Weisse, Allen B. <br/><br/>
The staff and the serpent :  pertinent and impertinent observations on the world of medicine / 
Allen B. Weisse. 
 - Carbondale :  Southern Illinois University Press,  �1998. 
 - 1 online resource (ix, 147 pages) 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Greetings --  Betrayal --  Vanishing Male --  Pneumocystis and Me: The Small Joys and Great Satisfactions of Medical Sleuthing --  Tuberculosis: Why "The White Plague"? (Another Detective Story) --  Say It Isn't "No": The Power of Positive Thinking in the Publication of Medical Research --  Beyond the Bench: A Vote for Clinical Research --  Mostly about Books -- and Medicine --  Confessions of Creeping Obsolescence --  Man's Best Friend --  "Non-Cognitive" Comes Home to Roost --  Bats in the Belfry or Bugs in the Belly? Helicobacter and the Resurrection of Johannes Fibiger --  Whither Our Children? --  Sin for Saint William? --  In the Service of the IRS --  What's in a Name? --  PC: Politically Correct or Potentially Corrupting? --  SI Units: Wrong for the Right Reasons --  Long and the Short and the Rest of It --  On Chinese Restaurants, Prolapsing Heart Valves, and Other Medical Conundrums --  So, You Want to Be a Doctor? --  While the Getting's Good.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16.  17.  18.  19.  20.  21.  22. 
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<br/><br/> Weisse tackles medical ethics, offers advice to medical and premedical students and their families, delves into unusual episodes of medical history, confronts considerations of aging and self-image, and discusses the vagaries of rewards and recognition available from medical research. He also examines honesty in medical thinking, investigates methods of dealing with bureaucracies, and considers ways of learning to live with oneself. Finally, he evaluates the changing nature of medicine and medical research and looks into the role of minorities and women in medicine. -- Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>[Place of publication not identified] : <br/>HathiTrust Digital Library, <br/>2010. 
<br/><br/><br/>Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. <br/>http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>058511191X 9780585111919 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medicine--Philosophy.<br/>Medicine--Anecdotes.<br/>Medicine.<br/>MEDICAL--Family & General Practice.<br/>MEDICAL--Osteopathy.<br/>MEDICAL.<br/>MEDICAL--Holistic Medicine.<br/>HEALTH & FITNESS--Reference.<br/>MEDICAL--Essays.<br/>MEDICAL--Alternative Medicine.<br/>HEALTH & FITNESS--Holism.<br/>Medicine.<br/>Medicine--Philosophy.<br/>Medical Ethics & Philosophy.<br/>Medicine.<br/>Health & Biological Sciences.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Essay.<br/>Electronic books.<br/>Anecdotes.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>R723  / .W39 1998eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>1998 C-413 W 9  / W432s 1998