, ...
( Category: Medical January 7,2023 )
Get Well Soon! by Kristy Chambers
epub |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Kristy Chambers

The Tampon I’m pretty sure nobody told me about this sort of thing when I was studying. I could clearly recall lectures about pressure sores, and the different kinds of ...
( Category: Medical January 5,2023 )
Scrubbed by Nikki Stamp
epub |eng | 2022-03-21 | Author:Nikki Stamp [Dr Nikki Stamp]

CRITICAL REFLECTION QUESTION What do you observe about the life of a cardiothoracic surgeon in this case study? I was enjoying my weekend, amazingly not at work. I was actually ...
( Category: Medical January 1,2023 )
The Last Doctor by Jean Marmoreo & Johanna Schneller
epub |eng | 2022-09-27 | Author:Jean Marmoreo & Johanna Schneller [Marmoreo, Jean & Schneller, Johanna]

CHAPTER EIGHT Tom Thomas Allen Fraser, age sixty-two, had a few character traits in common with Thor. They were both sociable, strong-willed, and certain of what they wanted. But their ...
( Category: Medical January 1,2023 )
Holding the Line by Ronny Jackson
epub |eng | 2022-04-20 | Author:Ronny Jackson [Jackson, Ronny]

5. Monday night before the 2016 presidential election, I was with President Obama at a Hillary Clinton rally at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and we were standing backstage. Hillary, Bill, ...
( Category: Medical December 2,2022 )
Wide Neighborhoods by Mary Breckinridge
epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Mary Breckinridge

A proud new father and his daughter, age five minutes, at Mary Breckinridge Hospital. More than 350 babies were born at the hospital in 1980. Home deliveries are now rare. ...
( Category: Medical October 1,2022 )
Are You My Guru? by Wendy Shanker
epub |eng | 2010-07-27 | Author:Wendy Shanker

JANUARY 2004 Stitched up, unemployed, and quarantined from others’ germs in my apartment, I started Dapsone, a prophylactic (hee, hee) drug meant to protect me from contracting pneumonia while my ...
( Category: Medical October 1,2022 )
Bringing Culture into Care by Bradford Haami
epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Bradford Haami

NINE Expanding Horizons One group Amohaere greatly admired for their loving work with the children in Princess Mary Hospital and later at Starship were the grandparent volunteers. This was a ...
( Category: Medical October 1,2022 )
Bryson City Seasons: More Tales of a Doctors Practice in the Smoky Mountains by Walt Larimore MD
epub |eng | | Author:Walt Larimore, MD

chapter twenty-one THE LITTLEST CHEROKEE The heart rate dropped, as did my hope of saving this baby. Mrs. Black Fox’s haunting chants only increased my anxiety as the sweat ran ...
( Category: Medical October 1,2022 )
Good in a Crisis by Margaret Overton
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Overton

Chapter Twelve Every time I go to a fiftieth birthday party, I bring the same gift—a funny card, and a copy of a humor piece by Steve Martin that appeared ...
( Category: Medical September 30,2022 )
A Slender Thread by Diane Ackerman
epub |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Diane Ackerman [Ackerman, Diane]

* There are many schools of thought about what causes schizophrenia, a calamitous illness that afflicts 2.3 million people in the United States alone. Most researchers believe that an abnormality ...
( Category: Suicide August 6,2020 )
One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman
epub |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:Diane Ackerman

CHAPTER 17 IN THE CUBBYHOLES OF A LIBRARY CLOSET, I STORED YARN, gift wrap, and all sorts of presents (from the nifty to the impossibly hedonistic) for friends and relations, ...
( Category: Neurology August 6,2020 )
The Art and Politics of Science by Harold Varmus
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Harold Varmus

CHAPTER 11 Priority Setting ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT ASPECTS OF THE JOB OF RUNNING THE NIH, or of directing any individual institute, is the designation of research priorities. This ...
( Category: Medical August 6,2020 )

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