Comprehensive history of Boys and Girls athletics from 1905-2004 at City High School in Iowa City, Iowa. Author was a 36 year teacher and coach at City High School.

It's a Great Day to Be a Little Hawk! A History of City High Athletics

John Raffensperger

J. Raffesnsperger

The author, who graduated from medical school in 1953, has in The Education of a Surgeon narrated the changes in medicine over the past sixty-five years. He also tells of operations from appendectomies on ships at sea to the separation of Siamese Twins. In the mid-twentieth century, medical education and its practices had changed little since the end of the 19th century. Students learned medicine by dissecting cadavers, peering through microscopes, attending lectures and by direct study of patients at the bed side. The laboratory was an adjunct to the history and physical examination. By the end of the century, few doctors took the time to take a detailed history or to perform a complete physical examination. X-rays, scans and a distant, automated laboratory make the diagnosis. Since the time of Hippocrates, doctors cared for the whole patient. Our professors, during the 1950s said we could not learn it all and urged us to specialize. My classmates learned to treat patients of all ages, deliver babies and fix broken bones but became surgeons, internists, paediatricians, obstetricians and psychiatrists. We thought of ourselves as doctors first. Now, there are super-specialists who may care for only one organ. In 1950, there were isolation hospitals for contagious diseases such as measles and scarlet fever; there were special institutions for patients with tuberculosis, poliomyelitis and rheumatic fever. Within one decade, antibiotics and vaccination essentially banished these diseases. Morphine, aspirin, digitalis, insulin, atropine and Phenobarbital, were our most commonly used drugs; doctors were amazed at the miraculous efficacy of the sulfa drugs and penicillin and used antibiotics sparingly for specific indications. By the end of the century, physicians prescribed antibiotics and other drugs almost at the whim of a patient. The discoveries of anaesthesia asepsis during the 19th century laid the foundations for modern surgery

The Education of a Surgeon (Professions - Training, Education and Demographics)

Medical Books

Medicine

Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT? From the hand of skilled surgeon Dr. John Raffensperger, writing as John Luck M.D., comes a penetrating medical thriller that lays the essence of corrupt 1950s Chicago open to the bone, deftly weaving a story that is equal parts mob, murder and medicine. When a local gangster loses the priceless diamonds he planned to steal from his mob boss, a doctor is suspected of recovering the loot from a wounded bagman hurt during the melee. For Cook County Hospital's Dr. Tom Slocum, a returning Korean war veteran in doubt of his ability as a doctor after losing a buddy during a battlefield surgery, the last thing he needs is another war-this time with the Chicago mafia, corrupt city workers and cops on the take. Will Dr. Slocum's scalpel save his own life as he tries to choose whom to trust? Will diamonds be the death of him? WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK UNIQUE? The author is a renowned surgeon. A 1953 graduate of the University of Illinois Medical School, Dr. Raffensperger interned at Chicago's Cook County Hospital and was a Medical Officer in the U.S. Navy. He went on to become the Chief of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon in Chief at Children's Memorial Hospital, and is still a Professor of Surgery (emeritus) at Northwestern University. Diamonds of Death brings detail of medical and forensic procedures few could match. His in-depth knowledge and vivid descriptions of Cook County Hospital and Chicago bring the city to life, conjuring images of mafia-laden lairs, antiseptic smells and sounds of swishing surgical scrubs of fast-moving interns in a busy hospital ward. The medical and forensic aspect of the book will appeal to fans of authors such as Robin Cook and to fans of TV shows such as Grey's Anatomy and C.S.I.

Diamonds of Death

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Five Star Publications, Inc. (AZ)

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