Nobility in small things : a surgeon's path /
Smith, Craig R. (Surgeon),
Nobility in small things : a surgeon's path / Craig R. Smith, M.D. - First edition. - xi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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?
"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"--
9781250278531 1250278538
2023019624
Smith, Craig R. (Surgeon)
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital--Anecdotes.
Heart surgeons--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
Surgeons--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---New York (State)--New York--Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
Nobility in small things : a surgeon's path / Craig R. Smith, M.D. - First edition. - xi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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?
"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"--
9781250278531 1250278538
2023019624
Smith, Craig R. (Surgeon)
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital--Anecdotes.
Heart surgeons--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
Surgeons--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---New York (State)--New York--Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.