Category: Biography: Memoir: Medical

Copyright/published Year: 2009 by Hancock House

ISBN: 9780888396549

Binding: Trade Pap

Description: The author takes the reader through a totally frank and sometimes ì tumultuous career in medicine starting in his last year in high ì school to his forced retirement due to ill health more than forty ì years later. His career in retirement in the last twelve years, ì not far from medicine, has also been very interesting and ì described with insight and humour. In this book many very ì controversial topics have been raised as seen through the eyes of ì a busy doctor trying to do the best for his patients. Factual ì true life experiences describing the good and bad outcomes ì without hesitation. Vignettes of his patients have been weaved ì throughout the book, some to illustrate the general problems that ì are raised by their various illnesses. Some of the patients' ì histories have been changed slightly to avoid embarrassment but ì the names of his colleagues in medicine and their histories have ì not been adulterated in the slightest detail.

The book is intended to both educate and entertain the ì audience and make the lay public more aware of the huge problems ì facing the profession today. His personal stories of his farm, ì his family and friends are sometimes both hilarious and heart ì warming but there are also some very serious moments. Some of the ì pit falls of being a doctor are described as well as some of ì their fool hardy adventures and hobbies. He also provides a short ì course in veterinarian medicine. The book is arranged in topics, ì each chapter being different from the preceding one and hopefully ì these chapters will provoke lively discussion.

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This book is new.