Add this copy of Doctors to cart. $42.71, like new condition, Sold by Lisa Van Munster, ships from Oshawa, ON, CANADA, published 1983 by Macmillan of Canada A Division of Gage Publishing Limited.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped (Portion Missing From Upper Edge on Cover Panel); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. DESIGN: Brant Cowie/Artplus. JACKET PHOTO: Michael Rafelson. JACKET DESIGN: Brant Cowie/Artplus. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Prologue; ONE Reverence for Life; TWO Doctor to the Shah; THREE The Doctors' Doctor; FOUR The Other Medicine; FIVE Rookie Doctor; SIX Doctors Who Left; SEVEN The Plumber Is a Lady; EIGHT When Doctors Err; NINE The Maverick; TEN The Last Doctor; ELEVEN Deus Ex Machina. SYNOPSIS: "Doctors are the most familiar professionals. They bring us into the world, try their best to keep us here, and at the end they help us fight the last fight, yet they remain shrouded in a potent mystique, " writes Martin O'Malley. "In a secular age, doctors are the priests of flesh and blood, prescribing sacraments, saving us." Doctors presents us with under-the-skin portraits of Canadian physicians who talk openly about their careers, the unusual challenges and pressures they face, their rewards--financial and spiritual--the politics of institutionalized medicine, and the high cost of making a mistake. To write this book Martin O'Malley visited doctors' offices and operating rooms, listening in on consultations and witnessing life-saving surgery, talking to patients and their doctors across the country. In his role as the curious layman, O'Malley introduces us to Dr. Harley Smyth, a Toronto neurosurgeon who describes the intricacies of performing microscopic surgery on the human brain for ten hours at a stretch, and agonizes privately over the ethics of modern medicine. Dr. Christina Hill, an Ottawa urologist, dons red rubber boots to puddle about in urine while she operates, likening the "thrill" of her work to her hobby of flying a small plane. Dr. Paul Henteleff of Winnipeg discusses the paradox of being trained to cure but choosing instead to care for the terminally ill--to be their "last doctor". Other chapters concern a Toronto forensic psychiatrist testifying in a brutal murder case, a Saskatchewan family practitioner who has abandoned traditional medicine to treat his patients by unorthodox holistic methods, a Vancouver radiologist who pioneered a technique he used on the Shah of Iran, and an Ontario doctor who treats other doctors for the all-too-prevalent symptoms of professional burnout--alcoholism, drug abuse, marital and personality breakdown. Medicine touches the core of being human, of the meaning of life, its mysteries and wonders, and Doctors is a moving book, worthy of its important subject. It is a book you will never forget. Winnipeg native Martin O'Malley has been a journalist for over twenty years, during which time he was national reporter and feature writer for the Globe and Mail. Since 1977 he has been working freelance, contributing articles to a wide variety of Canada's top magazines. He is the author of The Past and Future Land (an account of the Berger Inquiry, 1976). A baseball fanatic, he lives in Toronto.
