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Imagine the dilemma of a physician trying to watch over a loved one when things are going badly. Sherwin Nuland is a celebrity doctor; he was a surgeon for 30 years, teaches surgery and gastroenterology at Yale and is author of How We Die, which won a National Book Award. Last fall his daughter, 21, faced a crisis. She had been born with hydrocephalus--fluid on the brain. A shunt was put in, which worked fine for 21 years until it closed down. "She needed a total of four operations to get this straightened out," Nuland says. The experience tested...
...SHERWIN NULAND, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and author...
...disparage her later flirtation with spiritualistic thinking?is to miss the point of her life?s work. With a single book and a vigorous campaign of proselytizing, this remarkable woman gave permission to an entire generation and its successors to speak openly about our greatest fear. ?Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and author...
...wise to avoid hospitals during the holiday season, when staffing is routinely skimpy. "The worst time is between mid-December and the first week in January," says Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University. "That season's every bit as bad as mid-June to mid-July," when a new group of residents takes over...
Surgeon and best-selling author Nuland dialogues on his new book, The Doctor’s Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis, a medical detective story about Semmelweis, a figure remembered for his establishment of the notion that doctors must wash their hands prior to examining patients. Free. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...