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by: Oscar London
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 610
EAN: 9781580089173
ISBN: 1580089178
Label: Ten Speed Press
Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 109
Publication Date: 2008-04
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Sales Rank: 136961
Studio: Ten Speed Press
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This oft-quoted all-time favorite of the medical community will gladden--and strengthen--the hearts of patients, doctors, and anyone entering medical study, internship, or practice. With unassailable logic and rapier wit, the sage Dr. Oscar London muses on the challenges and joys of doctoring, and imparts timeless truths, reality checks, and poignant insights gleaned from 30 years of general practice--while never taking himself (or his profession) too seriously.
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Rating:  - Humor for doctors and those who would understand them
Having practiced medicine for longer than I'll admit, my sense of humor may no longer be entirely standard. London combines his love of people and hard-learned lessons of practice to produce these essays, fortunately of a length much shorter than Charles Lamb's. These transparently written essays may explain otherwise in-explicable physician behavior. "My daughter told the doctor she knew she wasn't pregnant, but he did a pregnancy test anyway." "My back hurts, and all my other doctors give me ... Read More
Rating:  - Maybe I'm missing something...
The cover of this book states that over 200,000 copies of Kill As Few Patients as Possible have been sold since its publication in 1987. So maybe I'm in the minority here, but I found this book to be, well, largely appalling.
In its 56 chapters, there are a couple of pearls of wisdom: praise your nurses, honor the elderly, don't worry too much. However, Oscar London's self-congratulatory attitude is overwhelming, and every single essay either borders on or plunges headfirst into the territory ... Read More
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