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The Uncertain Art
Thoughts on a Life in Medicine
2008
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The award-winning author of How We Die and The Art of Aging, venerated physician Sherwin B. Nuland has now written his most thoughtful and engaging book. The Uncertain Art is a superb collection of essays about the vital mix of expertise, intuition, sound judgement, and pure chance that play a part in a doctor's practice and life.

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Sherwin B. Nuland
Sherwin B. Nuland
Author · 14 books

Sherwin Nuland was an American surgeon and author who taught bioethics and medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. He was the author of The New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winning How We Die, and has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, Time, and the New York Review of Books. His NYTimes obit: http://nyti.ms/1kxNtQC

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