Author: Selzer, Richard

Price: $11.32

Category:Arts & Literature Biographies
Publication Date:1996-04-15T00:00:01Z
Pages:208
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0156003996
ISBN:13:9780156003995
In highly personal pieces that are both memoirs of the author's own imperfect experiences as a young doctor and "letters" ostensibly addressed to medical hopefuls, he brings to light both the brutality and beauty of the profession in which saving and losing lives is all in a day's work. A surgeon, he shows, must be at once infallible and infallibly human- a mortal miracle worker whose task is to overwhelm and control the body, but "kindly and gravely, and without condescension."--Publishers description.