Neurology Rounds with the Maverick · Adventures with Patients from the Golden Age of Medicine by Patten, Bernard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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General Conversation with the Reader About the Stories ATTENTION: Why You Should Read This Book Record One: Adventures and Misadventures in the Golden Age of Medicine

Tableau One

The Kid Who Couldn’t Stop Laughing and the Artist Who Was Losing His Mind

Tableau Two:

The Old Lady Who Needed a Hug

Tableau Three:

Two Very Sick People and One Not-as-Sick Administrator

Tableau Four:

A Grandmother Who Went Into a Coma While Playing Bridge and a Socialite Who is Proud of the Disease She Had

Tableau Five:

Jackson G. Smith Gets Revenge on His Insurance Company and Stephen Hawking Decides He Doesn’t Want to be Treated for His Condition

Tableau Six:

The Kid from Canada Who Couldn’t Walk

Tableau Seven:

Medical Neurology at the National Institutes of Health and the Discovery of an Effective Treatment for Myasthenia Gravis

Tableau Eight:

Aristotle Socrates Onassis Dies of Myasthenia Gravis, and a Chauffeur Gets Kicked in the Pants in Portugal

Tableau Nine:

The Belgian Family Who Suffered Because They Misunderstood French in French Polynesia

Tableau Ten:

The Engineer Who Didn’t Want to Pay His Bill

Tableau Eleven:

The Man from Saudi Arabia Who Wanted to Know Why He Had a Stroke

Tableau Twelve:

Eulogy to Bill

Tableau Thirteen:

Patients Who Were Not My Patients but Still Interesting

Tableau Fourteen:

Ward Service at the Neurological Institute of New York

Tableau Fifteen:

Organic Disease Simulating Mental Illness

Tableau Sixteen:

Psychiatric Conditions Simulating Neurological Conditions

Tableau Seventeen:

The Truly Psychotic are Different from You and Me

Tableau Eighteen:

Neurosis Simulating Neurological Disease

Tableau Nineteen:

The Young Man Who Arrived in the ER in Coma and the Electrical Engineer Who Couldn’t Remember He Ate Dinner

Tableau Twenty:

The Man Who Pissed in His Pants and Didn’t Care

Tableau Twenty-One:

A True Horse Story

Tableau Twenty-Two:

The Marvelous Effect of Placebos

Tableau Twenty-Three:

Mistakes Were Made

Tableau Twenty-Four:

Patients Predict Their Own Death

Tableau Twenty-Five:

Coma Due to Kidney Failure?

Tableau Twenty-Six:

Another Case of Cerebral Palsy?

Tableau Twenty-Seven:

The Jewish Housewife Who Was Speeding

Record Two: Medical Malpractice (Med-Mal) and Trials of an Expert Witness

Tableau Twenty-Eight:

Malpractice Cases against Me

Tableau Twenty-Nine:

Trials of an Expert Witness

Record Three: Breast Implants—How You Can Be Tough without a Gun

Tableau Thirty:

The Breast Implant Adventure—the Beginning

Tableau Thirty-One:

Breast Implant Adventure—the Middle

Tableau Thirty-Two:

Breast Implant Adventure—the End

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