Medicynical

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. General Medicine

   • Volker Lange

   Pages 1-8

3. Anesthesiology

   • Volker Lange

   Pages 9-13

4. Surgery

   • Volker Lange

   Pages 15-29

5. Minimal Invasive Surgery

   • Volker Lange

   Pages 31-47

6. Dermatology

   • Volker Lange

   Pages 49-55

7. Endoscopy

   • Volker Lange

   Pages 57-95

8. Ent

   • Volker Lange

   Pages 97-102

9. Internal Medicine

   • Volker Lange

   Pages 103-114

10. Neurosurgery

    • Volker Lange

    Pages 115-125

11. Neurology

    • Volker Lange

    Pages 127-128

12. Emergency Medicine

    • Volker Lange

    Pages 129-133

13. Ophthalmology

    • Volker Lange

    Pages 134-140

14. Plastic Surgery

    • Volker Lange

    Pages 141-144

15. Proctology

    • Volker Lange

    Pages 145-157

16. Psychiatry

    • Volker Lange

    Pages 158-166

17. Radiology

    • Volker Lange

    Pages 167-173

18. Sexual Medicine

    • Volker Lange

    Pages 175-180

19. Traumatology

    • Volker Lange

    Pages 181-188

20. Urology

    • Volker Lange

    Pages 189-193

Do cartoons that should speak to the observer flexible endoscope becomes a snake, 'Nessie' swims in themselves without using words require a foreword? the disinfection basin, and Laokoon and sons fight against Do Volker Lange's characteristic drawings, seen at least an endoscope. Seen from Lange's perspective, concepts once by almost everyone involved with medicine, need such as the drawer phenomenon, an onychomycosis, description? and the appendix appear in unique, new light. Does this book render more than a reason to laugh, Lange's cartoons depict the grotesque, the mysterious, more than a moment of 'aha'-experience, more than a and the fantastic: patient and physician drowning in fleeting instant of self-recognition? Do these cartoons liquor during lumbal puncture, a patient actually convey more than ideas that may initially appear even coughing out his lungs, and a neurosurgeon, who finds absurd or bizarre? emptiness when changing his patient's dressings, these Volker Lange has proven in previously published are moments of enlightenment that free us from the bonds material that he knows how to disclose the perhaps of a strictly scientific medicine fixed upon reality. Lange's intentionally overlooked parts of the medical profession. book is a treasure chest of such surrealistic surprises. Here sideswipes against both physicians' vanity and the With a few exceptions, Lange reveals his ideas using weight of the medical industry unmask much more than graphic expression only.

• Trauma
• dermatology
• emergency medicine
• endoscopy
• general medicine
• internal medicine
• medicine
• neurology
• neurosurgery
• ophthalmology
• plastic surgery
• psychiatry
• radiology
• surgery
• urology

• Abteilung Chirurgie, Schlosspark-Klinik, Berlin, Germany

  Volker Lange

 Professor Lange is the head physician for the Surgery Department, Schlosspark Clinic, Berlin, Medical School Hospital of the Charité, who became known as a cartoonist for his numerous caricatures in various medical journals (e.g., Deutsches Arzteblatt), his books and calendars.

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