Books by Robert Marion and Complete Book Reviews

Genetic Rounds: A Doctor's Memorable Encounters in the Field That Has Revolutionized Medicine
Genetic Rounds: A Doctor's Memorable Encounters in the Field That Has Revolutionized Medicine
Robert Marion, Author Kaplan $26.95 (278p) ISBN 978-1-60714-460-1
Although he's often uncomfortable about it, as a clinical geneticist, Marion (The Intern Blues ) examines his patients' genetic secrets—information they sometimes don't reveal even to close relatives—in order to help them...
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The Boy Who Felt No Pain: Tales from the Pediatric Ward
The Boy Who Felt No Pain: Tales from the Pediatric Ward
Robert Marion, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $17.95 (203p) ISBN 978-0-201-55049-8
A pediatric geneticist at Montefiore Hospital in New York City, Marion has intimate knowledge of caring for children with congenital malformations. In this selection of striking cases encountered in his career, he emphasizes the resilience of the...
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The Boy Who Felt No Pain
The Boy Who Felt No Pain
Robert Marion, Author Fawcett Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-22038-2
Pediatric geneticist Marion presents 14 ``moving and inspiring accounts'' of children with congenital malformations. ``He emphasizes the resilience of the human spirit . . . and provides humbling, as well as learning, experiences for medical...
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The Intern Blues: The Private Ordeals of Three Young Doctors
The Intern Blues: The Private Ordeals of Three Young Doctors
Robert Marion, Author William Morrow & Company $0 (352p) ISBN 978-0-688-06886-8
A New York pediatric geneticist, Marion ( Born Too Soon ) bases this thought-provoking, informative account of internship on diaries kept by three pediatric interns, two men and a woman, whose adviser he was at an unidentified hospital. They recall...
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Learning to Play God: The Coming of Age of a Young Doctor
Learning to Play God: The Coming of Age of a Young Doctor
Robert Marion, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $18.95 (267p) ISBN 978-0-201-57720-4
The frustration, anger and sheer exhaustion pervading the author's medical education from 1973 to 1981 have not diminished with the passing of time, as Marion ( The Boy Who Felt No Pain ) makes amply clear in this reasoned, vivid recollection....
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Was George Washington Really the Father of Our Country?: A Clinical Geneticist Looks at World History
Was George Washington Really the Father of Our Country?: A Clinical Geneticist Looks at World History
Robert Marion, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $22.9 (206p) ISBN 978-0-201-62255-3
John F. Kennedy conquered Addison's disease--an adrenal disorder which caused weakness, lethargy, bouts of vomiting and prostration--by taking cortisone daily, starting around 1950. Geneticist-physician Marion ( The Boy Who Felt No Pain ) theorizes...
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