Under My Skin: A Dermatologist Looks at His Profession and His Patients
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (986 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1937600017 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 226 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Alan Rockoff offers in Under My Skin a witty take on skin medicine, a field some people think is as superficial as the organ it works with. Under My Skin presents a practicing dermatologist's sensitive and humorous reflections on medical practice, health care, bureaucrats, and the very different ways doctors and their patients look at health and disease. Whether you've been a health professional or ever consulted one - or if you've worked in most any profession - you will relate to Rockoff's tales of workplace joys and follies. With 30 years of medical practice under his belt, Roc
"Wry, Wise, Humble: A Keeper" according to DJE. Under My Skin: A dermatologist looks at his profession and his patients joins a small, but growing, collections of memoirs by dermatologists. These include:* Room for Examination by James Channing Shaw* The Skin Around Me: Adventures in Dermatology by Walter B. Shelley* As I Live and Breath by Jamie Weisman* Autopsy of War: A Personal History by John A. Parrish (which I have not yet read).To this list one must now add Alan Rockoff's Under My Skin, a wise, humble, wryly funny collection of essays and columns mostly written for "Skin and Allerg. James Herriot for the twenty first centruy Charm, with and a gently humorous look at the human condition from the kind of empathetic, competent physician we all hope to find. In the style of James Herriot, but from a people doctor.