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Physical: An American Checkup
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Hardcover
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (December 27, 2005)
9780374232023 | details & prices | 272 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $24.00
About: The author, a hard-living, happily married, middle-aged American, gets a three-day 'executive checkup' at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality.
About: The author, a hard-living, happily married, middle-aged American, gets a three-day 'executive checkup' at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality.
Paperback
from Picador USA (December 12, 2006)
9780312426491 | details & prices | 255 pages | 5.75 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $22.00
About: A no-holds-barred look at the follies and foibles of the American health-care system describes the author's own encounter as a hard-living, middle-aged male with a three-day 'executive checkup' at the Mayo Clinic, his new understanding of his own mortality, the Bush administration's opposition to the stem-cell research that could save his daughter's life, and other political and medical issues.
About: A no-holds-barred look at the follies and foibles of the American health-care system describes the author's own encounter as a hard-living, middle-aged male with a three-day 'executive checkup' at the Mayo Clinic, his new understanding of his own mortality, the Bush administration's opposition to the stem-cell research that could save his daughter's life, and other political and medical issues.
CD/Spoken Word
Abridged edition from St Martins Pr (May 31, 2006)
9781593978112 | details & prices | List price $17.95
About: Physical is the story of a hard-living, happily married, middle-aged American (the author) who gets a three-day "executive checkup" at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality, not to mention glove-wearing doctors and the pair of dominatrix-esque technicians who supervise his stress test quite strictly.
About: Physical is the story of a hard-living, happily married, middle-aged American (the author) who gets a three-day "executive checkup" at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality, not to mention glove-wearing doctors and the pair of dominatrix-esque technicians who supervise his stress test quite strictly.
Abridged edition from St Martins Pr (January 18, 2006)
9781593978105 | details & prices | List price $24.95
With Patrick Frederic (other contributor) |
from St Martins Pr (December 27, 2005)
9781593978730 | details & prices | 5.50 × 5.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $29.95
About: A look at the American health-care system describes the author's encounter with a three-day 'executive checkup' at the Mayo Clinic, his new understanding of his own mortality, stem cell research, and other medical issues.
About: A look at the American health-care system describes the author's encounter with a three-day 'executive checkup' at the Mayo Clinic, his new understanding of his own mortality, stem cell research, and other medical issues.