I Really Didn't Want to Become a Doctor (eBook)

Tales and Musings from a Family Doc Retired After 50-Plus Years

Howie C. Wolf (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
88 Seiten
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6963-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is a story of becoming and being a family physician, now retired after nearly 54 years of practice. Examples of Dr. Howie Wolf’s challenges, joys, and humor are sprinkled throughout and included are his views on racism, medical malpractice, and health care reform.

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This book traces memoirs of a family doctor who shunned the notion of becoming a physician as he observed his family doctor father while growing up. To spend so many years in schoolonly to have meals, sleep, and vacations interrupted by needy patientsoffered no allure. Not until his third year of college did he make the career choice, and his tale traverses his experiences from college, medical school, internship, U.S. Navy, to practicing in Colorado. His story includes abundant patient anecdotes, plus his take on racism, medical malpractice, and health reform. Dr. Wolf's humanism is evident throughout, and is evidenced by the fact that the royalties from his book will go to a Boulder County low-income clinic he helped found in 1977.

Autor

Dr. Howie Wolf grew up in a small Iowa town, where his father was the only doctor. After graduating from the University of Iowa College of Medicine, he interned at the University of Texas Medical Branch Hospital in Galveston, TX, and then served two years in the US Navy. “Howie” then practiced more than 53 years in Colorado and is now retired, living in Boulder with his wife.

Inhalt

ForewordPrologueEarly YearsEducation: College & Medical SchoolInternshipUnited States NavyPrivate Practice Begins in Longmont Lafayette PracticeTeachingClinica CampesinaActivitiesExamining an Old Adage: Doctors Should Avoid LawyersFinal Chapter

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.8.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 19 Illustrations including: - 19 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
• Schlagworte: career in medicine • doctor in american mid-west • Family doctor • Health Care Reform • memoir of doctor
• ISBN-10: 0-7618-6963-8 / 0761869638
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-6963-4 / 9780761869634