Writing your master's thesis : from A to Zen / Lynn P. Nygaard

"First published 2017."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-197) and index

Imagine that you are an orthopaedist. For years you've specialized in setting bones, coaxing them to grow the right way after an injury, secure in your knowledge of what must be done to help the patient. And then one day, you break your ankle. The first thing you discover is that breaking your ankle hurts. So much that you do all the wrong things - neglect the ice and put weight on it before you're ready, all the while, cursing up a storm as if you were the first person in the world to experience this particular pain. But then you pull yourself together, remember your training, and do what needs to be done to fix the break. You get help, even though it galls you to have to rely on others to do alternating between the curious intellectural observation of the expert ('ah, yes, we are now entering the phase of stiffness and itching') and the gloomy self-pity of the patient ('This is no fun at all. What if my ankle never gets better?'). And occasionally you have flashes of insight: you begin to understand how being a patient can make you a better doctor, and being doctor can make you a better patient. [Provided by the publisher].