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The young neurosurgeon : lessons from my patients / Paul Edward Kaloostian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaloostian, Paul Edward, 1981- author.
- Series:
- Literature and medicine series (Albuquerque, N.M.)
- Literature and medicine series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 119 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- "This memoir of the experiences of a neurosurgery resident at a busy trauma center provides a rare window into the training of doctors who operate on patients' brains and spinal cords. Kaloostian's account describes the life-saving feats and tragic failures that are daily realities of twenty-first-century neurosurgery"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The biopsy
- You win some, you lose some
- The cowboy
- Running the list
- I'm gonna be all right?
- Doc, who are all these people?
- The hand-me-down wheelchair
- Communicate with your patients
- I'm fuckin' thirsty
- I like that word recovery
- I want to help in the fight
- The smell of death
- Doctor, with God anything is possible
- Don't cry, sweetheart
- Thank you for giving me my life back
- Hippocratic oath.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780826353535
- 0826353533
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