White Coat Tales Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures /

This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today—the body’s “holy bone” and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that shortened...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Taylor, Robert B. (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Έκδοση:2nd ed. 2016.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today—the body’s “holy bone” and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that shortened the life of Eleanor Roosevelt.  In addition to many new tales, this revised edition contains 128 illustrations, such as images of Baron von Münchhausen aloft with cannonballs and Vincent van Gogh’s portrait of his doctor showing a clue to the painter’s health. Read about legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, illnesses of famous persons, and  some epic blunders of physicians and scientists. The author is Robert B. Taylor, MD, Emeritus Professor, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, and Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Taylor is the author and editor of more than 33 medical books. . 
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