A physician as essayist
Subtitle: writings for the Chit Chat Club
By: Dr. Richmond Prescott.
Contributors: Chit-Chat Club (San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1997
Place of publication: [San Francisco?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, -- 1709-1784.; Tocqueville, Alexis de, -- 1805-1859.; Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910.; Medicine.; Historiography.
Notes: Foreword signed P.S.P. [Peter S. Prescott?].

Page numbers given in Table of contents (p. 7) are inaccurate.
Table of contents: value: The physician as essayist, and a San Francisco Institution; value: "A hogshead of sense"?; value: The best offense; value: Einthoven, Enthoven, and entitlement; value: The principle of self-interest rightly understood : de Tocqueville revisited; value: Antis; value: Story telling : nothing but the truth?; value: Hillary, Jackson Hole, and the newly independent states; value: Two angry men.