Playing the ponies and other medical mysteries solved / Stuart B. Mushlin, MD, FACP.

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press Medicine, [2017]

xi, 174 pages ; 22 cm

Back pain -- It's a small world -- Everything really can go wrong in the hospital -- Friday night at five -- Learning from the patient -- Explosive illnesses do not respond to homeopathy -- Sometimes, all we get is close -- Thinking can sometimes make a difference -- The CPC -- Let the facts speak for themselves -- Cough -- Great imitators, part 1 -- Great imitators, part 2 -- Moonlighting -- Playing the ponies -- Who's the greatest of them all? -- Making a list and checking it twice -- POEMS -- Iron man -- An octopus pot, voodoo, and Chang and Eng.