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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 267 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In a series of reflections on the world of modern medicine, a young doctor describes how physicians must deal with the inescapable reality of death and her personal experiences throughout her education, residency, and practice with mortality.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Biography of Vivien Thomas, an African-American surgical technician who pioneered the procedure used to treat babies with a heart defect known as 'blue baby syndrome.' Includes author's note and author's sources"--
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of African American surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who founded the first non-segregated hospital in the U.S. and who pioneered performing surgery on the lining around the heart.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 256 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this book, Dr. Ruggieri opens the operating room doors and unlocks the secrets of the inscrutable place where lives are saved and lost. Here, he exposes an occupation that is valiant, sometimes suspect, and largely misunderstood.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xxi, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of the Civil War surgeon and how he made battlefield survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps and a more effective field hospital system.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every juncture in Jon Kerstetter's life has been marked by a crossing from one world into another: from civilian to doctor to soldier; between healing and waging war; and between compassion and hatred of the enemy. When an injury led to a stroke that ended his careers as a doctor and a soldier, he faced the most difficult crossing of all, a recovery that proved as shattering as war itself. Crossings is a memoir of an improbable, powerfully drawn...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
By sharing stories from his life and career, a board-certified otolaryngologist confronts his past mistakes, relationships and depression while discussing what it means to be both a physician and a Black man today.
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