Wednesday's Child: The Autobiography, Musings, and Rants of a Contemporary Physician - Part Two
Language: English
Published by Booklocker.com, 2022
- Softcover
- New
Seller: Biblios, frankfurt am main, hessen, GermanyBiblios
AbeBooks seller since September 10, 2024
Condition: New
£ 38.21
Quantity: 4 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
PRINT ON DEMAND.
Seller Inventory # 18394911264
- Title
- Wednesday's Child: The Autobiography, Musings, and Rants of a Contemporary Physician - Part Two
- Author
- DeCarlo M D, Alan N
- Publisher
- Booklocker.com
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1647199085
- ISBN 13
- 9781647199081
Wednesday's Child, the autobiography of a retired Cardiologist, spans seven decades is written in three parts: Youth, Manhood, and Old Age.
The story is satirical, inductively reasoned, intentionally irreverent, and purposefully iconoclastic. It is an intimate vignette of incidents, personal and medical anecdotes, facts, and opinions. Family and personal relationships are laid bare as the author also describes his own flaws and shortcomings. Much like Aesop's Fables, the author seeks to find a kernel of universal truth in a litany of humorous, unusual, entertaining, sordid, or salacious anecdotal episodes.
Part One, Youth, describes the author's social and ancestral roots then follows him through the 1950s and late nineteen 1960s-up to and including Medical School in 1969. He explores the difficulties inherent in the culture-clash marriage of his parents; an impoverished Texas farm girl and a first-generation New York Italian dentist who met during World War II.
He describes the tribulations of navigating grammar school and college education at Duke University during the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War-an era when polarized politics led to campus riots and the temptations inherent in alcohol and drug use. Readers will also experience the behind-the-scenes rigors of Medical School and what it takes to become a novice physician graduate.
Part Two, Manhood, describes five years of postgraduate medical training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at a New York City hospital adjacent to the Harlem ghetto during the violent crime-ridden years of the 1970s. This was the era of pansexual 'free love' that ushered in the homosexual AIDs epidemic, the Disco craze, and excessive drug use.
The author describes the difficulties of starting a medical practice and building Cardiology services in the posh New York, Long Island Hamptons. The practice and business of medicine, the perils of Medical Malpractice, and onerous interference by government regulations are described. He becomes affiliated with the local police, a CIA operative, a loan shark, and a spate of eclectic patients, friends, and celebrities.
The author then gets a Master's Degree in medical management and becomes a hospital Medical Director. Clinical medicine segues into bureaucratic oversight that includes confronting the foibles of several dysfunctional physicians.
Part Three, Old Age, includes a brief clinical tenure in Tennessee, personal burnout, and retirement, followed by working for several volunteer services. He must also care for aging parents, one of whom has Alzheimer's Disease. This is woven into the author's opinions on selected social and political issues that plague the United States, worldwide racial, religious, and cultural bias, global warming, and finally-our planet's future and its place in the universe.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Biblios
frankfurt am main, hessen, Germany
AbeBooks seller since September 10, 2024
Shipping rates from Germany to U.S.A.
| Item | 25 to 45 business days | 8 to 14 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 8.32 | £ 15.64 |
Payment methods
Store description
We carry a wide selection of books from South Asia, United States, UK.
Specialty
new books imported from india, uk, usaSeller's business information
Readingos GmbH
Kaiserstraße 47
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 60329
Terms of sale
We ship from Frankfurt
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to Biblios, frankfurt am main, Germany, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.