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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery's development-spanning the Stone Age to the present day-blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling. There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously life-frightening and life-saving as a surgical operation. Yet, in America, tens-of-millions of major surgical procedures are performed annually but...
2) Host
Author
Language
English
Description
"Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student at Mason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, she doesn't know it's the last time she will see him whole again. Devastated by Carl's death, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there's more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal, Lynn uses all her resources at Mason Dixon--including...
3) Cone cat
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2020].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One day Jeremy the cat wakes up at the vet to find a cone has been fastened around his neck. It bends his whiskers and bungles his super-cat sense. After attempting several fruitless escape maneuvers, he dejectedly accepts his new role: he is Cone Cat now. But when by a happy accident he discovers that his cone is perfect for tipping the breakfast bowl so that the milk and cereal pours right into his mouth (and stores leftovers for later), he realizes...
7) Bionic pets
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the history and technology of bionic pets for young readers.
Author
Language
English
Description
Basic surgical skills are essential not only for surgical trainees but also for every healthcare professional as most of them are expected to perform simple suturing at some point or the other in their career. There are plenty of books and courses which provide guidance trainees to understand and practice these skills. However, most of them are targeted at trainees with some experience in these areas. The FSS course is designed at providing a cost...
Author
Language
English
Description
Surgery is fun specialty in the entire medical filed. Books and literature are the main sources of knowledge. However, getting the knowledge from large textbooks or going through large numbers of papers is time consuming and exhausting. It is about time to change the way we get our information. The author digested tones of books, handbooks and papers and then he mixed them with his experience to produce this up-to-date and concise but thorough book....
Author
Language
English
Description
The author was driven to write this book for several reasons. It is his belief, based on personal experience, that the subject matter, a common phenomenon, is largely ignored at worst or badly taught at best with predictably bad or uncertain outcomes. While this book is aimed mainly at General Surgeons who do not regularly treat or operate on these cases it may also be of interest to others such as colorectal surgeons, trainee surgeons or even medical...
Author
Language
English
Description
This book can be studied by undergraduate students preparing for their MBBS exams in surgery, and by postgraduate surgeons in training preparing for the MD exam in general surgery and the MRCS exams. The aim of this book is to make the assessment of medical students fair, structured, and objective. It can also be used as a training and review book by the students to improve their skills in history taking, clinical examination, and communication. It...
Author
Language
English
Description
The idea for the Surgical Oncology Manual was generated by the general surgical oncology fellows at the University of Toronto. The Surgical Oncology Manual reflects the current approach to the management of surgical oncology in General Surgery at the University of Toronto. The manual provides consensus of opinion on how to treat patients with particular malignancies. The manual outlines the essential elements of diagnosis, staging, and clinical management...
Author
Language
English
Description
Surgery is the crude art of cutting people open, yet it is also a symphony of delicate manipulation and subtle chords. So says Jonathan Kaplan in his stunning book Contact Wounds, an electrifying account of a doctor's education in the classroom, in life, and on the battlefield. Inspired by his father, a military surgeon in World War II and Israel's nascent fight for statehood, Kaplan became a doctor and was appointed to a post at a woefully understaffed...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ulster has produced an impressive number of surgeons who have gained world-wide renown. None has been more celebrated, or more deserving of a biography than Sir Ian Fraser whose life spanned almost the whole of the 20th century. Following a brilliant university career, Fraser's training occupied most of the inter-war years. As with most innovatory surgeons, his career really flourished in war-time conditions. During the Second World War, he was at...
Author
Language
English
Description
As you read Sports Hernia, Doctor David and Michael Albin, the Hernia Specialists, will put your mind at ease with the latest information and a rundown of the most cutting-edge surgical techniques available to help you decide what is best for you. Drs. David and Michael Albin have performed over 20,000 hernia surgeries. This book will help inform you when hernia surgery is absolutely necessary, when you can wait, and when you may not need surgery...
17) Lost in darkness
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even if there be monsters, there is none so fierce as that which resides in man's own heart.
Enchanting Regency-Era Gothic Romance Intertwined with Inspiration from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Travel writer Amelia Balfour's dream of touring Egypt is halted when she receives news of a revolutionary new surgery for her grotesquely disfigured brother. This could change everything, and it does...in the worst possible way.
Surgeon Graham Lambert has...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Using innovative designs and technology such as 3-D printing, humans are helping animals in need. Discover the amazing true stories of five animals that have survived thanks to their prosthetic body parts"--
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