Small : Life and Death on the Front Lines of Pediatric Surgery (Hardcover)

from palmaceae

I thoroughly enjoyed Small. Musemeche does a fabulous job introducing the reader to the world of pediatric surgery and all the complications of working on a child, who contrary to popular belief, is not a miniature adult. My favorite part was reading about all the advances in biomedical engineeri...

from kidzdoc

Dr. Catherine Musemeche is a pediatric surgeon who has been in practice for nearly a quarter of a century after the completion of her rigorous training, and she effectively combines her professional experiences, personal interests, and excellent writing skills in this superb book. In it she discu...

from hemlokgang

From the perspective a a lay person who has long been fascinated by all things medical, this was an absolutely fascinating read. I have taken for granted the notion of the existence of such a thing as a pediatric surgeon, yet had no idea that it is a relatively recent development, in fact, still ...

from ahegge

I'm a medical student and was happy to receive this book through the early reviewers program just as I was starting a month-long rotation in the neonatal intensive care unit. I found the first few chapters on the history of pediatric surgery, ECMO, and TPN to be fascinating. It was really interes...

from AnneWK

This is a readable history of the birth and growth of pediatric surgery, from the beginning when it was wrongly assumed that babies were simply smaller adults, through the development of specific instruments for treating children. The author is a pediatric surgeon who also describes the afflictio...