Direct Red - A Surgeon's View of Her Life-or-Death Profession

"What a terrific book....[Weston] leaves you feeling that if push came to shove you''d want to be operated on by her." --Nicholas Shakespeare, author of Bruce Chatwin: A Biography The continuing popularity of doctor shows on TV--from Scrubs , House , and Grey''s Anatomy to the television phenomenon ER --indicates a widespread fascination with all things medical. Direct Red, by practicing ear, nose, and throat surgical specialist Gabriel Weston, takes readers behind the scenes and into the operating room for a fascinating look at what really goes on on the other side of the hospital doors. "A Surgeon''s View of her Life-and-Death Profession," Weston''s Direct Red is written not only with knowledge and insight, but with compassion, honesty, and literary flair.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gabriel Weston
• Verlag: Harper Perennial USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.07.2010
• EAN: 9780061725418
• ISBN: 978-0-06-172541-8
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Medicine: general issues, Surgery, Nursing, Medical profession, Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Political leaders and leadership, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, MEDICAL: Nursing / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Science & Technology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Rich & Famous, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Medical (incl. Patients), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Culinary, MEDICAL: Essays, MEDICAL: Surgery / General, MEDICAL: Physicians, Cookery / food and drink / food writing