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Med School Confidential
A Complete Guide to the Medical School Experience: By Students, for Students
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Med School Confidential from Robert H. Miller and Daniel M. Bissell uses the same chronological format and mentor-based system that have made Law School Confidential and Business School Confidential such treasured and popular guides. It takes the reader step-by-step through the entire med school process--from...
Medicine for the Outdoors E-Book
The Essential Guide to Emergency Medical Procedures and First Aid
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Named a top 10 medical title in 2009 by the Wall Street Journal.
Since 1986, Medicine for the Outdoors has been hailed as the definitive take-along manual on the subject. Packed with step-by-step instructions, how-to explanations, and practical approaches to outdoor and wilderness emergencies,...
Chekhov's Doctors
A Collection Of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
In his brief but distinguished life, Anton Chekhov was a doctor, a documentary essayist, an admired dramatist, and a humanitarian. He remains a nineteenth-century Russian literary giant whose prose continues to offer moral insight and to resonate with readers across the world.
Chekhov experienced...
The Treatment Trap
How the Overuse of Medical Care is Wrecking Your Health and What You Can Do to Prevent It
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the national debate. Taking advantage of Rosemary Gibson's knowledge gleaned from extended experience in the field of medical care and Janardan Singh's similar...
Flies in the Ointment
Medical Quacks, Quirks and Oddities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
After their successful books What Killed Jane Austen? and How Isaac Newton Lost his Marbles, Dr Leavesley and Dr Biro turn their attention once again to a new collection of medical mysteries and marvels. Written with Leavesley and Biro's clinical flair and knack for diagnosing the truth, Flies in...
Pilgrimage, Politics, and Pestilence
The Haj from the Indian Subcontinent, 1860–1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
The epicentre of the Muslim universe, Mecca attracts hundreds of thousands of believers every year. Pilgrimage, Politics, and Pestilence studies the organization and meanings of the Haj from India during colonial times and analyses it from political, commercial, and medical perspectives between 1860,...
Seeking the Cure
A History of Medicine in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician
Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow’s Seeking the Cure, there have been no modern works, either...
The Cholera Years
The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly...
Breathing Race into the Machine
The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device—the spirometer—to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared...
by Old Hippie
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
You have to hand it to the U.S. Government. Without the money, might, and monotony of this monolith, it would have been impossible to suppress and distort the truth about cannabis – a plant used beneficially by humans for the last 5,000 to 10,000 years.
But that’s in the past, because...
by Dr Mukesh Chauhan
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
MC-Theory or M-Theory (after author’s name) is a new theory which explains the missing dimensions of Origin of Life on Earth. It gives a practical reality to numerous theories by eminent scientists which are mostly mathematical calculations from Einstein to Stephen Hawking. Author’s theory helps...
Adventures of a Female Medical Detective
In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In 1974, a young doctor arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one goal in mind: to help eradicate smallpox. The only woman physician in her class in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a two-year epidemiology training program, Mary Guinan soon was selected to join India’s...
Best Clinical Guide for Your Family and Your Doctor
The Helper in Critical Health Situations
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
This is a quick guide to help for medical and non-medical personnel at the point of need in hospitals, clinics, and home settings. It has clinical case scenarios, questions, and answers. It includes a plan of action based on differential diagnoses at the point of need to help guide you during critical...
Extreme Measures
Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level
In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.
Jessica Zitter became a doctor...