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The Making of a Surgeon
The Making of a Surgeon
Author: William A. Nolen, M.D.
The Making of a Surgeon is the memoir of an apprentice. It is William Nolen's story of his transformation from student to practitioner, from a brash medical school graduate to a surgeon possessing skill and judgment. And, as happens in the best memoirs, with his brilliant flash of self-discovery William Nolen illuminates the world outside himself.
ISBN: 159985
Publication Date: 2/1972
Pages: 286
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Publisher: Pocket Book
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, 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.


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