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Nobility in small things : a surgeon's path / Craig R. Smith, M.D.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Craig R. (Surgeon), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Craig R. (Surgeon).
- Smith, Craig R.
- Heart surgeons--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Heart surgeons.
- Surgeons--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Surgeons.
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital--Anecdotes.
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--New York (State)--New York--Anecdotes.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.
- Summary:
- "The celebrated cardio-thoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, writes an elegant story of life in the land of illness and daily miracles"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- 1: Making steel. Raw material
- Coal handling
- Making coke
- 2: Compass drift. Williamstown
- The farm
- Hanover
- Distractions
- Reorienting
- Behavioral psychology lab
- Insight
- 3: White River Junction. Reemployed
- Heights
- Before the mast
- Bull and jam
- Chiff
- Countrymen
- The flood
- 4: Medical school. Stell
- Coasting
- 5: Making sausage. Rochester
- Roads not taken
- Columbia Presbyterian
- Thanksgiving
- 6: Hearts and lungs. High on the heights
- 7: Storms
- 8: Bypassing a president. Act one
- Act two
- Coda
- 9: Religion. Confirmation
- My young life
- Healing faith
- 10: Error and accountability. Error
- Accountability
- 11: Surging
- 12: Troubled waters. The faint roar ahead
- Social justice
- All in the family
- Dead nature
- A miracle denied
- 13: Prophecy. The bottom of the dam
- Scarce resources
- 14: Discarded gods
- 15: Team science
- 16: River view. Foreboding?
- ISBN:
- 9781250278531
- 1250278538
- OCLC:
- 1355014044
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