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White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Taylor, Robert B
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- Title White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
- Author Taylor, Robert B
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer
- Date 2009-12-09
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1441916199.G
- ISBN 9781441916198 / 1441916199
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.6 in (22.35 x 14.48 x 1.52 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 610.9
From the publisher
From the rear cover
White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage and Misadventures, a collection of intriguing medical stories, is ideal reading for physicians, residents, medical students and all clinicians seeking new insights into medical history. The book is written by Dr. Robert B. Taylor, a distinguished leader in medical education and highly respected author of over 23 medical books. Each chapter presents a number of the fascinating tales of legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, insightful clinical sayings, famous persons and their illnesses, and epic blunders made by physicians and scientists. The book relates the stories in history to what clinicians do in practice today, and it highlights what all health professionals should know about the career path they have chosen.