The Deadly Dinner Party : And Other Medical Detective Stories /

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The world is filled with bizarre and fascinating ways to fall ill. A notorious stomach bug turns a suburban dinner party into a disaster that almost claims its host; a diminutive woman routinely eats more than her football-playing boyfriend but continually loses weight; a young executive is diagnose...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edlow, Jonathan A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2010.
Temas:
Diagnosis > Popular works.
Diagnosis, Differential > Popular works.
Medicine > Case studies.
Diagnostics > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Diagnostics différentiels > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Médecine > Études de cas.
MEDICAL > Laboratory Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diagnosis.
MEDICAL > Nursing > Assessment & Diagnosis.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential
Medicine
Case studies
Popular works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The world is filled with bizarre and fascinating ways to fall ill. A notorious stomach bug turns a suburban dinner party into a disaster that almost claims its host; a diminutive woman routinely eats more than her football-playing boyfriend but continually loses weight; a young executive is diagnosed with lung cancer, yet the tumors seem to wax and wane inexplicably. In these fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories, practicing physician and award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gri.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (245 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index.
ISBN:9781742232461
1742232469

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