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  2. Sherwin B. Nuland - Wikipedia

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    Sherwin Bernard Nuland[ 1] (born Shepsel Ber Nudelman; December 8, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College. His 1994 book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter ...

  3. The Soul of Medicine - Wikipedia

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    Synopsis. This collection of anecdotes, written by Sherwin B. Nuland, portrays different doctors from an array of specialties that each write about their most memorable patient. The medicine spoken about in this book is from an earlier era, which shows the best and the worst moments of many surgeons and doctors.

  4. Paul Kalanithi - Wikipedia

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    Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi (April 1, 1977 – March 9, 2015) was an American neurosurgeon and writer. His book When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir about his life and illness with stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House in January 2016. [1] It was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for ...

  5. Listening to Prozac - Wikipedia

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    [1] In a review in the New York Review of Books, Sherwin B. Nuland said that Kramer has "played fast and loose with the most basic principles by which physicians evaluate clinical experience and propose new ways of explaining or treating illness. Those principles require (1) meticulous and personally made observations of an illness or ...

  6. Ignaz Semmelweis - Wikipedia

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    Ignaz Semmelweis Semmelweis, aged 42 in 1860, photograph by Borsos and Doctor Born Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp (1818-07-01) 1 July 1818 Buda, Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Budapest, Hungary) Died 13 August 1865 (1865-08-13) (aged 47) Oberdöbling, Austrian Empire (now Vienna, Austria) Citizenship Kingdom of Hungary Alma mater University of Vienna Known for Introducing hand disinfection standards ...

  7. Victoria Nuland - Wikipedia

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    Victoria Jane Nuland (born July 1, 1961) is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 to 2024. A former member of the US Foreign Service, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and the 18th U.S. ambassador to NATO from 2005 to 2008.

  8. Pain: Composed in Sickness - Wikipedia

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    Also, the witnessing of others not suffering caused even more pain. As Emanuel Papper and Sherwin Nuland point out, "The contrast between the sunken eyes of Coleridge, the victim of rheumatic fever and its attendant pain, with the eyes of healthy boys at play was a poignant one and for the sick boy an unforgettable, unpleasant experience. The ...

  9. Electroconvulsive therapy - Wikipedia

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    American surgeon and award-winning author Sherwin B. Nuland is another notable person who has undergone ECT. [160] In his 40s, his depression became so severe that he had to be institutionalized. After exhausting all treatment options, a young resident assigned to his case suggested ECT, which ended up being successful. [161]