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At the heart of medicine : essays on the practice of surgery and surgical education

Title
At the heart of medicine : essays on the practice of surgery and surgical education / by David C. Sabiston, Jr. ; edited and with an introduction and epilogue by Barton F. Haynes.
Author
Sabiston, David C., 1924-2009.
Publication
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors
Haynes, Barton F.
Description
xv, 373 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
Collected Work.
Note
  • Compilation of previously published essays by David Sabiston.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-368) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. David Sabiston on David Sabiston -- Ch. 2. Taking care of business -- Ch. 3. The Duke University Medical Center -- Ch. 4. Deryl Hart : leader in the development of the Duke University Medical Center -- Ch. 5. The department of surgery of Duke University Medical Center -- Ch. 6. Major contributions to surgery from the South -- Ch. 7. The first hundred years : the Annals of surgery and a century of progress -- Ch. 8. Surgeons and the Nobel Prize -- Ch. 9. Friedrich trendelenburg -- Ch. 10. Allen O. Whipple -- Ch. 11. Alfred Blalock -- Ch. 12. Henry T. Bahnson -- Ch. 13. Medicine as a career -- Ch. 14. A continuum in surgical education -- Ch. 15. The training of academic surgeons for the future : the challenge and the dilemma -- Ch. 16. The effect of the three-year medical school curriculum on undergraduate surgical education : a professor's point of view -- Ch. 17. The surgical medical student curriculum at Duke -- Ch. 18. Specialization in surgery -- Ch. 19. The university teaching hospital -- Ch. 20. The coronary circulation -- Ch. 21. Coronary endarterectomy -- Ch. 22. Observations on the coronary circulation, with tributes to my teachers -- Ch. 23. Effect of cardiac contraction on coronary blood flow -- Ch. 24. The direction of blood flow in anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery -- Ch. 25. Coronary arteriography in the selection of patients for surgery -- Ch. 26. The diminishing mortality of coronary artery bypass grafting for myocardial ischemia -- Ch. 27. Radionuclide angiocardiography in the diagnosis of congenital heart disorders -- Ch. 28. The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism by radioisotope scanning -- Ch. 29. Diagnosis of massive pulmonary embolism in man by radioisotope scanning : first report of use of urokinase to treat pulmonary embolism -- Ch. 30. The pathophysiology of pulmonary embolism : relationships to accurate diagnosis and choice of therapy -- Ch. 31. Radioactive ventilation scanning in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism -- Ch. 32. Professional liability in surgery : problems and solutions -- Ch. 33. The antivivisection movement :. a threat to medical research and future progress -- Ch. 34. National health insurance.
ISBN
1594601631
LCCN
2005020786
OCLC
  • ocm61121131
  • SCSB-5227561
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries