{"product_id":"9780228017585-golds-rounds","title":"Gold’s Rounds","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMedicine, McGill, and Growing Up Jewish in Montreal. \u003cp\u003eDr Phil Gold recounts a bygone era of the life of Jewish immigrants to Montreal on the Main, his marriage to the love of his life, studying with Sir Arnold Burgen, and the discovery of CEA, carcinoembryonic antigen. By turns heartrending, funny, and wise, \u003ci\u003eGold’s Rounds\u003c\/i\u003e will be cherished by medical professionals and general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eGrowing up on St Lawrence Boulevard, Phil Gold never aspired to be a doctor. But working as an encyclopedia salesman, a bottle washer at Molson, and a fur-coat schlepper in textile factories helped him realize and embrace his parents’ desire for him to follow that path.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking back at his short wander from the Main to nearby McGill University and the Montreal General Hospital, Gold coins a new word, \u003ci\u003efortunome\u003c\/i\u003e, to evoke his sense of a lucky life: “Our genome comes from our parents; our environment or epigenome shapes the expression of who we are; but without a good \u003ci\u003efortunome\u003c\/i\u003e, life’s odds turn against us.” A born storyteller, Gold recounts the sights and sounds of a bygone era – horse-drawn milk carts, Yiddish neighbourhoods full of Holocaust survivors, furniture chopped up to keep the home fires burning, sacks of grain lugged off ships in the harbour, antisemitism and ethnic street-fighting, the padlocked doors of the Red Scare, his father’s first car. Gold tells the story of dating and marrying the love of his life, Evelyn, studying under the brilliant Sir Arnold Burgen, and his discovery of CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen) in a clear, fast-moving narrative that grips and fascinates. \u003ci\u003eGold’s Rounds\u003c\/i\u003e also includes unforgettable stories from six decades of treating patients at the General, scenes from the founding of the famous Goodman Cancer Institute, and reflections on the physician's role and the meaning of a good death. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns funny, wise, and heartrending, Gold’s memoir of a life well lived will be cherished by both medical professionals and general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40867401203809,"sku":"9780228017585","price":47.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/15ae87e9655857963e6b9a33fbf9a10b.png?v=1686768383","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780228017585-golds-rounds","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}