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Author:

Przybylo, Henry Jay, author.

Title:

Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia / Henry Jay Przybylo, MD.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xiii, 240 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Przybylo, Henry Jay.
Anesthesiologists--United States--Biography.
Anesthesiology--Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Personal Narratives.
Anecdotes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240).

Contents:

A deep sleep -- Command center -- The five A's -- Railroad tracks -- Fear of the mask -- Nothing by mouth -- Heartbeats -- A most unusual patient -- Errors everlasting -- In wait -- Paper cranes -- A brain trapped in a box -- See one, do one, teach one -- Reentry -- Safe travels.

Summary:

A moving exploration of the most common but most mysterious procedure in medicine.

ISBN:

0393254437
9780393254433

OCLC:

(OCoLC)983209390

LCCN:

2017018049

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)