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Surgery Book: An Illustrated Guide to 73 of the Most Common Operations
Illustrating, in more than 350 step-by-step drawings, and comprehensively explaining seventy-five common operations, a leading surgeon answers questions, provides details, and calms anxieties about what to expect from these procedures.
448 pages, Hardcover
First published October 15, 1993
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April 22, 2013
This book was written at the correct level for my understanding and was enlightening, but I had some beefs.
First, the book expresses the author's personality in a way that is by turns enlightening and irksome. For example, he often digresses on nutrition, where he presents his ideas as facts despite not having citations for his claims or an obvious qualification to make such unqualified assertions. Other digressions, such as in talking about the observed psychological effects of some surgeries, are interesting to hear.
Second, even at the overview level this book was written for, it's simplistic. I would not have minded a but more information about how surgical and anesthetic drugs work, how nurses and doctors prepare for surgeries before the day of surgery (consultations, etc.), and what the nurses and anesthesia team do in PACU to bring patients out safely and comfortably.
First, the book expresses the author's personality in a way that is by turns enlightening and irksome. For example, he often digresses on nutrition, where he presents his ideas as facts despite not having citations for his claims or an obvious qualification to make such unqualified assertions. Other digressions, such as in talking about the observed psychological effects of some surgeries, are interesting to hear.
Second, even at the overview level this book was written for, it's simplistic. I would not have minded a but more information about how surgical and anesthetic drugs work, how nurses and doctors prepare for surgeries before the day of surgery (consultations, etc.), and what the nurses and anesthesia team do in PACU to bring patients out safely and comfortably.
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