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by Earl J. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
PreTest is the closest you can get to seeing the USMLE Step 1 before you take it!
500 USMLE-type questions and answers!
"This book is a wonderful resource for second year medical students taking pathology as well as medical students in their clinical years. It is a good review and...
The Concussion Repair Manual
A Practical Guide to Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Concussion -- the biggest name in today's high-impact sports.
As more and more high profile athletes come forward to share their stories of invisible suffering after head injuries, we as a culture are finally acknowledging this silent epidemic.
The Concussion Repair Manual is written...
Old Red
Pioneering Medical Education in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Tucked away in a corner of the University of Texas Medical Branch campus stands a majestic relic of an era long past. Constructed of red pressed brick, sandstone, and ruddy Texas granite, the Ashbel Smith Building, fondly known as Old Red, represents a fascinating page in Galveston and Texas history....
by Richard Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Great Medical Mysteries is a hilarious catalogue of medical mysteries and trivia – medical mysteries of history, mysterious addictions and everyday medical mysteries are all posed and pondered with Richard Gordon’s famed wit. The result is a deeply humorous, often bawdy, novel that explores the...
Trusting Doctors
The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctors,...
The Laws of Medicine
Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.
Over...
by Dr. Ben Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Written by acclaimed integrative oncologist Ben Johnson, MD, DO, NMD, No Ma’am-ogram! Radical Rethink on Mammograms refutes the medical myths and fallacies at the root of today’s conventional breast health care protocols, offering readers safer solutions to breast cancer prevention, diagnosis,...
Offbeat Otolaryngology
What the Textbooks don't tell you
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The information you didn't learn in medical school!A marvelous and amusing read...memorable anecdotes...I defy you not to laugh out loud. --ENT NewsWant to get a step up on the competition? This is the book for young doctors trying to bluff their way into erudite otolaryngological circles by giving the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
From the much-referenced and highly acclaimed Textbooks of Military Medicine series, the Medical Aspects Of Biological Warfare (2007 Version) textbook reflects the critical threat posed by biological warfare and terrorism in a post 9-11 world. It addresses the weaponization of biological agents, categorizing...
What Doctors Feel
How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care
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Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments....
by Helen Webster
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Called out by a frightened country doctor in the dark night of a prairie winter in 1919 to assist with an emergency appendectomy, Dr. Robert Ross travels to an isolated farmhouse where he finds himself entangled in a tragedy. He is immediately caught up in an ethical dilemma where all of his life experiences,...
Normal at Any Cost
Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest toManipulate Height
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
A fascinating story of medical experimentation, parental love, and the extreme measures taken to make children fit within ?the norm.?
Most people rarely think about their height beyond a little wishing and hoping. But for the parents of children who are ridiculed by their peers for being extraordinarily...
Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now
Gaining the Upper Hand in Your Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The state of health care in this country is routinely discussed in the media, at the office, and around the kitchen table. Yet as consumers of medical care, Americans often blindly accept medical advice that may or may not be relevant or even appropriate. Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now is meant...
Routine Miracles
Personal Journeys of Patients and Doctors Discovering the Powers of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
“This book covers medical advances that would once have been called miracles but have now become routine. The patients’ stories within this book yield hope, optimism, and triumph. This is the best time ever to come out of medical school and training. This fact will inspire and uplift everyone...