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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Tales of the Modern Hospital
A registered nurse explores the meaning of life and death throughout these provocative stories woven from the actual tragedies and miracles of patients and medical personnel in modern hospitals
- GenresMedical
262 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 1986
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Sallie Tisdale
34 books57 followersSallie Tisdale is the author of Talk Dirty to Me, Stepping Westward, and Women of the Way. She has received a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship, the James Phelan Literary Award, and was a Dorothy and Arthur Shoenfeldt Distinguished Writer of the year. Her work has appeared in Harper's, the New Yorker, and other publications.
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October 22, 2019
Fairly interesting case histories about the cases where medical science has advanced but patients are not exactly "fixed" - very premature babies who live, but with disabilities; kidney dialysis patients and the complicated issues around transplants, which create new problems; geriatric patients.
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