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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 610.92 EAN: 9781400064786 Edition: 1 Reprint ISBN: 1400064783 Label: Random House Manufacturer: Random House Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: May 20, 2008 Publisher: Random House Release Date: May 20, 2008 Studio: Random House Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: “Life is short, and the Art so long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious; and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and the externals, cooperate.” –attributed to Hippocrates, c. 400 B.C.E. The award-winning author of How We Die and The Art of Aging, venerated physician Sherwin B. Nuland has now written his most thoughtful and engaging book. The Uncertain Art is a superb collection of essays about the vital mix of expertise, intuition, sound judgment, and pure chance that plays a part in a doctor’s practice and life. Drawing from history, the recent past, and his own life, Nuland weaves a tapestry of compelling stories in which doctors have had to make decisions in the face of uncertainty. Topics include the primitive (and sometimes illegal) procedures doctors once practiced with good intentions, such as grave robbing and prescribing cocaine as an anesthetic (which resulted in a physician becoming America’s first cocaine addict); the curious “cures” for irregularity touted by people from the ancient Egyptians to the cereal titan John Harvey Kellogg and bodybuilder Charles Atlas; and healers grappling with today’s complex moral and ethical quandaries, from cloning to gene therapy to the adoption of Eastern practices like acupuncture. Nuland also recounts his most dramatic experiences in a forty-year medical career: the time he was called out of the audience of a Broadway play to help a man having a heart attack (when no other doctor there would respond), and how he formed a profound friendship with an unforgettable–and doomed–heart patient. Behind these inspiring accounts always lie the mysteries of the human body and human nature, the manner in which the ill can will themselves back to health and the odd and essential interactions between a body’s own healing mechanisms and a doctor’s prescriptions. Riveting and wise, amusing and heartrending, The Uncertain Art is Sherwin Nuland’s best work, gems from a man who has spent his professional life acting in the face of ambiguity and sharing what he has learned. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A book that highlight's a venerated surgeon's writing skillsXXXXX "All of this is prologue [the preceding pages of the book's introduction] to introducing the substance of my book and explaining the title I having chosen for it. By now it is doubtless clear that [the book's title] "The Uncertain Art" refers to medicine and that I have been attempting in the foregoing paragraphs [of this book] to stake out a territory whose boundaries are sufficiently vague that I feel free to roam wherever inclination leads me. Roam, that is, so long as I stay ... Read More Rating: - Too Philosophical"The Uncertain Art" is primarily a collection of mostly philosophically-toned essays written for "The American Scholar" between 1998 and 2004. The underlying thesis, sometimes difficult to discern, is that while science has advanced rapidly and improved the practice of medicine, judgment still lies at the heart of diagnosis and therapy. Unfortunately, the book does not provide clear examples of this in practice. Part of the support of this thesis rests on brief vignettes of prior medical ... Read More Rating:  - Collections of Compassionate Insights from the White CoatsPhysician/author Sherwin Nuland writes with uncommon insight and compassion in this, his latest book. The book is actually a compilation of stand-alone essays and musings that apparently originally appeared in The American Scholar magazine. While the chapters stand alone as jewels in a collection, they reinforce the theme that medicine - for all its apparent scientific exactitude - remains an "uncertain art." We invest doctors and medicine with much more power than they have, perhaps projecting ... Read More Rating: - A NEW ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONTHE UNCERTAIN ART THOUGHTS ON A LIFE IN MEDICINE By Sherwood B. Nuland M.D. ("And sign here if you'd like to see his organs become more involved in community theatre." Danny Shanaban, Cartoon Caption in THE NEW YORKER, July 21,2008.) In his latest collection of medical essays, THE UNCERTAIN ART, Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, tells us about a new perhaps controversial and decidedly complex medical development: human heart transplantation. This essay is presented towards the book's ... Read More Rating: - not up to Nuland's standardThis book is a collection of recycled pieces written for the magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa society. Nothing is inherently wrong with a compilation, although the pieces didn't flow all that smoothly together. More important is the subject matter addressed; many of the chapters just didn't capture my interest the way his previous books have. And the writing seems a bit pretentious; never use a short word when a longer one can found. Its almost like the articles were written to impress those who are thought to fancy ... Read More 
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