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Nobility in small things : a surgeon's path
Title
Nobility in small things : a surgeon's path / Craig R. Smith, M.D.
ISBN
9781250278531
1250278538
9781250278548
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
xi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
"The celebrated cardio-thoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, writes an elegant story of life in the land of illness and daily miracles"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 20, 2023
Contents
Prologue
1: Making steel. Raw material
Coal handling
Making coke
2: Compass drift. Williamstown
The farm
Hanover
Distractions
Reorienting
Behavioral psychology lab
Insight
3: White River Junction. Reemployed
Heights
Before the mast
Bull and jam
Chiff
Countrymen
The flood
4: Medical school. Stell
Coasting
5: Making sausage. Rochester
Roads not taken
Columbia Presbyterian
Thanksgiving
6: Hearts and lungs. High on the heights
7: Storms
8: Bypassing a president. Act one
Act two
Coda
9: Religion. Confirmation
My young life
Healing faith
10: Error and accountability. Error
Accountability
11: Surging
12: Troubled waters. The faint roar ahead
Social justice
All in the family
Dead nature
A miracle denied
13: Prophecy. The bottom of the dam
Scarce resources
14: Discarded gods
15: Team science
16: River view. Foreboding?
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