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The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine
The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine
The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine
Audiobook7 hours

The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine

Written by Sherwin B. Nuland

Narrated by Michael Prichard

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

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About this audiobook

Long-time physician Sherwin B. Nuland presents a provocative and stimulating collection of stories illustrating the vagaries of medical practice over the years. Among the fascinating and probing questions that Nuland investigates are:

-What does the first Hippocratic Oath really mean?

-What happens when knowledge comes before we're ready for it?

-Why does major surgery using only acupuncture work?

-Is there really sympathy between the organs of the body?

-What happens when someone yells, "Is there a doctor in the house?" and you are the doctor?

-What goes through the mind of a heart transplant candidate who doesn't make it?
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 3, 2008
ISBN9781400176236
The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    An uneven collection of essays resurrected from The American Scholar.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Too much generalized philosophy, not enough practical points. I stopped reading after 20 pages. I can't afford to waste my life on this book.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Anyone who mentions the Flexner report without mentioning that it helped to close down pretty much every medical school for black or women doctors has a big heavy stupid white privilege knapsack shoved up his ass. Otherwise not such a bad dude, loved the end piece about his bromance with a heart transplant patient.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    While bits of this were fascinating, much more was meandering.