Gifted Hands

Author: Seymour I. Schwartz
Edition: 1
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1591026830

Gifted Hands: America's Most Significant Contributions to Surgery

The United States enjoys an established and essentially unchallenged role in the field of surgery. Medical books Gifted Hands. In this sweeping history of American surgical practice, renowned surgeon Seymour I Schwartz, MD, describes how surgery in this country advanced from the comparatively crude practices of pioneering physicians in the pre-Columbian and colonial eras to its current level of preeminence in scientific surgery today.

Of interest to the layperson and professional alike, Dr. Schwartz's engrossing narrative brings to life the personalities and sometimes dramatic conflicts that led to breakthrough contributions. In the nineteenth century, for example, the many colorful characters and surgical innovations included: a surgeon in a small Kentucky community who successfully removed a huge tumor from a woman's abdomen without anesthesia; the three individuals who each laid claim to the development of ether anesthesia; and the first successful gallbladder operation Medical books Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story. Categories: African American physicians->Biography->Children's nonfiction, African American physicians->Biography, Carson, Ben. Contributors: Ben Carson - Author. Format: Paperback

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Categories: African American physicians->Biography->Children's nonfiction, African American physicians->Biography, Carson, Ben. Contributors: Ben Carson - Author. Format: Paperback

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 08/25/2009 Run time: 90 minutes

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

The inspiring story of an inner-city kid with poor grades and little motivation, who at age thiry-three, became director of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins University Hospital. It reveals a man with humility, decency, compassion, courage, and sensitvity who serves as a role model for youg people {and everyone else} in need of encouragement to attempt the seemingly impossible and to excal in whatever they attempt. Dr. Carlson also describes the key role that is highly intelligent though relatively uneducated mother played in his metamorphosis from an unmotivated ghetto youngster to one o

Medical Book Gifted Hands

In this sweeping history of American surgical practice, renowned surgeon Seymour I Schwartz, MD, describes how surgery in this country advanced from the comparatively crude practices of pioneering physicians in the pre-Columbian and colonial eras to its current level of preeminence in scientific surgery today.

Of interest to the layperson and professional alike, Dr. Schwartz's engrossing narrative brings to life the personalities and sometimes dramatic conflicts that led to breakthrough contributions. In the nineteenth century, for example, the many colorful characters and surgical innovations included: a surgeon in a small Kentucky community who successfully removed a huge tumor from a woman's abdomen without anesthesia; the three individuals who each laid claim to the development of ether anesthesia; and the first successful gallbladder operation.

Turning to the twentieth century, Dr. Schwartz highlights the evolution of vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and organ transplantation. Many great innovators made crucial contributions, including the Nobel Prize winners Alexis Carrel, who developed a method to sew vessels together, and Joseph Murray, who worked on kidney transplantation in Boston.

Complete with an array of intriguing illustrations, this definitive work will captivate general readers with its engaging narrative and will inform medical professionals through its solid historical research and medical expertise.