Maneater: And Other True Stories of a Life in Infectious Diseases Audiobook (Free)
- Donna Rawlins
- 3 h 3 min
- Macmillan Audio
- 2003-03-01
Summary:
Maneater is a personal account by an expert who techniques her work like a forensic scientist or a case-hardened private eye. Dr. Pamela Nagami is normally a leading expert on infectious illnesses and her stories will shock, amaze, and warn readers.
The sufferers in Maneater are ordinary Americans. When Danielle Jordan innocently purchased a salad for lunchtime in Puerta Vallarta she experienced no idea she experienced just end up being the ‘web host’ for an organism that six years later would grow into a worm and burrow into her about Maneater: And Other True Stories of a Life in Infectious Illnesses brain.
Charlie Blair caught poultry pox, but he wasn’t a youngster, he was a grown-up, which common child years disease can attack a guy and ravage his body until he appears like a third-degree-burn victim.
A little insect bite on Allan Roth’s best foot made him a target for ‘flesh-eating strep.’ He shed his epidermis like a snake and a big area of tissue and skin was removed from his right thigh and lower abdomen.
Maneater will need readers on rounds with Dr. Nagami, where they will find out, from a safe distance, the actual diseases are, what it’s like to be a medical detective, and how it feels to make the medical and honest decisions that may mean the difference between existence and death.
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