Book chapter
How Medical History Helped Me (Almost) Love a V.A. Hospital
Clio in the Clinic
18 Apr 2005
Abstract
In this essay, I shall try to show how working as a house officer, then junior attending physician, on the Medical College of Pennsylvania service at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Philadelphia (hereafter ‘the V.A.’) in the 1970s helped nurture my then budding infatuation with medical history, and how an appreciation of history helped accommodate to the vagaries of the V.A. Unflattering observations the V.A. will necessarily appear, so I need to declare early on that of my most gratifying and meaningful medical work occurred By ‘meaningful,’ I simply refer to efforts that helped patients to recover or to avoid
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- Title
- How Medical History Helped Me (Almost) Love a V.A. Hospital
- Creators
- STEVEN J. Peitzman
- Contributors
- Jacalyn Duffin (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Clio in the Clinic
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- MD (Doctor of Medicine) Program
- Other Identifier
- 991019173883404721