Best Medical Essays
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. His prose is thoughtful and deeply engaging, shifting from sometimes painful stories of suffering patients (including his own child) to intriguing suggestions for improving medicine with the same care he expresses in the surgical theater.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As I've mentioned in other reviews, this author is absolutely amazing, so talented, so real, sharing so much of himself and what goes on in the surgeon's world.....rather terrifying, actually, but I would want him to be my surgeon."
"Wonderfully written book."
"The stories and anecdotes reveal the struggles doctors face when trying to give patients clear, definitive answers to oft times mysterious and perplexing health problems."
"This book is about being human — living in human bodies, minds, and spirits — and thus it’s of interest to all of us."
"Dr. Gawande is a gifted writer who can make non-medical people aware of the difficulties his profession faces."
"Love this author-have several of his books now-Checklist Manifesto I've read over and over."
"His ideas have found applications in diverse fields like investing (The checklist manifesto is particularly very popular book among value investor community)."
"I think this book is pretty helpful in motivating you."
Atul Gawande, the New York Times bestselling author of Complications, examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession. A surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Atul Gawande succeeds in putting a human face on controversial topics like malpractice and global disparities in medical care, while taking an unflinching look at his own failings as a doctor.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is another great book by Dr. Gawande with stories of every day ingenuity that leads to big changes and improvements."
"Uses captivating stories to make his point."
"Interesting and Dr. Gawande is a very good writer."
"Atul stitches together what at first are seemingly random, yet very interesting stories within medicine,and masterfully converges the stories into a beautiful singular mission that makes all of us want to take part in the betterment of medicine and our world."
"Arrived as promised."
"Great books and good author."
"For a student planning a medical career."
"One of the most exceptional books I've read."
The best of his New Yorker articles are collected here to astound readers with intriguing tales of epidemics in America’s small towns, threats of contagion in our biggest cities, even bubonic plague in a peaceful urban park. “Berton Roueché’s ‘Annals of Medicine’ pieces enriched us for well over a quarter of a century.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"When a Berton Roueche medical investigation appeared in The New Yorker of old, it was an event. And we,as readers, were nine times out ten fascinated by what had been unearthed."
"Great price, good quality and received almost immediately!"
"Some of these essays are dated."
"An excellent book, and a good read."
"This is a nice collection of stories, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, detailing medical mysteries from the 1940s through the 1980s."
"Written as extended case histories with the punchlines coming unexpectedly at the end of piece of descriptive narrative."
"My only complaint is the setting being so far in the past that some of the occurrences are less than relevant to modern day standards."
"The author presents very intriguing cases of ailments that had perplexed doctors."
Best Medical Transportation
The ACE SAT will assist the critical care transport provider with preparing to challenge the Certified Flight Paramedic (FP-C), Certified Flight Nurse (CFRN) or Certification for Emergency Nurses (CEN) exam(s).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"You should take a course/review and use other textbooks for more preparation but this book will put you in test mode."
"I highly recommend this book for anyone looking for an additional study aid to both the flight and critical care paramedic exam."
"This book is a good study tool that helped me pass my FPC test."
"Not all is applicable if your from Canada, as the equipment, drugs and protocols are different, however the physiology of flight applies everywhere."
"All of the "positive" reviews I've read about this book are true."
"I'm studying, hope it helps."
"From what others told me about this book it was "go to" when studying."
Best Lasers in Medicine
Edited and written by the acknowledged masters in the field, this edition provides clear, concise step-by-step details on all procedures, along with Advances in NOTES procedures and valuable author commentary. --Improve your understanding of important applications for esophageal, colorectal, and thoracic surgeries; gastric and hepatobiliary procedures; and pancreas and endocrine procedures. ‘This is an excellent text that is both concise and inclusive.’. ‘a valuable asset for the preparation of a variety of cases’. ‘The strength of the text is the stepwise approach to each condition’. ‘This is an excellent text that I would recommend to most senior residents and certainly to all fellows in minimally-invasive surgery’. Weighted Numerical Score: 90 - 4 Stars!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Beautiful book with the most relevant information about laparoscopic surgery."
"Brilliant book arrived in perfecy condition."
Best History of Medicine
In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them. “This quirky, funny read offers perspective and insight about life, death and the medical profession.... You can close this book with an appreciation of the miracle that the human body really is.”. - Tara Parker-Pope, Wall Street Journal. “A laugh-out-loud funny book... one of those wonderful books that offers up enlightenment in the guise of entertainment.”. - Michael Little, Washington City Paper.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Wonderfully written, Stiff tells of all the things that happen to dead bodies in the quest to find out more about live bodies."
"Very interesting examination of death and what happens, or should happen, to our 'mortal coil' once we shuffle it off."
"Death is very much a part of life as this book will show you and also give you a good laugh along the way!"
"I liked the different takes on handling the dead."
"Love all her works, fascinating and written so that it is palatable to anyone."
"I bought this book after having been given the Mary Roach book - 'Packing for Mars'."
"An interesting read."
"Gave this as a gift, haven't gotten any complaints."
Best Prosthesis
Building on the strengths of Amputations and Prosthetics 2nd Edition , Doctors Bella J.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Required text for PT program."
"Good description and explanation of different aspects of prosthetics and orthotics."
"I really like this book, it is short but not to short and gives you what you need to know."
"O&P students may find the case study approach of the text useful, but it is not as in-depth as texts like Orthotics and Prosthetics in Rehabilitation, 2e which is an excellent text. Practicing ortho-prosthetists will appreciate the section on "Teaching Prosthetic Control" in chapter 7."
"Severely outdated, not worth the money."