Reviews for Youngest Science Notes of a Medicine Watcher

The average rating for Youngest Science Notes of a Medicine Watcher based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-10-29 00:00:00 Gary Gentry I like Thomas. He has some opinions, even strong ones, but he's nice about it & obviously ready to change his mind if new data comes in. His reminiscences are informative, occasionally funny, & always interesting. His experience in medicine & this book start with his father, a family physician in Flushing, NY (Queens) in the 1920s. He becomes a doctor in the early 1930s & all they could usually do was comfort patients until sulfa drugs came along later in that decade. His descriptions are great, but terribly sad. They're also an incredible reminder of how far we have come so fast. This is not quite the same as The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher or The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher since he starts out with chapters that stick to a single topic - his early life as a physician - but it does become a series of essays as it progresses like his others. That's fine. It's all interesting even when he gets too technical for me. That only happens in parts of the essays & they're quickly done, so I never get bogged down. He covers a lot of ground including some of his time in the military in WWII & as the head of various facilities. There are also essays on other topics such as why women should rule the world for a century, how he came to publish his essays & books, & other topics. Plenty here for everyone. I was left with a lot of questions. They're all due to my ignorance in his field. He wrote this in 1983 & I wonder how some of his observations & abandoned experiments turned out. If you know, please tell me in the comments! - Why does penicillin kill guinea pigs half the year & not the other half? At least, I think that's the conclusion he came to. - How is the fight against rheumatoid arthritis coming? Did his research into it lead anywhere? - How likely is his idea that there is one, basic underlying cause for all cancers? Highly recommended! I also recommend his other 2 books. They all have a lot of food for thought. I can see by other reviews that even doctors still like reading this. Yeah, it's that good.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-21 00:00:00 Tim Lee I didn't have access to the book, so I listened to this. A 5 Star rating is not enough to express the value of this book. It took me personally a good while to read, because I took this small book as a learning experience. Dr. Thomas covers his family biography of their interest in medicine, as well as his achievements and experiences on rounds during his residency and immersed time with research. What an amazing amount of information I gathered and learned. Every time I got to listen to this audiobook, I was fascinated by it not wanting it to end. This is one of the books that I will read and re-read again and again, because with repetition and practice comes expert learning. The evolution of medicine that was presented was so profound to make me want to reach for his other books and essays, and other nonfiction books as well.