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Title Nobility in small things : a surgeon's path / Craig R. Smith, M.D.
Author Smith, Craig R. (Surgeon), author.
Publication Info. New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.
©2023
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 Hiawassee  617.412 SMI    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  617.412 SMI    Check Shelves
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Edition First edition.
Description xi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
still image sti rdacontent
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volume nc rdacarrier
Contents Prologue -- 1: Making steel. Raw material -- Coal handling -- Making coke -- 2: Compass drift. Williamstown -- The farm -- Hanover -- Distractions -- Reorienting -- Behavioral psychology lab -- Insight -- 3: White River Junction. Reemployed -- Heights -- Before the mast -- Bull and jam -- Chiff -- Countrymen -- The flood -- 4: Medical school. Stell -- Coasting -- 5: Making sausage. Rochester -- Roads not taken -- Columbia Presbyterian -- Thanksgiving -- 6: Hearts and lungs. High on the heights -- 7: Storms -- 8: Bypassing a president. Act one -- Act two -- Coda -- 9: Religion. Confirmation -- My young life -- Healing faith -- 10: Error and accountability. Error -- Accountability -- 11: Surging -- 12: Troubled waters. The faint roar ahead -- Social justice -- All in the family -- Dead nature -- A miracle denied -- 13: Prophecy. The bottom of the dam -- Scarce resources -- 14: Discarded gods -- 15: Team science -- 16: River view. Foreboding?
Summary "The celebrated cardio-thoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, writes an elegant story of life in the land of illness and daily miracles"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Smith, Craig R. (Surgeon)
Heart surgeons -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Surgeons -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital -- Anecdotes.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- New York (State) -- New York -- Anecdotes.
Genre Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
ISBN 9781250278531 hardcover : $29.00
1250278538 hardcover
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