Gifted Hands: America's Most Significant Contributions to Surgery You can download Gifted Hands: America's Most Significant Contributions to Surgery from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link The United States enjoys an established and essentially unchallenged role in the field of surgery. In this sweeping history of American surgical practice, renowned surgeon Seymour I Schwartz, MD, describes how surgery in this country advanced from the comparatively crude practices of pioneering physicians in the pre-Columbian and colonial eras to its current level of preeminence in scientific surgery today.
Of interest to the layperson and professional alike, Dr. Schwartz's engrossing narrative brings to life the personalities and sometimes dramatic conflicts that led to breakthrough contributions. In the nineteenth century, for example, the many colorful characters and surgical innovations included: a surgeon in a small Kentucky community who successfully removed a huge tumor from a woman's abdomen without anesthesia; the three individuals who each laid claim to the development of ether anesthesia; and the first successful gallbladder operation.
Turning to the twentieth century, Dr. Schwartz highlights the evolution of vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and organ transplantation. Many great innovators made crucial contributions, including the Nobel Prize winners Alexis Carrel, who developed a method to sew vessels together, and Joseph Murray, who worked on kidney transplantation in Boston.
Complete with an array of intriguing illustrations, this definitive work will captivate general readers with its engaging narrative and will inform medical professionals through its solid historical research and medical expertise.
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I just had to write this review - one of the reviewers had commented on the prose being less than outstanding - nothing could be further from the truth. Dr. Schwartz's writing style is elegant and precise - years ago, his textbook of surgery was the only one that made practical sense to me as a senior, surgical resident; and I remember being enthralled by his lively, terse and easy prose. He has a unique gift of communication and this book is no exception. It is full of the most interesting (true) stories about the giants of our profession on whose shoulders we stand. Highly recommended.
The reviewer alluded to (above) also wished that a "historian" had written this book. He obviously does not understand the mind of us surgeons - we do not read books on surgery written by historians, but we LOVE to read historical surgical texts written by surgeons.
By John Smith
I was disappointed by this unbearably brief book. Most of what's in here has been covered elsewhere in far more gripping prose and in much greater detail, allowing these contributions to be placed in a context often lacking here. Perhaps Dr. Schwart's effort would have been put to much better use had he collaborated with a professional historian.
By DoctorDad