9/28/2012

Harvard Med: The Story Behind America's Premier Medical School and the Making of America's Do ctors Review

Harvard Med: The Story Behind America's Premier Medical School and the Making of America's Do ctors
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After I read the book "Becoming a doctor," I became interested in reading books about medical students. So I started reading this book. I have to say that I am disappointed about its content. Although the author declared in the beginning that this is not a book about any particular medical students, I still expected that he would actually tell us some inside stories about Harvard Med.
From all I can remember, he only talked about orientation day, cadaver dissection period, then graduation day. It happens at all other medical schools. Other than the superficial things, he could have spent some time on explaining and exploring the extra materials that Harvard Med provides. I still do not know much about how the students at Harvard are learning medicine. What makes Harvard's teaching so different and so much better than other medical schools? He failed to explain it.
This content doesn't really fit with the book title.
Some of the chapters are not really related to Harvard Med. It has quite a few intensive personal interviews. However, it seems that the author were using those people to express his own views about the impersonal services HMOs that are taking quality patient time which doctors may provide. That is all he talks about, and there was no other kinds of opinions that those doctors, students were expressing. And this part of the conversation is over expressed in this book.
Overall, it is not all about Harvard med. It is really just a collection of random Harvard Med articles.

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9/27/2012

The natural Physician's Healing Therapies Review

The natural Physician's Healing Therapies
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Dr. Stengler's book is an easy to use, fact-filled book. I have used alternative medicine extensively for the past 7 years, yet I found so much new information in this book. It is comprehensive, all the topics are explained well and easy to understand and implement, so that even a "beginner" would benefit greatly from it.
This book deserves at least a 5 Star review.

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From powerful supplements to potent natural cures, proven remedies that medical doctors don't knowChoosing natural remedies, however, can be a difficult and confusing task. Here, renowned naturopathic physician Mark Stengler provides readers with explanations of 100 of the hottest products on the supplement shelf.Based on Stengler's extensive experience practicing and studying natural therapies, this book offers sound advice to help readers protect their health and fight illness. Divided into two parts:Part I begins with an A-to-Z listing of natural therapies. Each section provides an introduction to the therapy being discussed, explaining what it is and why it's effective. It then provides an alphabetical list of specific conditions and ailments that each healing therapy will help prevent or cure, with explicit directions on how to use it for optimal results. Also included are sidebars, real-life examples, and anecdotes to enhance readability. Part II provides a comprehensive list of resources, including sources for herbs and supplements, practitioners of homeopathic medicine, and sources of exercise and natural therapy equipment.Included are supplements not yet publicized throughout the medical world such as Calcium D-Glucarate for sweeping poisons and toxins out of the body; Ipriflavone for fighting osteoporosis; and Lomatium Root for enhancing the immune system.An easy-to-use guide to staying well and overcoming illness, this reliable reference is sure to put anyone interested in natural solutions to health issues on the road to better health.

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Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series) Review

Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records (Chapman and Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)
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I really enjoyed reading this book. I work on health care IT in Germany and this book provides good mix of theory and practice. I particularly liked the insight into how much computer science is hidden behind key health care problems like grouping or searching patient records. I would recommend it to any health IT pprofessional who wants to go deeper into the EHR management.

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Exploiting the rich information found in electronic health records (EHRs) can facilitate better medical research and improve the quality of medical practice. Until now, a trivial amount of research has been published on the challenges of leveraging this information. Addressing these challenges, Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records explores the technology to unleash the data stored in EHRs.Assembling a truly interdisciplinary team of experts, the book tackles medical privacy concerns, the lack of standardization for the representation of EHRs, missing or incorrect values, and the availability of multiple rich health ontologies. It looks at how to search the EHR collection given a user query and return relevant fragments from the EHRs. It also explains how to mine the EHR collection to extract interesting patterns, group entities to various classes, or decide whether an EHR satisfies a given property. Most of the book focuses on textual or numeric data of EHRs, where more searching and mining progress has occurred. A chapter on the processing of medical images is also included.Maintaining a uniform style across chapters and minimizing technical jargon, this book presents the various ways to extract useful knowledge from EHRs. It skillfully discusses how EHR data can be effectively searched and mined.

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Geology and Health: Closing the Gap Review

Geology and Health: Closing the Gap
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The Editors of 'Geology and Health' have produced a collection of papers that will be of great interest to medical specialists, biologists, and geologists. Interdisciplinary studies on natural hazzards such as arsenic in groundwater and geochemical concentrations of toxic heavy metals in soils are required to understand the origins and pathways of some diseases.This new interest in geomedicine has been stimulated by EPA regulations and by advanced laboratory intstruments that produce extremely accurate chemical data on toxic concentrations in water, soil, and air. This will be an excellent textbook to stimulate university students to explore a vast domain between public health and earth sciences.

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9/26/2012

Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology: Expert Consult - Online and Print (Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology) Review

Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology: Expert Consult - Online and Print (Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology)
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Livro com dezenas de capitulos abordando a senescencia. Muito bom e agradavel de se ler. Ótimo para se estudar. Os autores abordam temas nao avaliados em outros livros da mesma categoria. Por exemplo, um capitulo aborda e compara a sindrome de hutchinson gilford (progeria) com o envelhecimento normal - muito bom. Tem um total de 128 capitulos em 1071 paginas. Referencias on line. Recomendo.

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Diagnostic Medical Sonography: Obstetrics and Gynecology (v. 1) Review

Diagnostic Medical Sonography: Obstetrics and Gynecology (v. 1)
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fine book for sonographers, radiology residents and ultrasonologist

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Completely revised and updated, the second edition of this invaluable text examines the most current trends and technologies in the field of obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound. In addition to a complete overview of the discipline, coverage includes the latest information available on the most essential topics, including infertility, amniocentesis, artifacts, chorionic villus sampling, and normal and abnormal anatomy. Written by leading sonographers for sonographers, readers are assured of accurate, current, and proven information. More than 800 images illustrate both normal and abnormal features, offering a strong source of reference for clinical practice. Images are accompanied by summary tables, schematics, and diagrams, making comprehension and application of the material much easier. More than 20 new color illustrations complement the updated content; and a new chapter on endovaginal ultrasound keeps readers informed on the latest advances.

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The Mystery of Breathing: A Novel Review

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The Mystery of Breathing works on a number of levels. The novel is unsurpassed as a piece of literary fiction, but it also works as an intellectually astute character study, a riveting thriller, and as an insight into the world of premature babies and the medical professionals who fight to save their lives. Klass peppers her narrative with short, sharp sentences and alternatively jumps between the past and the present; the result is a narrative that has an almost urgent and frenzied quality, fitting perfectly with the concurrent themes of ambition and career.
The main protagonist in the Mystery of Breathing is Maggie Claymore, a leading neonatologist at a busy Boston hospital. She's absolutely committed to her work - she works long hours, and fanatically assists in bringing the smallest and sickest babies back to life. Her loyal husband Dan, who also works as a doctor for the underprivileged, understands her commitment, and generally supports her in her endeavors.
Maggie is organized, disciplined, and reliable - "a neat person who needs her world to be neat." She's also an excellent, compassionate and ambitious practitioner, but she has a tendency to be egotistical, arrogant and "far too wedded to her own arguments." She thinks nothing of berating other doctors and inexperienced medical interns for being hesitant and not knowing enough about their job. The novel opens with her dramatic resuscitation of a premature baby, who teetered on the verge of death until Maggie's skill helps the tiny lungs take a breath. Then, in front of nurses and staff, she chews out a resident for not being more prepared for emergencies.
The same day she gets a malicious and hate-filled letter that vilifies her as being evil and self-satisfied. Soon letters blasting her competence and hinting at her responsibility in the death of a child are posted on walls around the hospital and are being sent to hospital officials. One evening, she returns to her office to find a bedpan full of someone's nasty diarrhea on her desk. Maggie's world of professional security and temerity begins to fall apart as the administrators hire a detective to frantically find the letter writer. But the damage is already done - her co-workers are whispering behind her back, and many of the colleagues start admitting that Maggie - determined to save every baby's life no matter the cost - is far too aggressive in reviving infants who will more than likely end up with brain damage or serious health problems.

Klass juxtaposes Maggie's modern dramas with a look back at her life as a child, and as a teenager where her religiously conservative, unfocussed mother, Annalisa tries to instill a "cramped and pinched life" into Maggie. Good friends who felt sorry for her poor and single state so carefully scrutinized Annalisa. But Maggie is an example of a modern woman who has reinvented herself, her home, her sex life, and her personal relationships. She realizes that she doesn't have to grow up to live the life in which she was raised and that she can pick and choose a life from "the great treasure chamber of the world."
Much of the narrative focuses on Maggie's internal life, and as the smear campaign gets worse, a conflict begins to rage within her. She finds herself asking why she's here and what she's feeling. Maybe her experiences in the neonatal unit will make her a more understanding person, aware of her own vulnerability and of the quirks and turns of fate. The Mystery of Breathing is a finely balanced, subtle novel that says a lot about the costs of career, the revelations of our hidden secrets, and the fear of being exposed. Mike Leonard November 04.


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