About Us
Welcome to BookAbout, the revolutionary platform for book lovers like us! We believe that finding the right book should be an enjoyable and effortless experience. As avid readers ourselves, we understand the frustration of searching through countless books by name or category, only to come up empty-handed.
That's why we created BookAbout, a platform that uses the latest AI technology to search through over 500,000 books to find the one that matches the idea of your query. With BookAbout, you can say goodbye to the traditional way of searching for books and hello to a new way of discovering your next favorite read.
We are dedicated to providing you with the best reading experience possible. We will be constantly updating our database to ensure that we have the latest books, and we're always working to improve our search algorithms to make your experience even better.
We invite you to join us on our journey of discovering the world of books. With BookAbout, you'll never have to settle for a mediocre book again. Start your search today and find your next literary adventure
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine Publishers Weekly Medicine reveals itself as a fascinatingly complex and "fundame...ntally human endeavor" in this distinguished debut essay collection by a surgical resident and staff writer for the New Yorker. Gawande, a former Rhodes scholar and Harvard Medical School graduate, illuminates "the moments in which medicine actually happens," and describes his profession as an "enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line." Gawande's background in philosophy and ethics is evident throughout these pieces, which range from edgy accounts of medical traumas to sobering analyses of doctors' anxieties and burnout. With humor, sensitivity and critical intelligence, he explores the pros and cons of new technologies, including a controversial factory model for routine surgeries that delivers superior success rates while dramatically cutting costs. He also describes treatment of such challenging conditions as morbid obesity, chronic pain and necrotizing fasciitis the often-fatal condition caused by dreaded "flesh-eating bacteria" and probes the agonizing process by which physicians balance knowledge and intuition to make seemingly impossible decisions. What draws practitioners to this challenging profession, he concludes, is the promise of "the alterable moment the fragile but crystalline opportunity for one's know-how, ability or just gut instinct to change the course of another's life for the better." These exquisitely crafted essays, in which medical subjects segue into explorations of much larger themes, place Gawande among the best in the field. National author tour. (Apr. 4) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Books of Blood: Volume II (Books of Blood, #2)
No description available
The Century of the Surgeon
No description available
Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
Surgeon Arnold Van De Laar Uses His Own Experience And Expertise To Tell This Engrossing History Of Surgery Through 28 Famous Operations - From Louis Xiv To Jfk, And From Einstein To Houdini. From The... Story Of The Desperate Man From Seventeenth-century Amsterdam Who Grimly Cut A Stone Out Of His Own Bladder To Bob Marley's Deadly Toe, Under The Knife Offers All Kinds Of Fascinating And Unforgettable Insights Into Medicine And History Via The Operating Theater. What Happens During An Operation? How Does The Human Body Respond To Being Attacked By A Knife, A Bacterium, A Cancer Cell Or A Bullet? And, As Medical Advances Continuously Push The Boundaries Of What Medicine Can Cure, What Are The Limits Of Surgery? From The Dark Centuries Of Bloodletting And Of Amputations Without Anaesthetic To Today's Sterile, High-tech Operating Theatres, Under The Knife Is Both A Rich Cultural History, And A Modern Anatomy Class For Us All--
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
'blood And Guts' Tells The Remarkable History Of Surgery From Ancient Times Onwards. It's An Extraordinary Story Of Stolen Corpses, Medical Fraud, Lobotomised Patients - And Every Now And Then Courage...ous Advances That Have Saved The Lives Of Millions Around The World. Forward / Michael Mosley -- Preface -- Ch. 1. Bloody Beginnings -- Ch. 2. Affairs Of The Heart -- Ch. 3. Dead Man's Hand -- Ch. 4. Fixing Faces -- Ch. 5. Surgery Of The Soul. Richard Hollingham ; Foreword By Michael Mosley. Published To Accompany The Bbc Television Series Blood And Guts, First Broadcast On Bbc2 In 2008--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 303-307) And Index.
Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
In this collection of nineteen unforgettable essays, Dr. Selzer describes unsparingly the surgeon’s art. Both moving and perversely funny, Mortal Lessons is an established classic that considers... not only the workings and misworkings of the human body but also the meaning of life and death. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition.
Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery
No description available
Browse's Introduction to the Symptoms and Signs of Surgical Disease
The fourth edition of this essential textbook has been fully revised and updated to ensure it continues to meet the needs of all those learning the principles of surgical examination.Together with Sir... Norman Browse, the three new authors bring their specialised knowledge and experience to complement the book's much-praised clear, didactic approach and broad insight into the general principles of surgery. The authors have updated all chapters in line with current developments. Amended sections include Muscles, tendons, bones & joints as well as The breast, where the terms describing benign breast disease and the classification of cancer staging have been fully revised.The book's numerous illustrations have also been fully updated, with many new photographs showing the more subtle surgical signs and demonstrating new approaches to surgical examination. There is also a greater emphasis on the doctor-patient relationship and patient confidentiality.
The Making of a Surgeon
No description available
Surgical Recall
No description available
