The humor of healing
Subtitle: an amusing history of American medicine
By: Donald A. Johnson.
Publisher: Badger Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oregon, WI
Language: eng
Subjects: Medicine -- United States -- Anecdotes; Medicine -- United States -- History -- Anecdotes; Medicine; Wit and Humor -- history
Genres: Anecdotes.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The humor of healing; title: Why be a doctor?; title: The fabric of man; title: Babies; title: Education; title: Learning to doctor; title: Waiting for patients; title: Distaff doctors; title: Charging too much; title: The pleasures and the pain; title: Drugs, bloodletting and alcohol; title: Surgeons; title: Communication; title: Laughter in the library; title: Discovery and innovation; title: The realm of the self.