Download or read book The Janus Doctor written by James J. Scheiner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 21, 1980, the author, a morally insane, drug-addicted surgeon hit bottom. Guilty of fraudulent research, he finds himself reduced to a terrified non-entity in a barred bedlam oiled by a system bent on destroying the things that once defined human beings. There, he endures the angst of withdrawal and the savage revenge of a fellow con that had once been the target of the doctor's ignorant, racist tongue. Prison, however, turns out to be less a punishment than a restorative sanctuary, for there, guided by a notorious Black Panther and a wise rabbi, he confronts a soul overburdened with contemptible sin. Set free by the truth, he becomes humanized and ultimately rejoices in the glory of redemption and resurrection. Interjected between the prison scenes, the author recounts the intimate details that spawned a personality destined for tragedy. He speaks of a childhood spent in a house of horrors, of an adolescence spent slaving in a sweatbox of a bakery, of an obtuse alcoholic father, and an abusive perfunctory mother who, with every other breath, cleverly brainwashes him into presuming he wants to become a doctor. Ill-prepared for college, he resorts to drugs and duplicity in order to propel himself to the top of his class and through the doors of the Kafkaesque training grounds of medicine. His malignant idiosyncrasies carry over into his private practice, causing it to turn into a chaos, which, thanks to a profession gripped by a conspiracy of silence, is allowed to endure for almost a decade. It was not until he cripples a myriad of lives-including those closest to him-that his scalpel is finally taken out of his trembling hands. In need of money, he offers to perform clinical trials on experimental drugs for several pharmaceutical firms. Having no patients, however, to participate in the trials, he invents them and makes a go of it until the Food and Drug Administration stumbles upon his spurious dealings. Striving to thwart their efforts, the author engages in a series of reckless, self-destructive schemes; one of which-the use of drugs and alcohol to beguile his assistant into taking responsibility for his evil-proves tragic. In an Afterword bearing on the portentous problem of Janus doctors, the author discloses that more or less 15 percent of doctors are, at any one time, addicted to alcohol, to other drugs, or to both. And, probably, because of it, kill more people than motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. He discusses why the problem remains unchecked, and proffers a prescription for its solution.
Download or read book The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine written by Owsei Temkin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preeminent historian of medicine Owsei Temkin brought to his writing an awesome range of scholarship, for he was at home in the classical, the medieval, and the modern eras. The essays gathered in this volume deal with all the topics that Temkin considered most important in his work. They were widely commended for their originality, intelligent analysis, and impressive continuity of thought. Temkin explores the history of basic medical sciences, of health and disease, and of surgery and drug therapy, as well as general questions concerning the historical and philosophical approach to medicine from antiquity to the early twentieth century. In a retrospective introduction which gives the book its name, Temkin relates his writings to his career as a scholar in Germany and the United States. He situates the writings against the background of the development of the study of medical history and provides recollections of such prominent figures as Karl Sudhoff, Henry E. Sigerist, William H. Welch, and Richard H. Shryock.
Download or read book Janus written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revue internationale de l'histoire des sciences, de la médecine, de la pharmacie et de la technique." (varies).
Download or read book A Country Doctor written by Franz Kafka and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Janus Project written by Brad Anderson and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2010-05-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army veteran and restaurant owner John Callan was at the wrong place at absolutely the worst time. And he paid for it with the lives of his wife and daughter. His attempt at revenge on Morgan Ropp, the country’s most lethal criminal, lands him in a special, top secret section of the Federal Witness Security Program: the Janus Project. Life under Janus is supposed to be the safest available for protected witnesses – and it is for Callan until Morgan escapes from prison and finds out where – and when – Callan is hiding. The Janus Project reveals the struggle of survival when the need for revenge pushes us to the brink of disaster. This character-driven novel highlights the dichotomy of a man torn between the fictional life that has been implanted in his new reality and the depth of his instincts that drive him within his innermost soul. Which reality will win? It’s a matter of time.
Download or read book The Digital Doctor Hope Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine s Computer Age written by Robert Wachter and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare’s #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare’s ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization – until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital. Yet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, it dawned on them that something was deeply wrong. Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of America’s leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic, despite a state-of-the-art computerized prescribing system? How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absence of an electronic medical record as a major selling point? Logically enough, we’ve pinned the problems on clunky software, flawed implementations, absurd regulations, and bad karma. It was all of those things, but it was also something far more complicated. And far more interesting . . . Written with a rare combination of compelling stories and hard-hitting analysis by one of the nation’s most thoughtful physicians, The Digital Doctor examines healthcare at the dawn of its computer age. It tackles the hard questions, from how technology is changing care at the bedside to whether government intervention has been useful or destructive. And it does so with clarity, insight, humor, and compassion. Ultimately, it is a hopeful story. "We need to recognize that computers in healthcare don’t simply replace my doctor’s scrawl with Helvetica 12," writes the author Dr. Robert Wachter. "Instead, they transform the work, the people who do it, and their relationships with each other and with patients. . . . Sure, we should have thought of this sooner. But it’s not too late to get it right." This riveting book offers the prescription for getting it right, making it essential reading for everyone – patient and provider alike – who cares about our healthcare system.
Download or read book The Janus Conjunction written by Trevor Baxendale and published by BBC Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The planets Janus Prime and Menda are diametrically opposed in orbit round a vast Red Giant star. But while Menda is rich and fertile in the light of the sun, Janus Prime endures everlasting night, its moon causing a permanent solar eclipse. When the Doctor and Sam arrive on Janus Prime, they find themselves in the middle of a war between rival humans colonizing the area. The planet is littered with ancient ruins, and the Mendans are using a mysterious hyperspatial link left behind by the planet's former inhabitants. But what is its true purpose? The Doctor and Sam must piece together a centuries-old puzzle. How can Janus Prime's moon weight billions of tons more than it should? Why is the planet riddled with deadly radiation? As the violence escalates around them, will the time-travelers survive to discover the answers?"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book The Janus Face of Prenatal Diagnostics written by Eve-Marie Engels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and continues to be so in the present century. Biotechnology creates new opportunities and possibilities, but also new dangers, risks, and ethical concerns. In this volume, ethical dilemmas in the context of a specific biomedical technology are discussed. Experts in ethics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and medicine jointly investigated a field of prenatal and genetic research that seems particularly challenging: prenatal diagnostics. The new and innovative interdisciplinary dialogue on this topic that is presented in this volume offers a deeper understanding of the ethical dilemmas raised by prenatal and genetic diagnostics, and explores ways to support couples in this extremely difficult situation.
Download or read book The Janus Project written by Deborah N. David and published by Deborah N. David. This book was released on 2008 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a chance meeting, a geneticist and aspiring sports star make a pact without concidering the consequences.
Download or read book The Janus Plan written by William F. Welch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: End World War II in Europe and join with German Armies to keep the Soviets out of Eastern Europe.That's the Janus Plan. And the man picked by the OSS to do it is Captain Rick Malone, U.S. Army Ranger.To accomplish his mission, Malone must go deep into enemy territory - posing as a German Intelligence Officer.Dogged by the German Secret Service across Europe, Malone's mission is compromised by a traitor on his own side.He now has two objectives: Complete the misssion and uncover the traitor before it is too late.
Download or read book The Nation s Doctor written by Sally Sheard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study of a significant post within the British government. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources and interviews with senior health professionals and politicians, this book positions the Chief Medical Officer as one of the most influential individuals within the Whitehall system, with personal responsibility for the health of the population. Through a number of case studies, including the 1950s smoking and lung caner issue, and the AIDS and BSE crises of the 1980s and 1990s, "The Nation's Doctor" examines how the CMO operates, drawing on expertise to inform the direction of government health policy.
Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat 1992 62 written by Alan Grant and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this great comic from DC’s digital archive!
Download or read book The Janus Deception written by John Bayer and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lieutenant Commander Jake Madsen, MD, examines Sgt. Jerry Wallace, he discovers a strange implant in Wallace's chest wall. This discovery propels Madsen into a world where human emotions and actions are no longer taken into account, and where research on chemical weapons is conducted on the most available and expendable subjects: soldiers of the United States.
Download or read book The Janus File written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fates of universes aren’t the only things time travel can impact. Sometimes the effect is a lot more mundane and closer to home. And when that happens, it’s up to the cops of Themis Division to make time turn out right. It was supposed to be a routine trip for the members of the Gordian Division, both human and AI: fly out to Saturn, inspect the construction of their latest time machines, then fly back. But when the division’s top scientist and chief engineer are killed in the same freak accident, suspicions of foul play run deep. Detective Isaac Cho is sent in to investigate, but he has more on his mind than just a new case. His superiors have saddled him with an exchange officer from the neighboring Admin—Special Agent Susan Cantrell—whose notion of proper “law enforcement” involves blowing up criminals first and skipping questions entirely. Despite his objections, Cho is stuck with an untested partner on a case that increasingly reeks of murder and conspiracy. The unlikely pair must work together to unravel this mystery, and soon they discover their unique combination of skills might just provide the edge they need. But nothing is ever simple where the Gordian Division is involved. Not even time itself. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About prequel The Gordian Protocol: “Tom Clancy-esque exposition of technical details . . . absurd humor and bloody action. Echoes of Robert Heinlein . . . lots of exploding temporal spaceships and bodies . . . action-packed . . .” —Booklist “[A] fun and thrilling standalone from Weber and Holo. . . . Time travel enthusiasts will enjoy the moral dilemmas, nonstop action, and crisp writing.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Janus written by Richard Pilch and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doctor. A patient. A savior. A killer. A contradiction. It is who we are. We look together out a long-closed window, through our reflection to life beyond it, wishing to join in on either side of the glass but only watching from afar in the end. Yet still we are here. Still there is something. In a place where reality and fantasy are indistinguishable, in a place where birth and death are one, this place, this life, this earth, all we know, that there is something where there could be nothing means everything. We are here. Where we were before. Where we will be again. Maybe the window is open after alla]maybe there's no window at all.
