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Product Description: In December 2008, Maria Siemionow, M.D. made headlines by performing the world's first near-total face transplant. It was an extraordinary event in a thirty-year medical career marked by many astonishing milestones. Now she recalls her remarkable journey in Face to Face, a unique memoir that traces the path from her childhood in Poland to her medical training there and in Finland...read more

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9781607140511 | 1 edition (Kaplan, June 2, 2009), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In December 2008, Maria Siemionow, M.

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In a series of reflections on the world of modern medicine, a young doctor describes how physicians must deal with the inescapable reality of death, the risks and rewards of emotional involvement, patients' expectations concerning their doctors, and her personal experiences throughout her education, residency, and practice with mortality. 75,000 first printing.

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9780307263537 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 9, 2007), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In a series of reflections on the world of modern medicine, a young doctor describes how physicians must deal with the inescapable reality of death and her personal experiences throughout her education, residency, and practice with mortality.

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Product Description: Many Changeful Years might well have The Moulding of a Surgeon for it tells of the early life of a man who became one of the first dozen or so microsurgeons to reattach amputated limbs (as outlined in the prologue, the story of an injured infant)Throughout the main theme, the author interjects, as a counterpoint, tales and commentaries from his later life as an established surgeon, dealing with unique patients and colleagues, the working life of an emergency surgeon, errors and their causes, nursing practice, the adverse impact of managed care, changes in discipline and surgery in the less developed world...read more

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9781413492996 | Xlibris Corp, June 14, 2005, cover price $36.99 | About this edition: Many Changeful Years might well have The Moulding of a Surgeon for it tells of the early life of a man who became one of the first dozen or so microsurgeons to reattach amputated limbs (as outlined in the prologue, the story of an injured infant)Throughout the main theme, the author interjects, as a counterpoint, tales and commentaries from his later life as an established surgeon, dealing with unique patients and colleagues, the working life of an emergency surgeon, errors and their causes, nursing practice, the adverse impact of managed care, changes in discipline and surgery in the less developed world.

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9781413492989 | Xlibris Corp, June 14, 2005, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Many Changeful Years might well have The Moulding of a Surgeon for it tells of the early life of a man who became one of the first dozen or so microsurgeons to reattach amputated limbs (as outlined in the prologue, the story of an injured infant)Throughout the main theme, the author interjects, as a counterpoint, tales and commentaries from his later life as an established surgeon, dealing with unique patients and colleagues, the working life of an emergency surgeon, errors and their causes, nursing practice, the adverse impact of managed care, changes in discipline and surgery in the less developed world.

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Product Description: Like the 14th-century surgeon in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dr. Augusto Sarmiento has a tale to tell. This book is both an interesting autobiographical story of a young immigrant doctor's rise to success in the United States and a critique of recent trends in American medicine by someone who is now a recognized authority in orthopaedic surgery...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781591020493 | Prometheus Books, May 1, 2003, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Like the 14th-century surgeon in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dr.

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Product Description: To the abdominal surgeon a first successful Whipple procedure is what a first combat mission is to the fighter pilot: a symbol of competence - the fruits of prolonged training. Not many surgeons have managed to incorporate their names into a commonly used eponym; Allen Whipple did and so became immortalized as a household name to surgeons worldwide...read more
By Samir Johna (editor) and Moshe Schein (editor)

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9781903378144 | Tfm Pub Ltd, May 1, 2003, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: To the abdominal surgeon a first successful Whipple procedure is what a first combat mission is to the fighter pilot: a symbol of competence - the fruits of prolonged training.

A trauma surgeon describes his life as a field doctor in various locales around the world as he reveals the devastation he has encountered in some of the zones of conflict in which he has worked and the challenging struggle he has had to maintain his humanity in the face of unbearable odds. Reprint.

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9780802117076 | Grove Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A trauma surgeon describes his life as a field doctor in various locales around the world as he reveals the devastation he has encountered in some of the zones of conflict in which he has worked.

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9780802139627 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, February 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A trauma surgeon describes his life as a field doctor in various locales around the world as he reveals the devastation he has encountered in some of the zones of conflict in which he has worked.

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Product Description: Benson Roe relates his emergence from a mundane, comfortable, middle-class background and education into an exciting and unexpected career in the hallowed halls of medicine and surgery. A career highlighted by the development of open-heart surgery spans the Great Depression, World War II, the earliest phases of modern intensive surgery, and the explosive growth of the new specialty...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780887394249 | Creative Arts Book Co, August 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Benson Roe relates his emergence from a mundane, comfortable, middle-class background and education into an exciting and unexpected career in the hallowed halls of medicine and surgery.

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Product Description: The first patients to receive transplanted and artificial organs died, often after long periods of suffering. Despite these setbacks, the promise of saving a patient's life from an implanted organ was compelling enough to drive doctors and scientists to pursue transplants and artificial organs throughout the 20th century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781584151166 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, July 1, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The first patients to receive transplanted and artificial organs died, often after long periods of suffering.

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Product Description: Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Munich, Germany. Pictorial biography with 78 mostly unpublished halftone photographs. Provides an insight into the life of this famous surgeon. Softcover.

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9781576261132 | Quality Medical Pub, January 1, 1999, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Munich, Germany.

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