Editorial Broadway Books
Fecha de edición junio 2010
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780767922470
Libro
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This book is about the process of making that diagnosis, making any diagnosis. So often this crucial linchpin of medicine goes unnoticed and undescribed, yet it is often the most difficult and most important component of what physicians do. As pervasive as medicine has become in modern life, this process remains mostly hidden, often misunderstood, and sometimes mistrusted. In movies and novels it's usually the one-liner that separates the fascinating symptoms from the initiation of the life-saving therapy. On television it's the contemporary version of Dr. McCoy's (Star Trek) magic diagnostic device (his tricorder) that sees all, tells all. But in real life, the story of making a diagnosis is the most complex and exciting story that doctors tell.
And these are stories that doctors tell. Just as Sherlock Holmes or Nick Charles (the hero of the Thin Man mysteries) or Gil Grissom (CSI ) delights in explaining the crime to victims and colleagues, doctors take pleasure in recounting the completed story of their complex diagnoses, stories where every strange symptom and unexpected finding, every mystifying twist and nearly overlooked clue, finally fit together just right and the diagnosis is revealed.
In this book I'll take you into those conversations and onto the front lines where these modern medical mysteries are solved or sometimes not.
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