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The staff and the serpent : pertinent and impertinent observations on the world of medicine /
Weisse tackles medical ethics, offers advice to medical and premedical students and their families, delves into unusual episodes of medical history, confronts considerations of aging and self-image, and discusses the vagaries of rewards and recognition available from medical research. He also examin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Greetings
- 2. Betrayal
- 3. Vanishing Male
- 4. Pneumocystis and Me: The Small Joys and Great Satisfactions of Medical Sleuthing
- 5. Tuberculosis: Why "The White Plague"? (Another Detective Story)
- 6. Say It Isn't "No": The Power of Positive Thinking in the Publication of Medical Research
- 7. Beyond the Bench: A Vote for Clinical Research
- 8. Mostly about Books
- and Medicine
- 9. Confessions of Creeping Obsolescence
- 10. Man's Best Friend
- 11. "Non-Cognitive" Comes Home to Roost
- 12. Bats in the Belfry or Bugs in the Belly? Helicobacter and the Resurrection of Johannes Fibiger
- 13. Whither Our Children?
- 14. Sin for Saint William?
- 15. In the Service of the IRS
- 16. What's in a Name?
- 17. PC: Politically Correct or Potentially Corrupting?
- 18. SI Units: Wrong for the Right Reasons
- 19. Long and the Short and the Rest of It
- 20. On Chinese Restaurants, Prolapsing Heart Valves, and Other Medical Conundrums
- 21. So, You Want to Be a Doctor?
- 22. While the Getting's Good.