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Holt, Terry,

Internal medicine : a doctor's stories / Terrence Holt. - xii, 273 pages ; 22 cm

"First published as a Liverlight paperback 2015."

A sign of weakness -- Giving bad news -- Orphan -- The perfect code -- When I was wrong -- Heart failure -- The surgical mask -- Iron Maiden -- The Grand Inquisitor.

"Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this ... account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. 'Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives, ' [this book] finds the compassion from which doctors discover the strength to care"--Dust jacket flap.

ISBN: 9781631490873 1631490877

Subjects--Personal Names:
Holt, Terry.
Holt, Terry.
Holt, Terry.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Medicine--Anecdotes.
Internal medicine--Anecdotes.
Physicians--United States--Biography.
Internal medicine.
Medicine.
Physicians.
Internal Medicine.
Internship and Residency.
Physicians.
Physician-Patient Relations.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Anecdotes.
Biography.
Short stories.
Personal Narratives.

LC Class. No.: R705 / .H65 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 616

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WZ 305