Research Catalog

Title

The operative note : collected editorials / Robert M. Goldwyn.

Author

Goldwyn, Robert M.

Publication

New York : Thieme Medical Publishers ; Stuttgart : G. Thieme Verlag, 1992.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xii, 212 p.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Zheng xing mei rong wai ke xue quan shu. Di 2 ji

Subjects

• Surgery, Plastic
• Miscellanea
• Plastic surgeons > Miscellanea
• Surgery, Plastic > Moral and ethical aspects
• Surgery, Plastic > Miscellanea
• Collected Work

Genre/Form

• Collected Work
• Miscellanea

Note

• Editorials reprinted from: Plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Who We Are, Were, or Will Be. "Surgeon" -- American Board of Plastic Surgery: In Pursuit of Excellence -- Decline of Plastic Surgical Dynasties -- Are We Training Surgeons for the Future or the Past? -- Is There Medicine After Residency? -- Malpractice and Medical Education -- Continuing Medical Education: More of an Opportunity than a Nuisance -- New Wine in Old Bottles -- Knowledge: What Kind and How Much? -- Joseph E. Murray, M.D., Nobelist: Some Personal Thoughts -- What We Do. What People Think of Plastic Surgery -- Operative Note -- Laws of Plastic Surgery -- Plastic Surgeon Knows Best: A Hazardous Assumption -- Craniofacial Surgery: An Opportunity for Patients and Plastic Surgery -- When Aesthetic Surgery Is Not Aesthetic -- Advent of Liposuction -- Consultation for Breast Reconstruction -- How Good Are Our Breast Reconstructions? -- Abdominoplasty as a Combined Procedure: Added Benefit or Double Trouble? -- Unproven Treatment: Whose Benefit, Whose Responsibility? --^
• Heard at Meetings: Phrases Convenient but Dubious -- How Some of Us Try to Make A Living - A Very Good Living. Fees: A Perspective -- When the Grasp Exceeds the Reach: A Disturbing Vignette -- Endorsements and Endorphins -- Overobliging and Underappreciated -- Blaming the Patient -- "He Talked Me Into It" -- Plastic Surgeons on the Make -- Marketing: The Sure Way -- Stickers to the Point -- "Doctor, You Need Me More Than You Think You Do" -- War of the Noses -- Stealing Patients -- Mrs. __ How Can I Help Myself? -- Selling and Buying a Horse for Its Ears -- Are You an Insider or an Outsider? -- Finesse -- Plastic Surgical Entries for the Guinness Book of World Records -- "Doctor, You Tell Me" -- Rating Game -- How We Sometimes View Health Care (?) and the World Around Us. Health or Else -- Health Care: America's Choice -- Health Care for All but Not for Nothing -- Limited Resources and Unlimited Rights -- Better Care - More Hostility --^
• One Little M.D., Two Little M.D.s....Then There Were All -- Baseball Strike and Plastic Surgery -- Indestructible Bacillus bureaucraticus -- Same-Day Admission and Omission -- Another Unnecessary Hurdle for the Aesthetic Surgical Patient -- Weighty Records: Medicine by Bulk -- Insurance Game -- Purchased Medical Care: A Frequent Illusion -- Malpractice Insurance: Taxation Without Representation -- Genesis of Juris Imprudence -- What Are We Learning from Big Business? -- Someone Out There Loves You -- Man's Best Friend -- Summer Thoughts -- What We Read and Sometimes Write. Words to Look At and Live By -- Reading and Remembrance -- Authorship -- Discussion -- Question of Priority -- Preliminary Results: Facts or Excuses? -- Scheming Not Writing for Publication -- Overexposure -- How We Accept or Reject a Manuscript -- Manuscript Acceptance: Excellence Not Favoritism -- Rejection -- Medical Book Review -- Wanted: An Objective, Long-Term Study of the New Face-Lift --^
• Consecutive Patients -- Reporting or Hiding a Complication -- Reality in Plastic Surgery: A Plea for Complete Disclosure of Results -- New Year's Resolution: Truth in Reporting -- Financial Disclosure for Authors.

ISBN

• 0865774315 (Thieme Medical Publishers)
• 3137828015 (G. Thieme Verlag)

LCCN

^^^92000458^

OCLC

• 25789785
• SCSB-14249589

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library