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The Making of a Surgeon
The Making of a Surgeon
Author: William A. Nolen
Dr. Nolen takes us through the surgical residency and introduces us to the very real world where he was intern and chief resident for five years: New York's Bellevue State Hospital. Funny, compassionate, sometimes tragic, Nolen provides an intimate view of life in the wards, labs and operating rooms of a great hospital. "His book is devastati...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394434476
ISBN-10: 0394434471
Pages: 269
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Random House Inc (T)
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Informative, irreverent, poignant and very funny....There has always been an air of mystery about the surgeon....The Making of a Surgeon remedies all that and then some. It takes us into the operating suite, stands us over the anesthesized patient, almost hands us the scalpel.
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An intensely human record of a young surgeon's apprenticeship - a step-by-step chronicle of the blood-and-guts process by which he acquired the kind of skill one has to depend on in an emergency. It takes us into the operating suite, stands us over the anesthesized patient, almost hands us the scalpel.