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Title: In the Country of Hearts: Journeys in the Art of Medicine by John Stone ISBN: 0-8071-2104-5 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply The Best Medical Lit Work Yet Written
Comment: In spite of my personal opinion (which is admittedly biased), this collection of stories will compete on anyone's bookshelf for the best work of medical lit yet written. This *is* John Stone, the physician, the human hands, the poet, the wit, it's all in here.
Where to start?....Blue Baby is where John started by connecting a nursery rhyme with tetralogy of Fallot; An Infected Heart (which I've read to my students for >10 years now.....sometimes half the class is in tears by the time I reach the end where they inevitably gasp with comprehension of their own relationships with patients); Breath; Missed Signals; Balloon Man, it's a long and enjoyable list.
Reading and re-reading these gives you a sense of place within medicine (and reminds you exactly how grand those little events really are), it's a solid base from which to teach, it's wonder at the craft of an excellent wordsmith like Stone.
If you are in medicine, if you teach, if you are human.....read this one, you'll be glad you did.
Rating: 5
Summary: Compassion, warmth and humanism
Comment: Poet and cardiologist John Stone has written a compelling collection of essays and stories from his practice regarding his care of the human heart. The two disciplines not only get equal time but are beautifully juxtaposed in his writing. His tremendous love and appreciation for his patients and for medicine are easy to read between almost every line in the book. His warm sense of humor and keen eye for irony keep the stories from becoming maudlin, something that can happen easily in the telling of medical tales. This is a book for non-medical as well as medical people, a great traveller that can be read a few pages at a time; some of his stories are only one or two paragraphs! But even the shortest are thoughtful and provocative. Dr. Stone's deep humanism restores faith in the medical profession!
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Title: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy Leggatt ISBN: 0375701214 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Lost Art of Healing by B. Lown ISBN: 0345425979 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays by Richard C. Reynolds, John MD Stone, Lois Lacivita, Phd Nixon, Delese, Phd Wear ISBN: 0743201531 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal by Rachel Naomi Remen ISBN: 1573226106 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: The Scalpel and the Silver Bear by Lori Arviso, Md. Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt ISBN: 0553378007 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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