The Scalpel's Edge

Author: Pearl Katz
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0205270077
Category: Medical

The Scalpel's Edge: The Culture of Surgeons

This ethnography about the culture of surgeons describes how and why they differ significantly from other physicians. Download The Scalpel's Edge medical books for free.
Historically rising from humble roots as lower-class, uneducated, itinerant barbers, the profession has evolved into one of the most prestigious in America, one that utilizes the most sophisticated technologies in medicine. Surgeons have nonetheless retained many aspects of their historical culture, such as their proclivity for quick decisions, surgical "cures," and their detachment and aloofness from patients and other physicians. This book describes in detail what surgeons actually do in and out of the operating room. It reveals how they think about disease, patients, and other physicians; how their thinking is Get The Scalpel's Edge our bestseller medical books.

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