The staff and the serpent pertinent and impertinent observations on the world of medicine /
Weisse tackles medical ethics, offers advice to medical and premedical students and their families, delves into unusual episodes of medical history, confronts considerations of aging and self-image, and discusses the vagaries of rewards and recognition available from medical research. He also examin...
| Main Author: | Weisse, Allen B. |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[1998]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (ix, 147 pages) |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 1.
- Greetings
- 2.
- Betrayal
- 3.
- Vanishing Male
- 4.
- Pneumocystis and Me: The Small Joys and Great Satisfactions of Medical Sleuthing
- 5.
- Tuberculosis: Why "The White Plague"? (Another Detective Story)
- 6.
- Say It Isn't "No": The Power of Positive Thinking in the Publication of Medical Research
- 7.
- Beyond the Bench: A Vote for Clinical Research
- 8.
- Mostly about Books
- and Medicine
- 9.
- Confessions of Creeping Obsolescence
- 10.
- Man's Best Friend
- 11.
- "Non-Cognitive" Comes Home to Roost
- 12.
- Bats in the Belfry or Bugs in the Belly? Helicobacter and the Resurrection of Johannes Fibiger
- 13.
- Whither Our Children?
- 14.
- Sin for Saint William?
- 15.
- In the Service of the IRS
- 16.
- What's in a Name?
- 17.
- PC: Politically Correct or Potentially Corrupting?
- 18.
- SI Units: Wrong for the Right Reasons
- 19.
- Long and the Short and the Rest of It
- 20.
- On Chinese Restaurants, Prolapsing Heart Valves, and Other Medical Conundrums
- 21.
- So, You Want to Be a Doctor?
- 22.
- While the Getting's Good.