White coat tales : medicine's heroes, heritage, and misadventures / Robert B. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Robert B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--History.

Medicine.

History.

Medicine--Biography.

History of Medicine.

Medical Subjects:

History of Medicine.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 271 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York[]: [Springer [Science + Business Media], [2010]

Summary:

White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures, a collection of intriguing medical stories, is ideal reading for physicians, residents, medical students, and all clinicians seeking new insights into medical history. The book is written by Robert B. Taylor, MD, a distinguished leader in medical education and highly respected author of more than 23 medical books. Each chapter presents a number of the fascinating tales of legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, insightful clinical sayings, famous persons and their illnesses, and epic blunders made by physicians and scientists. The book relates the stories in history to what clinicians do in practice today, and it highlights what all health professionals should know about the career path they have chosen.

Contents:

Part 1 Heroes, Diseases, and Remedies 1

1 Heroes in Medical History 3

2 Diseases That Changed History 31

3 Drugs and Other Remedies 51

Part 2 The Heritage and Culture of Medicine 65

4 Medical Words and Phrases 67

5 Whose Syndrome? Stories of Medical Eponyms 87

6 Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms, Euphemisms, Jargon, and Slang 103

7 Medical Aphorisms 119

8 Memorable Medical Quotations 136

Part 3 Clinical Notes and Medical Misadventures 151

9 Famous Persons as Patients 153

10 Short Tales of Serendipity, Curiosities, Medical Trivia, Authorship, and Speculation 175

11 Misadventures: Myths, Misinformation, Blunders, and Wrongdoing 199

12 Now and Future Practice 231.

Notes:

"1st softcover printing 2010". Originally published in 2008.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

1441916199

9781441916198

OCLC:

558634870