Robert B. Taylor

White Coat Tales (eBook, PDF)

Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage and Misadventures, a collection of intriguing medical stories, is ideal reading for physicians, residents, medical students and all clinicians seeking new insights into medical history. The book is written by Dr. Robert B. Taylor, a distinguished leader in medical education and highly respected author of over 23 medical books. Each chapter presents a number of the fascinating tales of legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, insightful clinical sayings, famous persons and their illnesses, and epic blunders made by physicians and scientists. The book relates the stories in history to what clinicians do in practice today, and it highlights what all health professionals should know about the career path they have chosen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780387730806
• Artikelnr.: 37286552

Autorenporträt

Robert Taylor is well known and highly regarded in the field of Family Medicine. Dr. Taylor has more than 14 years in private practice and 26 years in academic medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Heroes, Diseases and Remedies.- Heroes in Medical History.- Diseases that Shaped History.- Drugs and Other Remedies.- Part Two: The Heritage and Culture of Medicine.- Medical Words and Phrases.- Whose Syndrome? Stories of Medical Eponyms.- Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms, Euphemisms, Jargon and Slang.- Medical Aphorisms.- Memorable Medical Quotations.- Part Three: Clinical Notes and Medical Misadventures.- Famous Persons as Patients.- Short Tales of Serendipity, Curiosities, Medical Trivia, Authorship and Speculation.- Medical Myths, Misinformation, Blunders and Wrongdoing.- Now and Future Practice.