The Road Taken.The Road Taken Norman Makous, M.D. Towpath Publications P.O. Box 43522, Philadelphia, PA 19106 0977668606 $15.95 www.towpathbooks.com The Road Taken: My Life And Times is the memoir of a highly trained medical doctor, and receiver of the distinguished achievement award from the American Heart Association American Heart Association (AHA), n.pr a national voluntary health agency that has the goal of increasing public and medical awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and thereby reducing the number of associated deaths and disabilities. . His story spans the Great Depression, World War II, and a successful career during the twentieth century; he witnessed firsthand first·hand adj. Received from the original source: firsthand information. first medicine's great transformations as pre-war technology became supplanted by post-war technology. And with great pain, he also witnessed the death of his wife from emphysema emphysema (ĕmfĭsē`mə), pathological or physiological enlargement or overdistention of the air sacs of the lungs. A major cause of pulmonary insufficiency in chronic cigarette smokers, emphysema is a progressive disease that commonly , as some medical conditions See carpal tunnel syndrome, computer vision syndrome, dry eyes and deep vein thrombosis. remain beyond the limits of modern science to treat. A candid, thoughtful, and reflective memoir. |
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