Bitten
Subtitle: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
Edition: 1st ed & 1st printing (stated) edition
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: July 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780312318222
Subjects: Emergency Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Essays; Toxicology; Medical / General; General; Bites and stings; Treatment
First sentence: In a chronic-care facility in Houston, Texas, on a routine morning check, nursing home attendants discovered one of their patients-a ninety-year-old woman who suffered from a weak heart and "moderately severe" dementia-fully conscious but covered with thousands of rice-sized insects.