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Memory lessons a doctor's story

A respected geriatrician examines the social and medical challenges of aging as experienced firsthand through the decline of his elderly father, a process throughout which the author struggled with feelings of helplessness in spite of his medical knowledge.

Main Author: Winakur, Jerald.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Hyperion, c 2009.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Winakur, Jerald.
Aging parents > Care.
Adult children of aging parents > United States.
Caregivers.
Geriatricians > United States > Biography.
Geriatrics
Summary: A respected geriatrician examines the social and medical challenges of aging as experienced firsthand through the decline of his elderly father, a process throughout which the author struggled with feelings of helplessness in spite of his medical knowledge.
Physical Description: 287 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9781401303020
1401303021
Author Notes: Jerry Winakur has practiced internal and geriatric medicine in San Antonio, Texas, for over thirty years. An Associate Faculty Member of Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, he also lectures in Humanities at the University of Texas and Trinity University in San Antonia. He lives with his wife, the poet Lee Robinson, in Comfort, Texas.

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