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This powerful and inspiring book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane ?biography? of cancer?from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence...

In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medic...

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In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos.After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregi...

The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns?they saw themselves as modern saviorstobe. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in the timehonored tradition, racing to answer the flash of onduty call l...

The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intent...

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a noholdsbarred account of his time on the NHS front line. ...

A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition.When Pauline Chen began medical school twenty years ago, she dreamed of saving lives. What she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found h...

On Call begins with a newlyminted doctor checking in for her first day of residencywearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine just after graduating from medical school. This series of loo...

While supervising a small group of interns at a major New York medical center, Dr. Robert Marion asked three of them to keep a careful diary over the course of a year. Andy, Mark, and Amy vividly describe their reallife lessons in treating very sick children; confronting child abuse and the awful human impact of the AIDS epidemic; skirting the ind...

Now significantly revised based on student feedback, this bestselling text provides a quick, authoritative review of the most important clinical aspects of neuroanatomy. A new, fullcolor design highlights the essential information you need to know to excel on course exams and the USMLE Step 1. New objectives begin every chapter, contents have bee...

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The most popular annual guide of its kindfully revised and updated to reflect all new clinical developments in every field of medicineFor 60 years, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment the flagship volume of the renowned Lange medical series has been delivering the authoritative information students, residents, and clinicians need to build th...

Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. Residencyand especially the first year, called internshipis legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours or more per week, most new doctors spend their fir...

The only anatomy atlas illustrated by physicians, Atlas of Human Anatomy, 7th edition, brings you worldrenowned, exquisitely clear views of the human body with a clinical perspective. In addition to the famous work of Dr. Frank Netter, you'll also find nearly 100 paintings by Dr. Carlos A. G. Machado, one of today's foremost medical illustrators. ...

Succeed on the USMLE, other board exams, and course exams with this updated Sixth Edition of BRS Embryology. Acclaimed for its easytoread, easytoscan outline format, this bestselling book includes over 220 USMLEstyle questions with complete answers and explanations, as well as exams at the end of each chapter and an endofbook Comprehensive E...

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The landmark guide to internal medicine updated and streamlined for today's students and clinicians Through six decades, no resource has matched the authority, esteemed scholarship, and scientific rigor of "Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine." Capturing the countless advances and developments across the full span of medicine, the new 19th...

The leading physiology book on the market, this bestselling title in the Board Review Series offers a concise, highly efficient review of all essential physiology concepts covered in the first and second year of medical school, as well as more than 350 clinical vignettestyle multiplechoice questions to help students prepare for course exams and p...

A brief, clear, thorough, and highly enjoyable approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts and illustrations, from AIDS to flesheating bacteria to ebola, mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, botulism, etc. Significant updates. Excellent Board review....

This Color Atlas of Anatomy features fullcolor photographs of actual cadaver dissections, with accompanying schematic drawings and diagnostic images. The photographs depict anatomic structures with a realism unmatched by illustrations in traditional atlases and show students specimens as they will appear in the dissection lab.Chapters are organize...

A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother?s death in childbirth and thei...

What is it like to be a brain surgeon How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling, and reason How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrongIn neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to ...

Whether you're preparing for the USMLE Step 1, Step 2, or studying for course exams, Rapid Review Pathology, 5th Edition by acclaimed author Dr. Edward Goljan is your goto guide for uptodate, essential pathology information throughout medical school. Userfriendly features that make this comprehensive review tool the top choice of students world...

Readable and highly illustrated, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 10th Edition presents an indepth, stateoftheart overview of human diseases and their cellular and molecular basis. This bestselling text delivers the latest, most essential pathology knowledge in a readable, interesting manner, ensuring optimal understanding of th...

Effectively master the most important principles and facts in pathology with this easytouse new edition of Robbins and Cotran Review of Pathology. More than 1,100 questionsreviewed and updated to reflect the new content in the parent textreinforce the fundamentals of gross and microscopic pathology as well as the latest findings in molecular bi...

Perform an accurate, efficient, and effective physical examination with confidence.Bates? Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking provides authoritative, stepbystep guidance on performing the patient interview and physical examination, applying clinical reasoning, shared decisionmaking, and other core assessment skills?all based on a fi...

It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger, something more meaningful than crushing rocks ...

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. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually isuncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonficti...

The 13th edition of "Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology" continues this bestselling title's long tradition as the world's foremost medical physiology textbook. Unlike other textbooks on this topic, this clear and comprehensive guide has a consistent, singleauthor voice and focuses on the content most relevant to clinical and preclinic...

This series extracts the most important information on each topic and presents it in a concise, uncluttered fashion to prepare students for the USMLE. HighYield means exactly that!HighYield Embryology, Fifth Edition provides a concentrated, efficient review of embryology material tested on the USMLE Step 1. Concepts are presented in a streamlined...

Now in its seventh edition, Histology: A Text and Atlas is ideal for medical, dental, health professions, and undergraduate biology and cell biology students. This bestselling combination text and atlas includes a detailed textbook, which emphasizes clinical and functional correlates of histology fully supplemented by vividly informative illustrat...

How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today?the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians' provide, insurance companies that don't demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs, ...

By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patie...

Part of the trusted Robbins and Cotran family, Robbins Basic Pathology provides a readable, wellillustrated and concise overview of the principles of human pathology that's ideal for today's busy students. This thoroughly revised edition continues with a strong emphasis on pathogenesis and the clinical features of disease, adding new artwork and m...

Find what you need to know?fast! This bestselling volume in the popular StepUp series provides a highyield review of medicine, ideal for preparing for clerkships or clinical rotations, shelf exams, and the USMLE Step 2. Clinical pearls, fullcolor illustrations, and ?Quick Hits? provide essential information in an efficient, easytoremember mann...

Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, overmedication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance." The Spirit Catches You and Yo...

This nowclassic text presents the most relevant points in clinical neuroanatomy with mnemonics, humor and case presentations. For neuroanatomy courses and Board review. Includes attached CDROM on Neurologic Localization with 3D animated rotations of the brain. Neuroanatomy laboratory tutorial with photographs of brain specimens. Tutorial on how t...

San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the HôtelDieu (God's Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical careended up here. So did Victoria Swee...

When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow residents ...

A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland's How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. This new edition includes an allembracing and incisive afterword that examines the current state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus. It a...

In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor?the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who could reach unreachable patients. But when a new admission to the critical care unit almost died his first night on call, he found himself scrambling. Visions of mastery quickly gave way to hopes of simply surviving hospital ...

Throughout history women have practiced the art of medicine and healing. Yet they have always faced difficulties in the medical professionnot only have they struggled to gain acceptance from their male colleagues, they have also struggled to find a balance between being a doctor and being a wife and mother. Here, in This Side of Doctoring Eliza L...

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerl...

Here Dr. Sacks recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders: people afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations; patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common object...

Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers?some willingly, some unwittingly?have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells t...

Michelle Au started medical school armed only with a surfeit of idealism, a handful of old ER episodes for reference, and some vague notion about "helping people." This Won't Hurt a Bit is the story of how she grew up and became a real doctor. It's a noholdsbarred account of what a modern medical education feels like, from the grim to the ridicul...