Cutting remarks : insights and recollections of a surgeon /

Schwab, Sidney M., 1944-

Cutting remarks : insights and recollections of a surgeon / Sidney M. Schwab. - Berkeley, Calif. : Frog Ltd. : Distributed by North Atlantic Books, c2006. - xviii, 227 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents
Reality Check
Introduction
Part One: The Start
Chapter One: Inklings
Chapter Two: Into the Blue
Chapter Three: Blood on the Walls
Chapter Four: A Little Girl and Her Kidneys
Chapter Five: The Mission - Nearly Impossible
Chapter Six: On to Vascular Surgery
Chapter Seven: Heartstrings
Chapter Eight: A Bit of a Life
Chapter Nine: Treating Veterans, and Becoming One
Part Two: The Middle
Chapter Ten: Good as Gold
Chapter Eleven: A View of the Master
Chapter Twelve: A Taste of the Trauma Team
Chapter Thirteen: Gut and Glory .
Chapter Fourteen: Pus and Burns
Chapter Fifteen: Loose Ends of the Second Year, and a Vision
Part Three: The Beginning
Chapter Sixteen: Senior Resident at The County
Chapter Seventeen: Able to Teach
Chapter Eighteen: Trauma, Chiefly
Chapter Nineteen: Crumbs of The County
Chapter Twenty: Whipple
Chapter Twenty-one: Golden Colons
Chapter Twenty-two: Necks Case
Chapter Twenty-three: The Master's Voice
Chapter Twenty-four: Commencement Speech
Afterthoughts

Includes index : p. 223 - 226

Inklings -- Into the blue -- Blood on the walls -- A little girl and her kidneys -- The mission--nearly impossible -- On to vascular surgery -- Heartstrings -- A bit of a life -- Treating veterans, and becoming one -- Good as gold -- A view of the master -- A taste of the trauma team -- Gut and glory -- Pus and burns -- Loose ends of the second year, and a vision -- Senior resident at the County -- Able to teach -- Trauma, chiefly -- Crumbs of the County -- Whipple -- Golden colons -- Necks case -- The master's voice -- Commencement speech.

"A prominent surgeon's reflections on his medical training and profession, a nuanced, behind-the scenes picture of modern medicine and how doctors relate to both their peers and their patients. Above all a portrait of the kind of character it takes to be a surgeon"--Provided by the publisher.

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Surgeons--United States--Biography.
Surgery--Personal Narratives.

617.092 / SCH