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Vintage Secretions (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Publisher: Griffin Intellectual Property
Published: May 10 2026
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.14 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Vintage Secretions is a darkly funny, illustrated medical satire for medical professionals and other healthcare workers who understand that humor is often the only reasonable response to unreasonable things.
Blending de-identified clinical images with absurdly elegant prose, this collection treats respiratory secretions, mucus plugs, clots, and other unforgettable pulmonary offerings as if they were rare wines, gallery pieces, or luxury artifacts worthy of serious appraisal. Each specimen is described with exaggerated reverence through tasting notes, faux critical analysis, and deeply inappropriate sophistication.
Part art book, part inside joke, and part tribute to the strange physical realities of critical care, Vintage Secretions is written for nurses, physicians, respiratory therapists, trainees, and anyone who has ever stared into a suction canister and thought, against their better judgment, that is almost impressive.
This is not a book for the general public. It is a book for those who have worked in the ICU, cared for the critically ill, and learned that dark humor is not cruelty, but survival.
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