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From Publishers Weekly
The author, a pediatrician and father, presents the complexities of his specialty in this engaging and informative medical narrative. Drawing on case studies, Sanghavi details what can go wrong in each part of a child's body and what medical science can or can't do about it. Sanghavi guides readers through his medical routine: in Japan, working with a team of pediatric cardiologists, he assists in the successful operation on a three-month-old infant with a blockage on the right side of his heart. However, despite the advances of medical technology, some children cannot be saved. Bobby, a five-year-old with cystic fibrosis, undergoes treatment every few months for his damaged lungs, but despite the best efforts of physicians his condition will continue to deteriorate. Throughout these accounts of seriously ill children, the author's strong commitment to his patients and his profession shines through. Although Sanghavi's initial motivation was to increase the reader's awareness of pediatric medicine, he comes to a personal realization that he has to make a leap from seeing "lungs and hearts" to "seeing whole people." Especially moving is a description of the author's feelings of medical helplessness when his father was dying and there were no more treatment options.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Structuring his book to follow patient rounds at the Children's Hospital in Boston, where he did his training in pediatrics, Sanghavi takes the reader on a tour of discovery through eight organ systems of a child's body, beginning with the lungs and ending with the gut. He describes how these systems work and what happens when something goes wrong, recounting true case studies that range from the commonplace (broken bones) to the peculiar (a teenage boy with a positive pregnancy test). Sanghavi also shares his personal insights into the ideology of being a compassionate physician. An outstanding quality of this work is that it shows how the author handles controversial issues, such as abortion and child abuse, in an objective and level-headed manner. Sanghavi's humanism is encouraging in today's world of high-tech, bottom-line medical care. His very readable book is a good resource for parents, as well as educators, social workers, and healthcare personnel who interact with children. Recommended for wellness collections and high school, public, and medical libraries seeking authoritative personal narratives about medicine.
Deborah Broocker, Georgia Perimeter Coll. Lib., Dunwoody, GA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Deborah Broocker, Georgia Perimeter Coll. Lib., Dunwoody, GA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The summer before beginning medical school I visited India, the land my mother fled almost twenty-two years earlier while pregnant with me, her first child. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Children's Hospital, United States, Deborah Eappen, American Academy of Pediatrics, Louise Woodward, New York, Johns Hopkins, Dominican Republic, Ken Mandl, Matthew Eappen, Peter West, Eli Newberger, New Jersey, Professor Koike, World Health Organization, Barry Scheck, Camp Sunrise, Journal of the American Medical Association, Sunil Eappen, Supreme Court New!
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The summer before beginning medical school I visited India, the land my mother fled almost twenty-two years earlier while pregnant with me, her first child. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
common pernicious anemia, child battery, brain bleeds, sickle hemoglobin, code team, intentional injury Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Children's Hospital, United States, Deborah Eappen, American Academy of Pediatrics, Louise Woodward, New York, Johns Hopkins, Dominican Republic, Ken Mandl, Matthew Eappen, Peter West, Eli Newberger, New Jersey, Professor Koike, World Health Organization, Barry Scheck, Camp Sunrise, Journal of the American Medical Association, Sunil Eappen, Supreme Court New!
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- Biological Science by James L. Gould in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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