Scalpel's Edge, The
Subtitle: The Culture of Surgeons
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Published: October 12, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780205270071
Description: Encounters with surgeons -- The surgeon as hero -- Are surgeons scientists? -- Styles of surgeons -- Communication with colleagues -- Communication with patients -- How surgeons make decisions: influence of activosture on decision-making -- surgical decision-making, referrals, and "keeping" patients -- The natural history of surgical decisions and their consequences -- Operating room rituals -- Implications of the culture of surgeons for modern medicine -- Appendices.