This collection of intriguing stories offers profound insights
into medical history. It highlights what all health professionals
should know about the career path they have chosen. Each chapter
presents a number of 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 is ideal
reading for physicians, residents, medical students and all
clinicians.
General
Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2009 |
First published: |
2008 |
Authors: |
Robert B. Taylor
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
272 |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2008. 2nd printing 2009 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4419-1619-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
History of medicine
|
LSN: |
1-4419-1619-9 |
Barcode: |
9781441916198 |
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