I Will Need to Break Your Other Leg
Subtitle: tales of medical adventure and misadventure
Publisher: Hammersmith Books Limited
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781781610541; 9781905140213
Subjects: Physicians; Biography; Rural poor; Health and hygiene; Health facilities; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Essays; Reference
Description: In these often hilarious, and always thought-provoking tales of medical intrigue and misadventure, drawn from the author's experiences as a doctor in rural Nepal and the inner-city wildernesses of the UK, Prasanna Gautam encounters medical conundrums with some very surprising outcomes. But there is much more to these stories than simple entertainment. How do your practise medicine ethically under a totalitarian regime? How do you pit the interests of the individual patient against strongly held cultural practices and beliefs? And how do you help a patient who is determined not to be helpe.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; PART I: Starting Out; CHAPTER 1: Too Little, Too Late; CHAPTER 2: Some Have Three; CHAPTER 3: Sexual Harassment; CHAPTER 4: My First Helicopter Ride; PART II: A Medical Officer In Rural Nepal; SECTION I Jumla; CHAPTER 5: I Will Need To Break Your Other Leg; CHAPTER 6: Let The Water Out; CHAPTER 7: Toothache; CHAPTER 8: A Tryst With Treponema; CHAPTER 9: Mismanagement; CHAPTER 10: The Spirit Of The Mountain Stream; SECTION II Dharan; CHAPTER 11: Never Again; CHAPTER 12: A Cervical Grip; CHAPTER 13: Sister Tara.; title: CHAPTER 14: The Price of BeautyCHAPTER 15: Daddy Will Make You Better; PART III: England; CHAPTER 16: Not A Clue; CHAPTER 17: Apartheid; CHAPTER 18: It Works Both Ways; CHAPTER 19: What A Smell; CHAPTER 20: Back Home; PART IV: Scotland; CHAPTER 21: A Rainy Day; CHAPTER 22: Jack and Jessie; CHAPTER 23: The Mind Reader; CHAPTER 24: The Death of a Cat; CHAPTER 25: She Would Not Have Come; CHAPTER 26: Looking Forward; Advertisement.