Small: Life and Death on the Front Lines of Pediatric Surgery - Couverture rigide

Musemeche MD, Catherine

 
9781611684421: Small: Life and Death on the Front Lines of Pediatric Surgery
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1611684420 ISBN 13 : 9781611684421
Editeur : Dartmouth College Press, 2014

Synopsis

As a pediatric surgeon, Catherine Musemeche operates on the smallest of human beings, manipulates organs the size of walnuts, and uses sutures as thin as hairs to resolve matters of life or death. Working in the small space of a premature infant's chest or abdomen allows no margin for error. It is a world rife with emotion and risk. Small takes readers inside this rarefied world of pediatric medicine, where children and newborns undergo surgery to resolve congenital defects or correct the damages caused by accidents and disease. It is an incredibly high-stakes endeavor, nerve-wracking and fascinating. Small: Life and Death on the Front Lines of Pediatric Surgery is a gripping story about a still little-known frontier. In writing about patients and their families, Musemeche recounts the history of the developing field of pediatric surgery--so like adult medicine in many ways, but at the same time utterly different. This is a field guide to the state of the art and science of operating on the smallest human beings, the hurts and maladies that afflict them, and the changing nature of medicine in America today, told by an exceptionally gifted surgeon and writer.

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À propos de l'auteur

CATHERINE MUSEMECHE, MD is a board-certified pediatric surgeon, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Her essay "Wake-Up Call" was included in the anthology At the End of Life, and excerpted on NPR's "Talk of the Nation." She lives in Austin, Texas.

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Éditeur
Dartmouth College Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1611684420
ISBN 13 
9781611684421
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
248
Coordonnées du fabricant
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