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- catalog abstract ""Weisse tackles medical ethics, offers advice to medical and premedical students and their families, delves into unusual episodes of medical history, confronts considerations of aging and self-image, and discusses the vagaries of rewards and recognition available from medical research. He also examines honesty in medical thinking, investigates methods of dealing with bureaucracies, and considers ways of learning to live with oneself. Finally, he evaluates the changing nature of medicine and medical research and looks into the role of minorities and women in medicine."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10663998.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""Weisse tackles medical ethics, offers advice to medical and premedical students and their families, delves into unusual episodes of medical history, confronts considerations of aging and self-image, and discusses the vagaries of rewards and recognition available from medical research. He also examines honesty in medical thinking, investigates methods of dealing with bureaucracies, and considers ways of learning to live with oneself. Finally, he evaluates the changing nature of medicine and medical research and looks into the role of minorities and women in medicine."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Greetings -- 2. Betrayal -- 3. Vanishing Male -- 4. Pneumocystis and Me: The Small Joys and Great Satisfactions of Medical Sleuthing -- 5. Tuberculosis: Why "The White Plague"? (Another Detective Story) -- 6. Say It Isn't "No": The Power of Positive Thinking in the Publication of Medical Research -- 7. Beyond the Bench: A Vote for Clinical Research -- 8. Mostly about Books -- and Medicine -- 9. Confessions of Creeping Obsolescence -- 10. Man's Best Friend -- 11. "Non-Cognitive" Comes Home to Roost -- 12. Bats in the Belfry or Bugs in the Belly? Helicobacter and the Resurrection of Johannes Fibiger -- 13. Whither Our Children? -- 14. Sin for Saint William? -- 15. In the Service of the IRS -- 16. What's in a Name? -- 17. PC: Politically Correct or Potentially Corrupting? -- 18. SI Units: Wrong for the Right Reasons -- 19. Long and the Short and the Rest of It -- 20. On Chinese Restaurants, Prolapsing Heart Valves, and Other Medical Conundrums -- 21. So, You Want to Be a Doctor? -- 22. While the Getting's Good.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 147 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Staff and the serpent.".
- catalog identifier "0809321491 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Staff and the serpent.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,".
- catalog relation "Staff and the serpent.".
- catalog subject "610 21".
- catalog subject "Medicine Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Medicine essays.".
- catalog subject "R723 .W39 1998".
- catalog subject "W 9 W432s 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Greetings -- 2. Betrayal -- 3. Vanishing Male -- 4. Pneumocystis and Me: The Small Joys and Great Satisfactions of Medical Sleuthing -- 5. Tuberculosis: Why "The White Plague"? (Another Detective Story) -- 6. Say It Isn't "No": The Power of Positive Thinking in the Publication of Medical Research -- 7. Beyond the Bench: A Vote for Clinical Research -- 8. Mostly about Books -- and Medicine -- 9. Confessions of Creeping Obsolescence -- 10. Man's Best Friend -- 11. "Non-Cognitive" Comes Home to Roost -- 12. Bats in the Belfry or Bugs in the Belly? Helicobacter and the Resurrection of Johannes Fibiger -- 13. Whither Our Children? -- 14. Sin for Saint William? -- 15. In the Service of the IRS -- 16. What's in a Name? -- 17. PC: Politically Correct or Potentially Corrupting? -- 18. SI Units: Wrong for the Right Reasons -- 19. Long and the Short and the Rest of It -- 20. On Chinese Restaurants, Prolapsing Heart Valves, and Other Medical Conundrums -- 21. So, You Want to Be a Doctor? -- 22. While the Getting's Good.".
- catalog title "The staff and the serpent : pertinent and impertinent observations on the world of medicine / Allen B. Weisse.".
- catalog type "Anecdotes. fast".
- catalog type "text".