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Sherwin B. Nuland. 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 ...
978-1-60714-055-9. The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside is a 2009 book by Sherwin B. Nuland. [1] It was first published on April 14, 2009, through Kaplan Publishing. [2]
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 maladaptive ...
1861974132. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is a nonfiction book collection of essays written by the American surgeon Atul Gawande. Gawande wrote this during his general surgery residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and was published in 2002 by Picador. [1] The book is divided into three sections: Fallibility ...
Sherwin B. Nuland: How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter: Winner 1995 Tina Rosenberg: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism: Winner 1996 James Carroll: An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us: Winner 1997 Joseph J. Ellis: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson: Finalist 1998
Electroconvulsive therapy. Electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT) or electroshock therapy ( EST) is a psychiatric treatment where a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders. [1] Typically, 70 to 120 volts are applied externally to the patient's head, resulting in approximately ...
3. Close to Shore by Michael Capuzzo. 4. Demon Fish by Julie Eilperin. 5. In Harm’s Way by Doug Stanton. Here are three great books about sharks throughout history. Close To Shore details one of ...
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 ...