Med School: A Collection Of Stories About Medical School, 1951-1955 - Softcover

Meador, Clifton K., M.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1577363116 ISBN 13: 9781577363118

Publisher: Hillsboro Pr, 2003

Synopsis

Fifty years before Resident Life became a reality television show on The Learning Channel, Clifton Meador lived, breathed, and sometimes slept the life of a med student at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Meador recalls those days in a fascinating and entertaining memoir, packed with stories, vignettes, and experiences that capture a time and place gone by. Med School celebrates the joy of learning, the excitement of medical discovery, and the adverture of caring for patients in a setting that helped shape modern medicine. While Med School will resonate with medical practitioners, its sheer charm will appeal to anyone who enjoys a wonderfully told story.

About this title

About the Author:

Clifton K. Meador graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1955, sharing the Founder's Medal for top scholastic honors with a classmate, Vernon Reynolds. Dr. Tinsley Harrison, then-outgoing chairman of medicine at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, recruited him to the faculty in Birmingham. Dr. Meador directed the N.I.H. Clinical Research Center at the university for six years, advanced to professor of medicine, and served as dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama in Birmingham from 1968 to 1973.

In 1973 Dr. Meador returned to Vanderbilt to join the full-time faculty as professor of medicine and to establish the Vanderbilt teaching service in medicine at Saint Thomas Hospital. Dr. Meador also served as chief medical officer of the hospital until 1998, when he became the executive director of the newly formed Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. He is now professor of medicine at both medical schools and continues to direct the programs of the alliance.

Dr. Meador has published extensively in the medical literature; he is perhaps best known for "The Art and Science of Nondisease" and "The Last Well Person," both published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and "A Lament for Invalids," published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The articles are satiric treatments of the excesses of medical practice. He is the author of seven books, including the bestselling medical book, A Little Book of Doctors' Rules.

Dr. Meador lives in Nashville with his wife, Kathleen. He has seven children and seven grandchildren.

Review:

Clifton Meador has written a poignant, funny, authentic account—a "must read" for doctors of all ages. -- Steve Bergman, M.D., (a.k.a. Samuel Shem), Author of House of God and Mount Misery

If you went to med school and you want some real nostalgic belly laughs, this is the book for you. -- George Lundberg, M.D., Former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association

Students of all kinds will see themselves...on these pages. And they will laugh and laugh, and learn and learn. -- Steven G. Gabbe, M.D., Dean, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

About this edition

• Publisher: Hillsboro Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1577363116
• ISBN 13: 9781577363118
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192