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Author: Richard E. Peschel
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: physician, life, chapters, patient, hates, doctor
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1986-10-01
ISBN-10: 0520057554
ISBN-13: 9780520057555
A doctor describes ten medical cases and examines literary depictions of similar situations and problems that physicians must face
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Author: Richard E. Peschel
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: physician, life, chapters, patient, hates, doctor
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1988-05-05
ISBN-10: 0520063430
ISBN-13: 9780520063433
We offer these case histories, literary parallels, and reflections for what they are: the impressions and reactions of a relatively new doctor and our joint effort to try to comprehend and come to terms with the rich--often shocking, unsettling, and frightening, sometimes uplifting, and always astonishing--human experience that is medicine.
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Author: Forgotten Books
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Keywords: astonishing, adventures, foreign, parts, home, life, doctor, dolittle, history, peculiar, story
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1920
ISBN-10: 1440067767
ISBN-13: 9781440067761
The adventures of a kind-hearted doctor, who is fond of animals and understands their language, as he travels to Africa with some of his favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness.
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Author: Steven Lehrer
Publisher: Steven Lehrer
Keywords: doctors, plays, three
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2010-12-24
ISBN-10: 1456447122
ISBN-13: 9781456447120
DRAMA; WAR AND PSYCHOANALYSIS is the story of Freud's efforts to learn if a famous patient, the Rat Man, was circumcised. THE FAMILY DOCTOR is Dr. Eduard Bloch, the Jewish poor people's doctor, who cared for Adolf Hitler's mother in 1907, in Linz, as she was dying of breast cancer. Thirty years later, after Hitler had annexed Austria, Hitler protected Bloch. But Bloch was reluctant to give up Klara's medical record and two postcards Hitler had sent him in 1907. Would Bloch, the only Jew that Hitler protected from Hitler, be murdered for his disobedience? THE ABORTIONIST is the drama of an abor
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Author: G. Dadd
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: doctor, cattle, american
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 2008-07
ISBN-10: 1557091838
ISBN-13: 9781557091833
This reprint of an 1851 classic contains the necessary information so that "Every Man can be his Own Cattle Doctor." Included is information for preserving the health and curing the diseases of oxen, cows, sheep, and swine, with a great variety of individual recipes and valuable information in reference to farm and dairy management. The principles taught in the work are: "that all medication shall be subservient to nature; that all medicinal agents must be sanative in their operation, and administered with a view of aiding the vital powers, instead of depressing, as heretofore, with the lancet
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