Pediatrics Around the Block by Stan L. Block, MD, FAAP
This book is a combination autobiography and medical text. Dr. Block shares his career as a general pediatrician in rural Kentucky, highlighting specific cases and difficult diagnoses, tips for practicing pediatricians (especially younger ones who may not have seen several vaccine-preventable diseases), and his experience running vaccine clinical trials and participating in expert groups to inform those trials.
Dr. Block’s experience is unique because he was not located in an academic medical center. However, his practice had clinical trials staff, and his patients benefited from participating in early vaccine trials. Dr. Block also includes many images to guide clinicians in diagnoses, and he discusses aspects of practicing medicine in a rural community where routine supports in large academic settings are not necessarily available and everyone in town knows you’re the local pediatrician, stopping you in various places for “drive-by consults.”
This book will be a great addition to the library of medical students and young physicians, especially those who may be considering whether to practice medicine in a rural part of the country. It is abundantly clear that Dr. Block cherished his community of families and patients while also carving out an academic niche that benefited his patients and created a multi-dimensional career that fulfilled him.
Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain
This quick-read book offers a unique perspective on the life of Mary Mallon, more famously known as Typhoid Mary, as the renowned chef Anthony Bourdain revisits Mary’s experience from the point of view of a chef, not a scientist or public health official. Bourdain discusses Mary’s interactions with George Soper, a sanitation engineer who tied several typhoid outbreaks to Mary, and he also describes the “foodie scene” at the time, hypothesizing that Mary was a talented cook based on her resume of fairly continuous work in the homes of well-to-do families and the types of menus and skills that would have likely been necessary during her time.
Pediatrics Around the Block by Stan L. Block, MD, FAAP
This book is a combination autobiography and medical text. Dr. Block shares his career as a general pediatrician in rural Kentucky, highlighting specific cases and difficult diagnoses, tips for practicing pediatricians (especially younger ones who may not have seen several vaccine-preventable diseases), and his experience running vaccine clinical trials and participating in expert groups to inform those trials.
Dr. Block’s experience is unique because he was not located in an academic medical center. However, his practice had clinical trials staff, and his patients benefited from participating in early vaccine trials. Dr. Block also includes many images to guide clinicians in diagnoses, and he discusses aspects of practicing medicine in a rural community where routine supports in large academic settings are not necessarily available and everyone in town knows you’re the local pediatrician, stopping you in various places for “drive-by consults.”
This book will be a great addition to the library of medical students and young physicians, especially those who may be considering whether to practice medicine in a rural part of the country. It is abundantly clear that Dr. Block cherished his community of families and patients while also carving out an academic niche that benefited his patients and created a multi-dimensional career that fulfilled him.
Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain
This quick-read book offers a unique perspective on the life of Mary Mallon, more famously known as Typhoid Mary, as the renowned chef Anthony Bourdain revisits Mary’s experience from the point of view of a chef, not a scientist or public health official. Bourdain discusses Mary’s interactions with George Soper, a sanitation engineer who tied several typhoid outbreaks to Mary, and he also describes the “foodie scene” at the time, hypothesizing that Mary was a talented cook based on her resume of fairly continuous work in the homes of well-to-do families and the types of menus and skills that would have likely been necessary during her time.