A Country Doctors Notebook

Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612191908
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Country Doctor's Notebook written by Mikhail Bulgakov and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part autobiography, part fiction, this early work by the author of The Master and Margarita shows a master at the dawn of his craft, and a nation divided by centuries of unequal progress. In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor named Mikhail Bulgakov was posted to the remote Russian countryside. He brought to his position a diploma and a complete lack of field experience. And the challenges he faced didn’t end there: he was assigned to cover a vast and sprawling territory that was as yet unvisited by modern conveniences such as the motor car, the telephone, and electric lights. The stories in A Country Doctor’s Notebook are based on this two-year window in the life of the great modernist. Bulgakov candidly speaks of his own feelings of inadequacy, and warmly and wittily conjures episodes such as peasants applying medicine to their outer clothing rather than their skin, and finding himself charged with delivering a baby—having only read about the procedure in text books. Not yet marked by the dark fantasy of his later writing, this early work features a realistic and wonderfully engaging narrative voice—the voice, indeed, of twentieth century Russia’s greatest writer.

Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 1847493157
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Doctor's Notebook written by Mikhail Bulgakov and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo. Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bulgakov reveals his doubts about his own competence and the immense burden of responsibility, as he deals with a superstitious and poorly educated people struggling to enter the modern age. This acclaimed collection contains some of Bulgakov's most personal and insightful observations on youth, isolation and progress. This edition also includes the famous piece 'Morphine' by Bulgakov.

Author : Roger A. MacDonald
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 087351663X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Country Doctor's Casebook written by Roger A. MacDonald and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humane and humorous collection of stories chronicling the work of a country doctor practicing in the remote north woods.

Author : Beach Conger
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160358384X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's Probably Nothing written by Beach Conger and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Probably Nothing continues the tale woven by Dr. Beach Conger in his first book, Bag Balm and Duct Tape. This new collection sees Conger and his wife yearning for new challenges and relocating to the suburbs of Philadelphia after 25 years in mythical Dumster, Vermont. Conger gamely takes a job in a teaching hospital in the poorest part of the city and gets to experience urban bureaucratized medicine and its trials- a far cry from the more idiosyncratic and hands-on version he practiced in Vermont. After 5 years Conger and his wife move back to Dumster, where he rediscovers more about his patients' capacity to both cope and cherish one another than he expected. Each of the tightly constructed chapters is centered around a particular patient or particular theme in medicine. It's Probably Nothing is both funny and poignant, and showcases both Conger's irreverent view into medicine and his profound empathy for the characters he encounters along the way. His experience highlights how medicine-and problems with out current medical system-can remain the same and yet be vastly different across class, race, and region. Among the people the reader meets are urban drag queens, small-town farmers and other heroes, Vermont celebrities, and the occasional reclusive author.

Author : John Salinsky
Publisher : Radcliffe Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781857758306
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Literature written by John Salinsky and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of the first volume, volume 2 describes more classic novels, short stories, plays and poems in a detailed and user friendly style. It is a refreshing book that will give doctors a new perspective on the doctor-patient relationship.

Author : Publications International Ltd. Staff
Publisher : Publications International
ISBN 13 : 9781412771269
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country Doctor's Book of Remedies & Cures written by Publications International Ltd. Staff and published by Publications International. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the country doctor's advice to discover dozens of simple, down-home ways to prevent and treat everyday health problems. Save money by using salt water, herbs, and easy lifestyle adjustments, rather than unnatural chemicals, for common ailments. Find out why meat tenderizer is a must-have for your summer walks, why oatmeal isn't just for breakfast, and how tennis balls can help you sleep better. Short, easy-to-follow tips reveal the wisdom of the country.

Author : Margaret Rose Thornton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300116823
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notebooks written by Margaret Rose Thornton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously edited and annotated, Tennessee Williams's notebooks follow his growth as a writer from his undergraduate days to the publication and production of his most famous plays, from his drug addiction and drunkenness to the heights of his literary accomplishments.

Author : Jerome Groopman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547348630
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Doctors Think written by Jerome Groopman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can—with our help—avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors, and his own experiences as a doctor and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his own debilitating medical problems. How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.

Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714545600
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaries and Selected Letters written by Mikhail Bulgakov and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of The Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diaries were seized by the authorities. From then on he confined his thoughts to letters to his friends and family, as well as to public figures such as Stalin and his fellow Soviet writer Gorky.This ample selection from the diaries and letters of Mikhail Bulgakov, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into the author's world and into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime.

Author : Arthur E. Hertzler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803257177
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horse and Buggy Doctor written by Arthur E. Hertzler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An honest and objective self-record that puts on paper one of the most beloved traditions of the past and shows that the fundamental virtues for which the country doctor was cherished have survived into the scientific present, while many not-so-good aspects of sentimental old days have fortunately been left behind.'---Books