Dottoressa - An American Doctor in Rome

With sparkling wit, an American doctor practicing in Rome reveals the many differences between American and Italian medicine.

List of contents

Contents

[preludio]
Prologue
1. Eternal City, Eternal Wait
2. Wet Paint on My Shingle
3. Seven Hills, Seven Offices

Interlude: Quo Vadis, Doc?

[moto perpetuo ad libitum]
4. Joining the Club
5. ItalyCare
6. In the Crunch
7. La Dolce Lifestyle
8. Down There

Interlude: A Baby That Wasn't

[opera buffa ma non troppo]
9. The Patient Game
10. The Doctor Game
11. Filthy Lucre
12. Playing Doctor
13. Sex in My Office
14. Madness and Misery

Interlude: Colic in the Coliseum, Cystitis in the Sistine Chapel

[opera seria ma non troppo]
15. Doctor Susan
16. Endings
17. Native Misinformant

Epilogue: Health Heaven, Health Hell

Afterword

About the author

Susan Levenstein has been practicing primary care internal medicine in Italy for four decades, treating an international clientele that's featured ambassadors and auto mechanics, millionaires and maids, poets and priests. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Levenstein
• Publisher: Paul Dry Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781589881396
• ISBN: 978-1-58988-139-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 351 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies