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Death on the Learning Curve
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Death on the Learning Curve Hardcover - 2006

by Pierce Scranton MD


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A hospital operating room may not be as safe as you think it is. Hiding among the sterile scrubs and gleaming instruments of an operating room is a whole lot of high drama: split-second life-and-death decisions.deep questions of ethics.roaring personality conflicts.the glory of saving a life-and the horror when a simple procedure goes terribly wrong.Renowned surgeon Pierce Scranton, Jr., kept a detailed diary of his internship year at a busy California teaching hospital. This book is a vivid, fictionalized memoir of that year in the trenches. Through the intertwined stories of teachers, students and patients, it explores issues like: What happens when teaching and healing come into conflict? When is a new treatment to prolong life a good idea, and when is it a disaster? How did lawyers and bean-counters get so much power? And when do relationships between doctors and other staff go too far? This honest account is startling and sometimes shocking-but always gripping.

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  • Title Death on the Learning Curve
  • Author Pierce Scranton MD
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 329
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Elite Books, Santa Rosa, California
  • Date November 30, 2006
  • ISBN 9781600700149 / 1600700144
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.96 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 2.44 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Medical novels, Residents (Medicine)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006028111
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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