Bloodletting to Binary

DOC, E. B. McKee's first book, introduced a reluctant medical student who earns his degree in 1961 from Ireland's prestigious Royal College of Surgeons. Bloodletting to Binary rejoins McKee after graduation from joining the United States Air Force an positions as medical officer and flight surgeon, to his decision in 1970 to open a private practice in Rhode Island, now a husband with a wife, three children, and minimal funds for the new venture.Vignettes of patients are memorable, often humorous: his brush with a mafia don, the wily manipulations of an addict seeking drugs, a grief-stricken wife whose husband's death precipitates her own.McKee's career spans an era of medicine transition, often pivitol: from leeches and bloodletting to computer-driven diagnostics, DNA testing and robotic surgery. With Rhode Island's South County Hospital as a microcosm, he describes the hospital's bare-bone beginnings: its rudimentary x-ray capability, the borrowed electrocardiogram machine, limited lab services, and the hospital's growth from a converted home to the gleaming campus it occupies today.Medical politics are on display too: watch a cadre of entrenched, older physicians circle to protect the status-quo, their prerogatives and to battle encroaching specialization. Patient resist changes as well, fiercely loyal to the doctor who delivered their babies, performed their surgeries, and mended their children's broken bones.Bloodletting to Binary is a behind-the-scenes story of a physician's medical journey and provides a rare snapshot of a transformational era in American medicine.

• | Author: E. B. McKee
• | Publisher: EBook Bakery
• | Publication Date: Sep 23, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 226 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1938517636
• | ISBN-13: 9781938517631