A Surgeon S Odyssey

Author : Charles Marks
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781602473508

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Threads of Destiny by Charles Marks Pdf

"Threads of Destiny: A Surgeon's Odyssey" by Charles Marks describes the developments in cardiovascular and transplantation surgery within the parameters of his own surgical career. The author reviews his migration from Ukraine and Lithuania to Cape Town, South Africa where he completed his medical studies. Many years of unique surgical training and practice take him on a prolonged journey that encompasses challenges and opportunities in Southern Africa, England, United States and Israel. Written from an insider's vantage point, "Threads of Destiny" provides a thoughtful account of medical education and describes interesting clinical challenges that ring with verisimilitude and drama. Throughout his sojourn Dr. Marks is fortified by the love and support of a happy home life provided by his wife, Joyce, as they raise their four sons and observe the growth and development of their American-born grandchildren.

Author : Jonathan Murray M.D.
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982238452

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A Surgeon's Odyssey by Jonathan Murray M.D. Pdf

Medicine is a jealous mistress. To practice successfully a life commitment is necessary, but not to the extent of becoming stale and boring. This book describes the author’s roller coaster approach to avoid this which resulted in a fulfilling but contentious career.

Author : Richard Moss M.D.
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781480859531

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A Surgeon's Odyssey by Richard Moss M.D. Pdf

From 1987 to 1990, author Dr. Richard Moss traveled extensively through Asia while working as a cancer surgeon in four different countries including Thailand, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. His work was voluntary, however the “payoff” was in the rich, fascinating, and, often bizarre experiences he had both as a surgeon and wanderer. Based on this three-year excursion, A Surgeon’s Odyssey delves into the true-to-life adventures, struggles, and quandaries of a young surgeon from humble beginnings who found himself in a strange and tragic but beautiful world, striving to save those suffering from horrifying disease under hellish circumstances. In this memoir, Moss shares his story that includes insights into life, other cultures and religions, and the tragedy of intolerable disease amidst destitution and scarcity. A Surgeon’s Odyssey tells of a young man’s decision to forgo comfort and financial security for the adventure of a lifetime, pitting himself against the specter of overwhelming suffering and illness. It narrates the unique journey of a cancer surgeon who, against conventional wisdom, embarked on a pilgrimage of healing and experienced surgical triumphs and setbacks amidst some of the most beguiling and fascinating cultures in the world.

Author : Loyal Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015006533981

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A Surgeon's Odyssey by Loyal Davis Pdf

Author : Jonathan Kaplan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447206538

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The Dressing Station by Jonathan Kaplan Pdf

Winner of the Alan Paton Award and the South African Booksellers Choice Award Jonathan Kaplan has been a hospital surgeon, a flying doctor, a ship's medical officer and a battlefield surgeon. He has worked in places as diverse as Burma, Kurdistan, America, Mozambique, England and Eritrea. The Dressing Station presents a vivid, moving account of the varied faces of medicine he has encountered. In a mixture of reportage, confession and exposition Kaplan talks about the practice of medicine and of its shortcomings, because medicine is not always benign or balanced. At its extremes it is a process of treating the casualties, for life is a war, and being a doctor is serving in that war. 'His account is born of two talents: to save lives and to bear witness. The result is a unique mixture of biography and reportage, both personal and clinical' Time Magazine

Author : A. Cecil Cyrus
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Physicians
ISBN : 1545434824

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A Harvest Richer Than Gold by A. Cecil Cyrus Pdf

This is part 2 of the life of Dr A Cecil Cyrus, surgeon extraordinaire who, for more than 50 years, catered to the health needs of the population of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a tiny, multi-island nation in the Caribbean.

Author : Ed Krekorian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Surgeons
ISBN : 1931456151

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Vietnam, a Surgeon's Odyssey by Ed Krekorian Pdf

A doctor's diary. A soldier's saga.Colonel J.P. Franklin, MC US Army, a man of honor, courage and commitment, has already passed through the crucible of two wars. Beginning as a teenaged Marine private in the Second World War, he goes on to command a platoon of self-propelled automatic weapons as a lieutenant in the Korean War. His greatest challenge, however, comes in a third war, Vietnam.World recognised for his expertise as a head and neck surgeon, he leaves the safe academic environment of Walter Reed Army Medical Centre to become a paratrooper, then takes his military and surgical skills to Vietnam.This is a detailed and often traumatic perspective of a controversial period in US history. It is a period that strains those ideals and loyalties considered sacred to the young men who matured into warriors during WW2 and the Korean War.

Author : Bud Shaw
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780147515339

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Last Night in the OR by Bud Shaw Pdf

For readers of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Paul A. Ruggieri's Confessions of a Surgeon, and Atul Gawande's Better, a pioneering surgeon shares memories from a life in one of surgery’s most demanding fields The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, M.D., who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients. He reveals harshly intimate moments of his medical career: telling a patient's husband that his wife has died during surgery; struggling to complete a twenty-hour operation as mental and physical exhaustion inch closer and closer; and flying to retrieve a donor organ while the patient waits in the operating room. Within these more emotionally charged vignettes are quieter ones, too, like growing up in rural Ohio, and being awakened late at night by footsteps in the hall as his father, also a surgeon, slipped out of the house to attend to a patient in the ER. In the tradition of Mary Roach, Jerome Groopman, Eric Topol, and Atul Gawande, Last Night in the OR is an exhilarating, fast-paced, and beautifully written memoir, one that will captivate readers with its courage, intimacy, and honesty.

Author : Charles Clark Kissinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Surgeons
ISBN : UCLA:L0061461273

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Seems Like Yesterday by Charles Clark Kissinger Pdf

Autobiography is the venue that this retired general surgeon has taken to describe the medical evolution of the 20th century physician. Born, reared, & schooled in metropolitan Washington, D.C., the author explains how events displaced him from his comfortable nurturing & abruptly thrust him into adventures befitting Marco Polo. Educated in the pre-antibiotic & ether drip anesthesia era, the author was witness to the dramatic changes in the next 40 years. Guadalcanal at the beginning of WWII & subsequently the Philippines were his practical training in emergency, tropical, & military medicine. After the war, the reader shares the author's four strenuous years of surgical training & subsequent busy private practice. Sabbaticals to Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, & Saigon on missions of both mercy & education arevividly described. Photographs are couched in several parts of the book, showing some scenery, personal touches & graphic details of some less than pleasant times. For the sons & daughters of the author's era, reading the book is an education in our medical heritage.

Author : Sarmiento Augusto
Publisher : JAYPEE BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : MEDICAL
ISBN : 9789350905494

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Hip Surgery by Sarmiento Augusto Pdf

This book is written in straight-forward, comprehensive text, clear, lucid and easy-to-grasp language including a complete inclusion of all the aspects of Hip Surgery. This book, therefore, is neither a scholarly written document nor a manifesto proposing a definitive plan of action. It is represents one of the most important and impressive technological developments in the history of orthopedics. Summarizes evolution and current status of hip reconstructive and trauma surgery. This text is not intended to be a history of hip surgery. It is simply a recollection of the author personal experiences with hip surgery over nearly half a century. This book is useful for orthopaedic surgeons, residents and postgraduate students.

Author : Franci Stavropoulos,Jennifer Woerner
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323813761

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Gender and Diversity in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, An Issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics of North America, E-Book by Franci Stavropoulos,Jennifer Woerner Pdf

Gender and Diversity in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, An Issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics of North America, E-Book

Author : LaSalle D. Leffall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114584639

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No Boundaries by LaSalle D. Leffall Pdf

"As the current board chair of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, renowned for its "Race for the Cure," he stresses the need for early detection and treatment of breast cancer. Working with cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong on the President's Cancer Panel, which he also chairs, Dr. Leffall focuses on ethical issues related to cancer survivorship." "No Boundaries provides LaSalle Leffall with yet another forum for discussing the challenges and promises facing physicians, researchers, policymakers, and patients in their quest to control and ultimately eliminate cancer. It also illuminates his unwavering commitment to his profession's creed: to place patients first."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Thomas J. Beno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Korea
ISBN : UOM:39015051568056

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Tom's Odyssey by Thomas J. Beno Pdf

Author : Henry C. Duggan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Florida
ISBN : 9781468587333

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Silver's Odyssey by Henry C. Duggan Pdf

A captivating tale of young Lieutenant Luis Armador who was aboard the Atocha in September of 1622 when a hurricane sank the ship in the Florida Keys. This is a riveting account of Luis' struggle to find his way from the Florida Keys to sanctuary in St. Augustine, Florida and to eventually return home to Seville--Amazon.com.

Author : Eli Ginzberg,Irving Louis Horowitz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1412822416

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Eli Ginzberg by Eli Ginzberg,Irving Louis Horowitz Pdf

The world of Eli Ginzberg can readily be thought of as a triptych-a career in three parts. In his early years, Ginzberg's work was dedicated to understanding the history of economics, from Adam Smith to C. Wesley Mitchell, and placing that understanding in what might well be considered economic ethnography. His studies took him on travels from Wales in the United Kingdom to California in the United States. For example, the poignant account of Welsh miners in an era of economic depression and technological change remains a landmark work. His report of a cross country trip taken in the first year of the New Deal provides insight and evaluation that can scarcely be captured in present-day writings. The second period of his career corresponds to Ginzberg's increasing involvement in the practice of economics. He deals with issues related to manpower allocation, employment shifts, and gender and racial changes in the workforce. His writing reflects a growing concern for child welfare and education. In this period, his work increasingly focuses on federal, state and city governments, and how the public sector impacts all basic social issues. His work was sufficiently transcendent of political ideology that seven presidents sought and received his advice and participation. After receiving all due encomiums and congratulations for intellectual work and policy research well done, Ginzberg then went on to spend the next thirty years of his life carving out a place as a preeminent economist of health, welfare services, and hospital administration. It is this portion of his life that is the subject of Eli Ginzberg: The Economist as a Public Intellectual. What is apparent in Ginzberg's work of this period is his sense of the growing interaction of all the social sciences-pure and applied-to develop a sense of the whole. The contributors to this festschrift, join together to provide a portrait of a figure whose life and work have spanned the twentieth century, and yet pointed the way to changes in the twenty-first century. Eli Ginzberg from the start possessed a strong sense of social justice and economic equality grounded in a Judaic-Christian tradition. All of these aspects come together in the writings of a person who transcends all parochialism and gives substantive content to the often-cloudy phrase, public intellectual. Irving Louis Horowitz is Hanna Arendt Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he has taught for over thirty years. He also serves as Chairman of the Board at Transaction Publishers. His writings include Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason; Behemoth: Main Currents in the History and Theory of Political Sociology; and Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power.