From Voodoo to Viagra: The Magic of Medicine: 37 Uplifting Essays from a Doctor's Bag of Tricks

Book Description
The doctor who dispensed the invaluable advice KILL AS FEW PATIENTS AS POSSIBLE is at it again with a collection of waggish musings on everything from Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut to voodoo, ballerinas, and Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Dr. Oscar London's FROM VOODOO TO VIAGRA pokes fun at the serious and sometimes outrageous world of medicine, from the ability of doctors to work in the face of disagreeable smells, to the surgeon who uses a scalpel to excise fat from the "B" in his BLT. No one in the medical community is safe from Dr. London's fine-tuned wit. Whether you're a 27-year veteran of County General, a newly graduated resident, or a patient of any age-these 37 keenly wrought essays are the perfect cure for a gloomy mood, and storytelling at its finest.


About the Author
OSCAR LONDON is the pseudonym of an internist practicing in Berkeley, California. His humorous essays have appeared in The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Focus Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times, and he is a regular online columnist at HealthCentral.net.


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From Hugh Hefner and Las Vegas to prima ballerinas, voodoo encounters, and Krispy Kreme doughnuts -- Oscar London, M.D., W.B.D. (World's Best Doctor), has an opinion on just about everything and he isn't afraid to tell you what it is. In this fourth collection of his wickedly comic reflections, Dr. London pokes fun at the serious and sometimes outrageous world of doctors and their patients. Read in moderation -- these 37 essays are highly addictive.


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