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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?
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Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., is the author of numerous books, including Doctors: The Biography of Medicine; The Wisdom of the Body; The Mysteries Within; Lost in America: A Journey with My Father; and The Doctors' Plague. His book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter won the National Book Award and spent thirty-four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic, the New York Times, Time, and the New York Review of Books. Nuland is a clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches bioethics and medical history. He lives with his family in Connecticut.
