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Operating room confidential : what really goes on when you go under / by Paul Whang.

Title
Operating room confidential : what really goes on when you go under / by Paul Whang.
Author
Whang, Paul, 1956-
Publication
Toronto : ECW Press, c2010.

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200 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
An anesthetist reveals operating room curses and superstitions, the characteristics of a good surgeon, and the patients that doctors fear, in this insider's view of the fascinating protocols of the operating room and the people who work there.
Subject
  • Whang, Paul, 1956-
  • Operating rooms > Popular works
  • Anesthesiologists > Canada > Biography
  • Salles d'opération > Ouvrages de vulgarisation
  • Anesthésistes > Canada > Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- A day in the operating room -- On call in the house of screams -- Off-label truths about doctors -- The good, the bad and the ugly -- Outside of the O.R. -- On the table -- Everything you ever wanted to know about anesthesia (but were too unconscious to ask) -- Some cutting remarks about the future of the operating room.
ISBN
  • 9781550229189 (pbk.)
  • 1550229184
OCLC
455791038
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library