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Author Whang, Paul, 1956-

Title Operating room confidential : what really goes on when you go under / by Paul Whang.

Publication Info. Toronto : ECW Press, [2010]
©2010

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 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  617.917 WHA    Check Shelf
Description 200 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references: pages 195-199.
Summary An anesthetist reveals operating room curses and superstitions, the characteristics of a good surgeon, and the patients that doctors fear, in this insider's view of the fascinating protocols of the operating room and the people who work there.
Contents Introduction -- A day in the operating room -- On call in the house of screams -- Off-label truths about doctors -- The good, the bad and the ugly -- Outside of the O.R. -- On the table -- Everything you ever wanted to know about anesthesia (but were too unconscious to ask) -- Some cutting remarks about the future of the operating room.
Subject Operating rooms -- Popular works.
Whang, Paul, 1956-
Anesthesiologists -- Canada -- Biography.
ISBN 9781550229189 paperback
1550229184
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