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Beschreibung
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

A 3-year-old asks her physician father about his job, and his inability to provide a succinct and accurate answer inspires a critical look at the profession of modern medicine.

In sorting through how patients, insurance companies, advertising agencies, filmmakers, and comedians misconstrue a doctor's role, Andrew Bomback, M.D., realizes that even doctors struggle to define their profession. As the author attempts to unravel how much of doctoring is role-playing, artifice, and bluffing, he examines the career of his father, a legendary pediatrician on the verge of retirement, and the health of his infant son, who is suffering from a vague assortment of gastrointestinal symptoms.

At turns serious, comedic, analytical, and confessional, Doctor offers an unflinching look at what it means to be a physician today.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

A 3-year-old asks her physician father about his job, and his inability to provide a succinct and accurate answer inspires a critical look at the profession of modern medicine.

In sorting through how patients, insurance companies, advertising agencies, filmmakers, and comedians misconstrue a doctor's role, Andrew Bomback, M.D., realizes that even doctors struggle to define their profession. As the author attempts to unravel how much of doctoring is role-playing, artifice, and bluffing, he examines the career of his father, a legendary pediatrician on the verge of retirement, and the health of his infant son, who is suffering from a vague assortment of gastrointestinal symptoms.

At turns serious, comedic, analytical, and confessional, Doctor offers an unflinching look at what it means to be a physician today.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Über den Autor
Andrew Bomback, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, New Delta Review, Essay Daily, and Hobart.
Zusammenfassung
Three story lines infiltrate the book, providing a narrative structure through which the topics are handled: 1) the retirement, after a 50-year career, of the author's father, a distinguished pediatrician; 2) the questions the author's 3-year old daughter asks about what her doctor father does for a living; 3) the author's experiences dealing with his infant son's ongoing illness
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Fourth Wall
2. My Favorite Types of Patients
3. I Have Good News and Bad News
4. You Get Better Because We Are Better
5. Doctors at Home
6. Texters and Emailers and Tweeters
7. What Are Their Names?
8. Highly Attentive Medicine
9. It's Complicated
10. And It Will Last Forever
11. The Business of Medicine
12. A Diagnosis (Something to Do)
13. Everything You Say Is Important to Me
14. Harp Lies
15. The Longer You Stay, the Longer You Stay
16. The Future Is Already Here
17. History and Physical
18. Don't Worry
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781501338175
ISBN-10: 150133817X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bomback, Andrew
Redaktion: Schaberg, Christopher
Bogost, Ian
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 165 x 120 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Andrew Bomback
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2018
Gewicht: 0,166 kg
Artikel-ID: 110045408

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