Playing Doctor

Author: john lawrence
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735507217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
John's medical memoir was born from chaotic, disjointed, funny and frightening late-night letters to friends over email (any recipients of which all those years ago will likely walk away now). Those manic blogs from the hospital wards during under-slept call nights (which left a few friends wondering if he had invaded the hospital pharmacy) were the genesis for this book, Playing Doctor. This is a journey through medical training as interpreted by someone who told their college career advisor that the only thing they did not want to be was a doctor-not that medical schools want you believing their training was interpretive, like a modern dance company's version of Grey's Anatomy-and started school with a traumatic brain injury. This entertaining, heartfelt demystification of medical school via the confusion and chaos that seemed to litter John's medical trail, takes readers along the studies and clinical wards that miraculously teach students how to care for patients. The follow up books cover residency.

Playing Doctor; Part Three

Author: John Lawrence
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735507255
Category : Medical students
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
READY TO FINALLY BE A DOCTOR? WELL, JOHN STILL WASN'T EITHER... John's medical (and personal) adventures continue with this insightful, often hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of fumbling through the final year of residency training as the reality of working as a doctor rapidly approaches. This third part in the Playing Doctor series brings John's unique and candid storytelling to his year as senior resident and into the first months of his medical practice. Initially, John penned email blasts while being held captive on call nights. His descriptions of the escapades, mishaps, disorder, and terror that surrounded his training, led several friends to enquire if he has broken into the hospital pharmacy. Eventually, someone asked to publish the stories, so John replied that he'd write down the whole adventure of becoming a doctor from medical school through residency.

Playing Doctor

Author: Joseph Turow
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472027573
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 472

Book Description
Playing Doctor is an engaging and highly perceptive history of the medical TV series from its inception to the present day. Turow offers an inside look at the creation of iconic doctor shows as well as a detailed history of the programs, an analysis of changing public perceptions of doctors and medicine, and an insightful commentary on how medical dramas have both exploited and shaped these perceptions. Originally published in 1989 and drawing on extensive interviews with creators, directors, and producers, Playing Doctor immediately became a classic in the field of communications studies. This expanded edition includes a new introduction placing the book in the contemporary context of the health care crisis, as well as new chapters covering the intervening twenty years of television programming. Turow draws on recent research and interviews with principals in contemporary television doctor shows such as ER, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, and Scrubs to illuminate the extraordinary ongoing cultural influence of medical shows. Playing Doctor situates the television vision of medicine as a limitless high-tech resource against the realities underlying the health care debate, both yesterday and today. Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. He was named a Distinguished Scholar by the by the National Communication Association and a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2010. He has authored eight books, edited five, and written more than 100 articles on mass media industries. He has also produced a DVD titled Prime Time Doctors: Why Should You Care? which has been distributed to all first-year medical students with the support of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation.

Touchpoints-Three to Six

Author: T. Berry Brazelton
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738213004
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 530

Book Description
For decades, new parents have relied on Dr. Brazelton's wisdom. But all "Brazelton babies" grow up. Now at last, the internationally famous pediatrician, in collaboration with an eminent child psychiatrist, has brought his unique insights to the "magic" preschool and first-grade years.Through delightful profiles of four very different children, the authors apply the touchpoints theory (following the pattern of growth-new challenge-reegression-recharging-and renewed growth) to each of the great cognitive, behavioral, and emotional leaps that occur from age three to six. In the second, alphabetical, half of the book they offer precious guidance to parents facing contemporary pressures and stresses, such as how to keep a child safe without instilling fear, countering the electronic barrage of violent games and marketing aimed at children, coping successfully with varied family configurations, over-scheduling, competition, and many other vital issues today. A Merloyd Lawrence Book

Let's Play Doctor

Author: Mark Leyner
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0307450074
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
CONGRATULATIONS! Your purchase of this book means that the admissions committee has thoroughly reviewed your application and we are pleased to welcome you to the Why Do Men Have Nipples School of Medicine.* *A not quite fully accredited institution Let’s Play Doctor is your instant guide to becoming a Real Fake Doctor. At the Why Do Men Have Nipples School of Medicine, we offer an informative, immersive, and incredibly entertaining course of study that will give you the special skills needed to get your M.D. on! By following the lessons in Let’s Play Doctor, you’ll learn: • Special mental exercises to give yourself that buff, bulging Doctor brain • How to impress your peers with big, polysyllabic, esoteric medical lingo (can you say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis?) • Easy ways to diagnose your girlfriend’s goiter or your father’s fistula • Do-it-yourself surgeries from hemorrhoidectomy to breast enlargement • And, most important, how to craft a completely believable, official-sounding get-out-of-work-for-medical-reasons note Tuition? Just $14.95. Enroll today! It’s time to play doctor!

Playwrights for Tomorrow

Author: Ballet
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816603820
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.

Nursing History Review, Volume 25

Author: Patricia D'Antonio, PhD, RN, FAAN
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826144578
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find this an important resource. Included in Volume 25... Compassionate Care Through the Centuries: Highlights in Nursing History “Endeavoring to Carry On Their Work”: The National Debate Over Midwives and Its Impact in Rhode Island, 1890-1940 “A Powerful Protector of the Japanese People”: The History of the Japanese Fishermen’s Hospital in Steveston, British Columbia, Canada, 1896-1942 Confectionery Care: The Child as a Category of Historical Analysis “Doctors Don’t Do So Much Good”: Traditional Practices, Biomedicine, and Infant Care in the 20th-Century United States

The Secret Lives of Girls

Author: Sharon Lamb
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743233069
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
From playground games of " chase and kiss" to rough-and-tumble soccer games, from slumber party stripteases to romantic fantasies behind closed doors, author Sharon Lamb coaxes out girls' true stories with uncommon sensitivity and focus. The result of more than 125 fascinating interviews with pre-teens, teenagers, and adult women, The Secret Lives of Girls reveals the ways that girls use their minds and bodies for private sexual play, mischief, and hidden aggression. To truly understand what little girls are made of, Lamb suggests, we must listen not only to what they say to us but also to what they don't say, taking into account their hidden selves and the lives that we adults don't see. Yes, girls are known to be " good, " but they manage to act out in decidedly ungirlish ways and, despite many parents' fears, be the better for it. What's most remarkable about Lamb's conclusions is that we needn't join the chorus of voices deploring a " girl-poisoning" culture for damaging our daughters. Instead, Lamb finds reason to celebrate girls' resilience in the face of pressures to conform -- and she does it by l

The Boardgamer Volume 3

Author: Bruce A. Monnin
Publisher: Past Into Print Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
The Boardgamer magazine was a quarterly magazine devoted primarily, but not exclusively, to the coverage of Avalon Hill / Victory Games titles and to other aspects of the boardgaming hobby. Initially, The Boardgamer’s publication ran concurrently with Avalon Hill’s house magazine, The General, but instead of focusing on new releases, it devoted coverage to those classic, Avalon Hill games which no longer graced the pages of The General. Following the cessation of The General in June 1998, The Boardgamer was the primary periodical dedicated to the titles from AH/VG, until its final issue in 2004. The contents of this volume consists of: Squad Leader - There’s Life In The Old Dog Yet Scenario Alpha - Learning Squad Leader By Playing We The People - Some Basic Strategies Hadrian’s Wall - Optional Rules For Britannia Avaloncon 1997 - Late Reports From The National Championships PT Boats versus The Tokyo Express - Optional Rules and New Scenarios Tokyo Express Preserving The Red Berets - Panzer Leader Scenario #10 A.R.E.A. News - Thoughts I Asked For It - Definitions For The Cynical Gamer’s Dictionary Quicker Wins w/ Marshal Petain - Using Vichy France To Put You Over The Top Three Ring Battle Royal - A Tournament Variant For Wrasslin’ Title Bout Stuff - A New Scoresheet and Other Notes Wilmington - The Forgotten City in 1776 Fighting Blind - A “What If” Scenario For Victory In The Pacific A.R.E.A. News - Missing In Action Across Five Aprils Series Replay - First Bull Run Avaloncon Hall Of Fame Update The Standard Michalski Opening - Opening Set-Ups in 4th Edition Third Reich Why I’m A “Barents On One” Believer - Allied Opening Strategy At War At Sea Panzers On The Loose - A Strategy Article For Russian Front Day Of The Jackal - A Variant For Assassin The British Receding - A New 1776 Scenario In The South - 1781 1776 Revisited - A 1776 Scenario At Avaloncon Deciphering The Panzerblitz Rules - Revised 7-17-97 March Madness Series Replay - Ohio Schools vs Florida Schools 1998 Midwest Open - Victory In The Pacific Tournament Recap Counting The Losses - Raid On St. Nazaire’s 10th Birthday The Short Road To Rome - Initial Italian Defense In 4th Edition Third Reich Navcon II Tournament Final - Victory In The Pacific - 1995 Luftwaffe For The 90’s - Updating the WWII Strategic Air War Game Shermans In The East - Some Panzerblitz / Panzer Leader Scenarios Avaloncon 1998 - Early Returns From The National Championships, Part 1

The Day the Bathroom Ceiling Fell

Author: Jeanne Sandberg Fuller
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 149171543X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
Readers who are homesick for small-town America fifty years ago, when the living was simpler and more family-oriented, will be delighted with these charming memoirs, which are full of humor and pathos, familiar settings, and real-life characters who leap off the page with vitality. Fuller's style is both original in vocabulary and homespun in approach, convincing us that we are there watching her grow up. The relatively uneventful, but extremely human picture she paints with words will capture the imagination of all who remember their own childhoods with longing for the less-complicated, but utterly satisfying life of those times. Charlotte Colby Andersen, B.A.,M.S, Writer, Lecturer, Photographer, Retired English Professor, Penn State University.