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9. Harpooning the Whale On November 24, 2011, the British newspaper the Daily Mail reported that Arthur Berkowitz, a 57-year-old passenger on US Airways Flight 901, had to stand for ...

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JOKE MAN The police called to say they found my patient in a motel room with sleeping pills and a bottle of vodka. He left a note of apology and ...

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CHAPTER 12 Why Dr. Codman Got Fired There are very good reasons why we refer to the big picture as “health care” and not “disease reduction,” “pain alleviation,” or “organic ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:James Merlino [Merlino, James]

Chapter 8 Want to Know What Patients Think? Ask! In December 2010, I received a letter from the husband of a deceased patient who said the Clinic had failed his ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-19 | Author:Sana Goldberg

Choosing Your Emergency Room In many emergency situations (such as broken bones or blunt traumas), your capacity to make decisions about where you’re taken and who’s consulted will be compromised. ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-09 | Author:Peter A. Ubel

Part III From Empowerment to Partnership Chapter Eight Getting Good Advice Isaac Palmer lay in his hospital bed at the Mayo Clinic only remotely aware of his surroundings, a wide ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Eric Manheimer [Manheimer, Eric]

That was the last time I saw her before Irene’s death. I still could not believe it. Marta’s aged mother had gone home, against all odds. And now the joy ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-09 | Author:Nortin M. Hadler [Hadler, Nortin M.]

tioned as the primary-care practitioners of the day (and seek to do so yet again). All sorts of potions were purveyed. The nineteenth century may have witnessed Pasteur and Joseph ...

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Let me try to explain what I mean by ‘the clerk of the foresters’ records’. ‘Where you’re different Doc is I know I can say Fuck You to your face ...

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Spring By early April I was feeling stronger than at any time since the diagnosis. Ron Olson, my fellow Mayo board member and the first to know, called on a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Randy Christensen, M.D.

Finally, in November, Reed and Janie were allowed to come home. Their two months in the neonatal unit were a memory both Amy and I wanted to put behind us ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Jerome Groopman & Pamela Hartzband & Md Pamela [Groopman, Jerome & Hartzband, Pamela & Pamela, Md]

After Mary’s death, Deidre spent much time reflecting on what had happened. We asked her if another loved one became seriously ill, would she handle things any differently from the ...

epub |eng | 1998-07-14 | Author:Ruth Rosen [Rosen, Ruth]

Numerous other prophecies describe a multitude of details about the Messiah. Even such a minute event as the dividing of his garments at his death was foretold hundreds of years ...

mobi |eng | 2011-08-05 | Author:Jerome Groopman

After Mary’s death, Deidre spent much time reflecting on what had happened. We asked her if another loved one became seriously ill, would she handle things any differently from the ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Ruth Rosen

Numerous other prophecies describe a multitude of details about the Messiah. Even such a minute event as the dividing of his garments at his death was foretold hundreds of years ...