At the heart of medicine
Subtitle: essays on the practice of surgery and surgical education
By: by David C. Sabiston, and edited by Barton F. Haynes.
Contributors: Haynes, Barton F.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Duke University. Medical Center. Dept. of Surgery -- History; Duke University. Medical Center; Surgery -- Philosophy; Surgery -- Study and teaching; Surgery -- Collected Works; Academic Medical Centers -- history -- Collected Works; Surgery -- history -- Collected Works; Surgical Procedures, Operative -- Collected Works
Genres: Collected Works.
Notes: Compilation of previously published essays by David Sabiston.
Table of contents: title: David Sabiston on David Sabiston; title: Taking care of business; title: The Duke University Medical Center; title: Deryl Hart: leader in the development of the Duke University Medical Center; title: The Department of Surgery of the Duke University Medical Center; title: Major contributions to surgery from the south; title: The first hundred years: annals of surgery and a century of progress; title: Surgeons and the Nobel prize; title: Frederich Trendelenburg; title: Allen O. Whipple; title: Alfred Blalock; title: Henry T. Bahnson; title: Medicine as a career; title: A continuum in surgical education; title: Academic medicine: present and future; title: The effect of the three-year medical school curriculum on undergraduate; title: Surgical education: a professor's point-of-view; title: The surgical medical student curriculum at Duke; title: Current trends in specialization: the effect on residency training; title: The University teaching hospital; title: The coronary circulation; title: Coronary endarterectomy; title: Observation on the coronary circulation, with tributes to my teachers; title: Effect of cardiac contraction on coronary blood flow; title: The direction of blood flow in anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery; title: Coronary arteriography in the selection of patients for surgery; title: The diminishing mortality of coronary artery bypass grafting for myocardial ischemia; title: Radionuclide angiocardiography in the diagnosis of congenital heart disorders; title: The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism by radioisotope scanning: first report of use of urokinase to treat pulmonary embolism; title: Diagnosis of massive pulmonary embolism in man by radioisotope scanning; title: First report of use of urokinase to treat pulmonary embolism; title: The pathophysiology of pulmonary embolism: relationships to accurate diagnosis and choice of therapy; title: Radioactive ventilation scanning in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism; title: Professional liability in surgery: problems and solutions; title: The antivivisection movement: a threat to medical research and future progress; title: National health insurance.