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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]
Stanford University School of Medicine. 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]
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.
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 tyranny of pain was dominant, and it removed all possible pleasure ...
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 800 milliamperes of direct ...
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 [81] 1995 Tina Rosenberg: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism: Winner [82] 1996 James Carroll: An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us: Winner [83] 1997 Joseph J. Ellis: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson ...