Research Catalog

Title

Things That Matter : Stories of Life & death / David Galler.

Author

Galler, David

Publication

Auckland : Allen & Unwin, 2016.

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Details

Description

225 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

An intensive care specialist reflects on life and death through his fascinating stories of working in emergency medicine. In this highly articulate, down-to-earth, generous and thoughtful book, Dr David Galler tells stories of life and death from his position as head of intensive care at a busy city hospital...Weaving his own personal stories throughout - including the death of his parents - David frames a number of chapters around key organs such as the heart, brain, kidneys; talking about their physical nature as well as their importance emotionally and holistically. He discusses wider issues like difficult conversations with patients and the doctor patient relationship in general as well as broader topics like organ donation...While Things That Matter isn't sentimental or mawkish, neither is it clinical. It's an intelligent read, and an eye-opener for those not in the medical world. David doesn't shy away from the political either, and covers topics like treating people not diseases; where medicine has gone wrong and how we might fix it; and when doing less can be more and doing things differently can be life saving for patients and hospitals alike...

Alternative Title

Middlemore Intensive Care Unit stories of life and death

Subject

• Galler, David
• Galler, David, 1929-
• Physicians > New Zealand > Biography
• Medical care > New Zealand
• Physician and patient
• Biography & True Stories
• Medical care
• Physicians
• Physician-Patient Relations
• New Zealand

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Autobiographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1. The heart -- Chapter 2. Hat and hope is not a plan -- Chapter 3. The kidney -- Chapter 4. The modern day plague -- Chapter 5. Medical revolutionaries -- Chapter 6. Close calls -- Chapter 7. The ultimate gift -- Chapter 8. The art of medicine -- Chapter 9. My best ever patient.

ISBN

• 9781877505645
• 1877505641

OCLC

• 951096712
• SCSB-10598754

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library