TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Craig R.
TI  - Nobility in small things: a surgeon's path 
SN  - 9781250278531
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Smith, Craig R.
KW  - NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Heart surgeons
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Biography
KW  - Surgeons
KW  - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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?
N2  - "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"--
ER  -