White Coat Tales Medicine’s Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures /
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 le...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Heroes, Diseases, and Remedies
- Heroes in Medical History ab[Abstract
- Diseases That Changed History
- Drugs and Other Remedies
- 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
- Clinical Notes and Medical Misadventures
- Famous Persons as Patients
- Short Tales of Serendipity, Curiosities, Medical Trivia, Authorship, and Speculation
- Misadventures: Myths, Misinformation, Blunders, and Wrongdoing
- Now and Future Practice.
