Download or read book White Coat Tales written by Robert B. Taylor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of intriguing stories offers profound insights into medical history. It highlights what all health professionals should know about the career path they have chosen. Each chapter presents a number of fascinating tales of legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, insightful clinical sayings, famous persons and their illnesses, and epic blunders made by physicians and scientists. The book relates the stories in history to what clinicians do in practice today and is ideal reading for physicians, residents, medical students and all clinicians.