A View From The Inside, by Augustine Dr. Perrotta
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A View From The Inside, by Augustine Dr. Perrotta
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Doctor Perrotta gives us an insider's view of public personalities and private figures from a unique medical perspective and his connection to them. He dispels myths, urban legends and junk science with authoritative facts and personal insights. Ranging from birth to bereavement, this book is an upbeat and sometimes startling account of the human condition treated with sensitivity and humor.
A View From The Inside, by Augustine Dr. Perrotta - Amazon Sales Rank: #1358460 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .52" w x 5.98" l, .74 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 246 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A masterful series of stories by a great story teller By Richard Scott First things. Most medical publications require conflict of interest. I am not paid, cajoled and bought my own copy from Amazon.Dr. Perrotta and I have, however, been friends for decades. I started my internship and spent time with him, not long after he entered the private practice of hematology- oncology. He taught me much and rewarded me as I entered the field of orthopedic surgery by noting he thought I was smart enough to be an internist. During medical,school I read much medicine, from Lewis Thomas to Osler so it was flattery. He failed to understand that orthopedics in the seventies was entering s new era so exciting that it seemed to attract smart energized physicians, much as internal medicine had when treatment had moved into scientific pharmacology.Our backgrounds are different. Both from the East Coast, I from generating of New Englanders trained at a college in Rhode Island founded by Baptists and directly descended from Roger Williams. He from New York, trained for years at Jesuit schools and named after St Augustine, although a good Jesuit traces his intellectual curiosity to Aristotle. We share one thing, our love for Bow Ties. I read a version of the chapter on bow ties, but believe the wearers aside from being individualists and eccentric, have no fear of speaking out. Has made for lively discussions often without resolution. He did ask me to write a review. I have not shared this with him/ Memoirs or visitations to the past are increasing daily. Many have insights to share.A Raconteur, Augustine Perrotta honed the short chapters in dialogues with friends, patients, and camp followers. As a raconteur the dialogues were not discussions but displays of knowledge, insight and opinions to be received by the listener. The book itself demonstrates his pedagogical interest, for what were short narratives have often been turned into longer essays, replete with links to current literature.Curiosity is a primary force driving Augie, making his papers interesting, if only to evidence his consuming interest in the causes, meaning, and ethical concepts of many of the issues discussed. I love to use the word,"interesting" as it piques his ire, as he will want a valid or intelligent explanation of why some subject is interesting, which is that it piques our curious nature in life.The explanation of why the little book of memoirs was written with the raconteur's penchant for humor. He likes jokes and worked to learn to deliver them, which he loves to do. His chapter on humor has many jokes, reasons for jokes, and ways to learn best how to tell them. Of equal,importance is the use of humor and jokes in treating patients with severe disease. Laughter is often the best medicine, if in some cases the only medicine.Much of the book has sections that display his love of Osteopathic medicine, patients and his Jesuit background. My Jesuit friends in the distant past were highly educated scholars when I was in graduate school in the humanities.Developing friendship with Jesuit sympathizers educated we who are wasps and educated from youth in the horrors of the inquisition to understand the modern Jesuits.We both share delight in opera, his love rooted n Verdi and Italian operas, mine in less delightful more modern compositions, from Britten on. Papers on his formative education, entry in to the Operatic world of the mid twentieth century are fun reads.His chapter on his interview and experiences in his first years in Chicago mirrors many of these aspects. It reaffirms his strict adherence to the moral values taught at Fordham.. His research into the history, personal as well as general, and into the personality of bow tie wearers has been a bond. These ties have gained wider acceptance now and watching burly NFL linemen sporting ties is rewarding. My sons and grandchildren all sport bow ties.We also share a love of advancements in medicine especially those of the role of genetics, a wildly evolving sub specialty. Angie's chapter on genetics is thorough and useful for the interested lay person as well as the physician trying to understand the current state, so different from that when we were students. I think the book is intended for laity to be able to explain a bit what medical care is. Some of the discussions are difficult, but the personal,struggles and approach to patients with disease is far more meaningful, particularly to a lay person trying to fathom an idiosyncratic Osteopathic hematologist.I enjoyed a grand rounds where an elderly man in the back spoke up to challenge the diagnosis of the proud visiting dignitary. And challenge he did. We who attend or attended grand rounds are pleased to note in an academic center other old folks can sit and learn and share their knowledge. More importantly, challenging the pro for a staged presentations is fun to realize. I, as an aging orthopedist, was faced with a young lady in clinic in the Bhutan while I was on an orthopedic overseas mission, with a painless gangrenous toe. I was unaware of etiology, when my clinic assistant said, it's leprosy. I believed leprosy had been eliminated. My clinic friend noted he had served at the leper hospital which closed a few years before. Knowing that experienced individuals may aid in decision making if they speak up and they can help us all. Open ears are better than closed minds.Long a stalwart leader in the right of life movement, as well as the inalienable right to follow ones own faith leads Augie. He describes a heart rending moment while he attended a young patient while in fellowship. The child had a bleeding diathesis, a result of diphtheria run rampant in an unvaccinated child. Augie continued to minister to Jehovahs Witnesses throughout his career and he and I shared caring for patients who refused transfusion.Shared decision making and the ethical and moral issues involved are complex and well reviewed here. We may disagree with the author on some of the issues, but all readers will profit from the discussion.I encourage you to read this memoir. Much is fun and suitable for reading when time is short. Others are so interesting to drive one to rest idly the topics or strive on. Excelsior! I cannot wait to Siddhartha”s upcoming book on genetics.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Fun,entertaining,, educational, informative By Irwin Schiller What a literary find! I was entertained, informed and educated. The well written stories were intriguing and fast paced. I have rarely been so drawn into a book and fell I am better because I read these stories. The way they were written and intertwined with pracitical and medical information is unique. I am a history buff but learned stories I had not previously known. I am a physician but learned medical information I had forgotten or had never known. All this in the context af stories makes them a permanent part of my knowledge.I have sent copies to medical and literary friends.I really enjoyed and was enriched by these well crafted tales.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Fun Read of Some Complex Medical Problems By EOC The most interesting part of Dr. Perrotta's book were the personal insights he provided of the medical problems of patients he treated and celebrities that had diseases in his area of expertise. His chapter on "Humor as Medicine" was particularly entertaining and resulted in more than one laugh out loud. He is very adept at explaining medical issues in laymen's terms that are easier to understand.
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