The Medical Detectives
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This is a classic collection of 25 true narratives of medical investigative reporting by award-winning journalist Berton Roueche. Readers of "The New Yorker" may be familiar with the author's suspenseful tales of strange illnesses, rare diseases, poisons and parasites.
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The Deadly Dinner Party: and Other Medical Detective Stories Shares medical, medicine, nonfiction -
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease Shares medical, nonfiction, medicine -
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis Shares medical, medicine, nonfiction -
The Patient Paradox Shares medical, medicine, science
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