Bernard Patten has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Neurology Rounds with the Maverick.
Neurology Rounds with the Maverick
Summary
In Neurology Rounds with the Maverick, clinical neurologist Dr. Bernard M. Patten recounts his most profound, entertaining, and uncommon experiences with patients throughout his 34-year medical career. Learn about the strange case of the teenage girl who got pulled out of class for medical treatment because she couldn’t stop laughing. Then consider the 14-year-old who faked grand mal seizures for more than a year as to get away from her sexually abusive father. Consider the awkward situation of the hairdresser who heard voices from God instructing her to stab her customers with her scissors or the well-documented phenomenon of patients (including Dr. Patten’s own mother) correctly predicting their own deaths. Listen to Dr. Patten’s encounters with artist George Rodrigue as he lost his memory and physicist Stephen Hawking when he was considering experimental ALS treatment. As well, enjoy learning about when Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich came to America to be treated for atrophy in his right hand and shipping magnate Aristotle Socrates Onassis’s consultations about Myasthenia Gravis. Neurology Rounds with the Maverick presents an authentic look inside some of the most complex, strange, and fascinating neurological cases of the last half-century of medicine. Listen it to appreciate the good, the bad, the terrible, and the densely human anecdotes that document the past and light the way for the future of medicine.
©2019 Bernard M. Patten (P)2019 Bernard M. Patten
The Great Cotzias
Summary
Dr. George Cotzias lived a large life. He stood over six feet tall; he drank Metaxa like milk; he smoked cigarettes as if eating candy. He bullied patients, sometimes looming over their wasted bodies. He had “a stare as strong as death”. His passion for women, his wife, and others was infamous. His voice boomed through the halls of the hospital where he was chief of physiology research. Cotzias also had a large ego which launched him into battles with the NIH, which persuaded him to try experiments never before done on patients. One such set of experiments discovered the treatment for Parkinson’s disease, for which Cotzias hoped to win the Nobel Prize. One of Cotzias’s colleagues wrote the story of this unknown famous man. The Great Cotzias: Discoverer of the Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease is Dr. Bernard Patten’s tribute to his colleague. Patten served as an intern to Dr. Cotzias one fate-filled summer, an interim in Patten’s career influencing him for the rest of his life. Patten has a near-photographic memory and had the foresight to take notes while working with Dr. Cotzias. The novelistic tone to this nonfiction account gives the feeling of being in the middle of meetings about diagnoses, of going on rounds with the doctors, of listening to harangues by Cotzias, of having arguments with the nurses, of being in a near meltdown of the local nuclear plant and other adventures. Even political ties to China come into the story. It seemed that Mao Tse Tung - whom Cotzias continually referred to as Mouse Tongue - had Parkinson’s, and the US was able to offer a treatment to Mao for certain considerations. Because of Dr. Cotzias’s attitude of “come hell or high water”, he forged on with his medical knowledge and intuition, stepping on feet, not toes, shouting his way to resolution, shoving his face into the faces of the moneymen, pushing into arguments about protocol. He stopped at nothing, and he found the treatment for Parkinson’s in the 1960s.
©2020 Bernard Patten (P)2020 Bernard Patten