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Five Patients : The Hospital Explained by Michael Crichton (1989, Mass Market)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100345354648

ISBN-139780345354648

eBay Product ID (ePID)152709

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFive Patients : the Hospital Explained

SubjectPhysician & Patient, Healing, General, Medical

Publication Year1989

TypeTextbook

AuthorMichael Crichton

Subject AreaHealth & Fitness, Biography & Autobiography, Medical

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight5.3 Oz

Item Length6.9 in

Item Width4.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal362.1/1/0974461

Synopsis"Crichton has an extraordinary capacity to seize upon, then make real and personal, the new and the complex, the intriguing and the frighening." THE NATION In this incisive, detailed survey of five patients, famous thriller author and doctor Michael Crichton explores the dramatic workings of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston's oldest and most prestigious. This readable account covers not only the history of the hospital's place in society, but also the actual minute-to-minute functions of Mass General, where health professionals wage their daily battle against disease and death. Crichton's insightful look at the changes in medicine and surgery caused by technological strides of recent years makes for amazing reading., A construction worker in his fifties is seriously injured in the collapse of a scaffold....A middle-aged railroad dispatcher develops a high fever that makes him wildly delirious....A young worker nearly severs his hand from his arm in an accident....A woman traveling alone has persistent chest pains and is treated by a doctor on a TV screen....A mother of three is diagnosed with a deadly disease....