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.
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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.
Imprint | Springer-Verlag New York |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | December 2009 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | 2008 |
Authors | Robert B. Taylor |
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 |
Barcode | 9781441916198 |
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LSN | 1-4419-1619-9 |