The Solid Gold Stethoscope Author:Edgar Berman At last a book for everyone who has ever wanted to kill his doctor. — Edgar Berman, a distinguished physician who practiced medicine for twenty years before fleeing to the honest profession of politics, opens fire with the "Hypocritic Oath" (guaranteed to make doctors swear) and then settles down to dissect this oldest of professions, s... more »pecialty by specialty, including:
Spocksmanship: Infantilism Revisited (Pediatrics)
Pubic Health: Wombats of the Western World (Gynecology/ Obstetrics)
From Fraud to Freud to Fraud: A Boon for the Idbegotten (Psychiatry)
From Hags to Bitches: A Nose By Any Other Name (Plastic Surgery)
The Venerable Genital: A Phallacy (Urology)
His sardonic examination of medical ethics ("Bad Medicine: The Pathetics of Ethics"), the doctor-patient relationship ("The Poor Relations: Patients vs. Doctors"), national health policy ("The Blue Cross Hilton"), and physician politics ("Sacred Cows and Virile Bulls") will keep readers in stitches--even if they experience occasional flashes of terror as they see the inner workings of the body medical. A bemused Berman concludes that perhaps the strangest phenomenon of modern medicine is the befuddled patient--and sadly decides that "anyone who puts up with today's medicine deserves it."« less