Download or read book Forgive and Remember written by Charles L. Bosk and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark study of how medical errors are managed among surgeons and other hospital staff—now in an updated edition with a new preface and epilogue. When it was first published, Forgive and Remember offered groundbreaking insight into the training and lives of young surgeons. It quickly emerged as the definitive sociological study on the subject. While medical errors are both inevitable and potentially devastating, Bosk found that they could be forgiven—as long as they were remembered and never repeated. In this second edition, Bosk reflects more than twenty years later on how things have changed, both in the medical profession and in sociology. With an extensive new preface, epilogue, and appendix by the author, this updated edition of Forgive and Remember is as timely as ever.
Download or read book A Surgeon Remembers written by Robert C. Shoemaker and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Marine companies were now under heavy Chinese attacks; the sound of bugles and grenades rang out in the dark and cold. The ability of the Marines to?pull back, consolidate, and not "bug out" was most remarkable. No finer example of Marine discipline can be found. They followed their training and responded to leadership. My Marine officer friends often referred proudly to the quality of leadership with the Marines. The massiveness of the Chinese attacks was not immediately apparent.? Soon, however, it was obvious to all that we were "cut off," surrounded.
Download or read book Beside the Troubled Waters written by Sonnie W. Hereford and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A black southern doctor offers a gripping memoir of his childhood in Alabama, his efforts to overcome racism in the white medical community, his participation in the civil rights movement and his problems with the Medicaid program and state medical authorities"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Hootch 8 written by L. Paul Brief and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a New York City bachelor about to complete his medical training, the last place Paul Brief thought he'd end up was Vietnam. The year was 1969, and Brief, an ambitious if irreverent orthopedic surgeon, was too busy enjoying the fruits of the sexual revolution to consider the possibility of being drafted. In Hootch 8, Brief details his sudden arrival at a naval hospital outside Danang, along with dozens of his fellow soldier-doctors, following a grueling stint in boot camp, where they're taught not only how to heal, but how to fight. Through Brief's eyes, we witness the brutal realities of wartime medicine, with its endless stench of blood and steady stream of double amputees. Along the way, we're introduced to the cast of characters who become the key to his survival in Nam. Shot through with humor and compassion, Hootch 8 is a surprisingly moving account of one man's transformative encounter with the tragedies and absurdities of war.
Download or read book Just Remembering a Surgeon Recalling the Past written by Dr. Bob Christensen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help the reader see some of the experiences that have made up the life of this remarkable man, Dr. Robert W. Christensen. It will give the reader an idea of the innovative and entrepreneurial genius of a surgeon who was looking for ways to alleviate some of the misery of several human conditions. It is factual, sometimes graphic, but mostly very interesting and informative. The reader will be captivated page after page. The essence of this book is about the courage in the face of significant opposition from the establishment and Dr. Christensens dependence upon God. His desire to teach professionals as well as ordinary people who were plagued with various maladies is well presented. All who read this book will be blessed. Dr. James T. Curry Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
Download or read book Complications written by Atul Gawande and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
Download or read book In the Company of Marines A Surgeon Remembers Vietnam written by James O. Finnegan and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. James Finnegan spent one year in Vietnam during the war as a combat surgeon, including heading a surgical team in Khe Sanh during the famous 77 day siege of that combat base. His stories are personal, unique, and describe a side of the war seldom reported in the media. Each story is based on the true personal experiences of a physician who himself received a Purple Heart for wounds he sustained in action.
Download or read book Surgical Recall written by Lorne H. Blackbourne and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its Sixth Edition, Surgical Recall allows for rapid-fire review of surgical clerkship material for third- or fourth-year medical students preparing for the USMLE and shelf exams. Written in a concise question-and-answer format—double-column, question on the left, answer on the right—Surgical Recall addresses both general surgery and surgical subspecialties. Students on rotation or being PIMPed can quickly refer to Surgical Recall for accurate and on-the-spot answers. The book includes survival tactics and tips for success on the boards and wards as well as key information for those new to the surgical suite.
Download or read book Doctor John Remembers written by John Henry Moore and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story (told in nearly two hundred short recollections) of a surgeon from a family of surgeons, raised in the Arkansas oil country of the Jim Crow South. A churchgoer from his childhood, he came to a saving knowledge of Christ (along with his wife Cathy) only in the late 1970s. And from that turning point, they proved themselves to be choice servants of the Lord in countless ways--in John's case, as a deacon, a surgeon in the Amazon region, a denominational and parachurch board member, a conference speaker in Eastern Europe, a free-clinic doctor in Southwest Missouri, and a church staff member. Along the way, he took note of a host of engaging events, characters, and conversations, whether among fellow Air Force doctors on parade, with medical colleagues observing a gratifying, ancillary effect of defibrillation, or in the company of an aunt who introduced him to Roy Rogers and Stan Musial. There was even an Elvis sighting. The book is rich in theological, ecclesiological, missiological, familial, sociological, psychological, and medical narratives and observations.
Download or read book Do No Harm written by Henry Marsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller Shortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Prize and the Costa Book Award Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction A Finalist for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize A Finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize A Financial Times Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling, and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong? In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to "do no harm" holds a bitter irony. Operations on the brain carry grave risks. Every day, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh must make agonizing decisions, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached doctors, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. With astonishing compassion and candor, Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life. Do No Harm provides unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital. Above all, it is a lesson in the need for hope when faced with life's most difficult decisions.
Download or read book A Doctor to Remember written by Joanna Neil and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After a traumatic accident leaves her with amnesia, emergency doctor Saffi is trying to rebuild her life with the help of a "new" colleague. It's strange that she cannot remember the gorgeous Matt Flynn. How could she have forgotten those compellingly handsome features? Though he knows he could lose her again, E.R. consultant Matt is determined to help his beautiful Saffi regain her memory. Can he rebuild her trust and prove to Saffi that the love they once had is worth fighting for?"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book The Healing Knife written by George Sava and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cutting for Stone written by Abraham Verghese and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
Download or read book Patient H M written by Luke Dittrich and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1953, maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on an epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. But it was a catastrophic failure, leaving Henry unable to create long-term memories. Scoville's grandson, Luke Dittrich, takes us on an astonishing journey through the history of neuroscience, from the first brain surgeries in ancient Egypt to the New England asylum where his grandfather developed a taste for human experimentation. Dittrich's investigation confronts unsettling family secrets and reveals the dark roots of modern neuroscience, raising troubling questions that echo into the present day.
Download or read book The Surgeon written by Tess Gerritsen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.
Download or read book Grade D But Edible a Surgeon s Journey Through Alcohol Dependence Rehabilitation and Recovery written by Tomczak and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of a surgeon who tragically loses his career after 25 years in the operating room. He is not the victim of a stroke or stray bullet, but a simple pair of common surgical latex gloves. Dr. Rod Tomczak, a talented and passionate surgeon, develops a severe allergy to latex, forcing him into early retirement. Depression sets in and Dr. Tomczak falls into a downward spiral of alcoholism and suicidal thoughts, spending nearly half of the next three years in and out of rehabilitation facilities. In this painfully honest, frank, and often pathetically humorous story, Dr. Tomczak shares the trials and tribulations of his never-ending battle to escape the unrelenting forces of clinical depression. Rod Tomczak, MD, EdD., has worked as a surgeon at Mercy Hospital in Monroe, Michigan, Des Moines University, and The Ohio State University Hospitals in Columbus. He is currently working on his next book, Pirate Doctors of the Caribbean. Dr. Tomczak lives with his wife, Gretchen, and a serenity Shitz Tzu named Simon, in Columbus, Ohio. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/GradeDButEdible.htm
Download or read book Memory written by David Moxon and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of textbooks which have been written to support A levels in psychology. The books use real life applications to help teach students what they need to know. Readers are encouraged to use aims, methods, results and conclusions of the key studies to support their own arguments.
