12/31/2011

The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies (Proven Remedies That Medical Doctors Don't Know About) Review

The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies (Proven Remedies That Medical Doctors Don't Know About)
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I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT "PRESCRIPTION FOR NUTRITIONAL HEALING" (WHOSE AUTHOR-BALCH- WROTE THE FORWARD TO THIS ONE)WAS THE NATURAL NUTRITIONAL BIBLE.
AND IT WAS UNTIL I READ THIS ONE!
INSTEAD OF BEING ARRANGED BY TYPE OF AILMENT, AS BALCH'S WAS, IT IS ARRANGED BY SUPPLEMENT (CALLED 'THERAPIES'). EACH ONE IS DISCUSSED IN DETAIL WITH OCCASIONAL PERSONAL ANECDOTES ABOUT HIS SUCCESS IN TREATING HIS PATIENTS (THAT MOST OTHER DOCTORS HAD GIVEN UP ON).
HE COVERS ALL PERTINENT ASPECTS OF THE SUPPLEMENT AND SHOWS THE APPLICABILITY TO A NUMBER OF AILMENTS AND HOW/WHY IT DOES WHAT IT DOES.
AND THERE CAVEATS ABOUT MISAPPLYING THEM...LIKE A NATURAL BLOOD THINER IF YOU ARE TAKING BLOOD THINER MEDECINE.
AND THE SUMMARY PAGE OF EACH SUPPLEMENT SHOWS HOW IT IS USED TO COMBAT THE TOP PERTINENT ILLNESSES.
THIS IS MY "NEW TESTAMENT" BIBLE!!
NO HOME SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT!! AT $100 A COPY IT WOULD BE CHEAP!
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The Art of JAMA: Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume III (Jama & Archives Journals (Oxford University Press)) Review

The Art of JAMA: Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume III (Jama and Archives Journals (Oxford University Press))
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Dr. M. Therese Southgate, MD has elevated a business journal to a new level of sophistication as Senior Contributing Editor of the JAMA weekly journal. While most professional journals devote the covers to simply words or abstracts form articles within, JAMA began the practice of using reproductions of fine art on each journal cover some years ago, but when Dr. Southgate took over this responsibility she not only curated the images that were to be used but also began adding a bit of art history in the journal body itself, adding background on the artist and the painting or sculpture depicted on the cover. These combination 'illustrated essays' are wide ranging in the schools of art they represent and Dr. Southgate's quality writing is worthy of any art history journal. For instance, the current journal for February 23, 2011 features Abbott Handerson Thayer's 1898 'Self Portrait' and is accompanied by a full page biography of this relatively unknown artist as written by Janet M. Torphy, MD.
This book then serves as a collection of all of the art on the covers for a year along with the essays and the result is a unique survey for everyone who enjoys art history. The color reproductions are good and the design is excellent. This is a good resource book and thankfully helps restore the 'art' to the art of Medicine! Grady Harp, February 11

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Since 1964, beginning with a reproduction of Jan van Eycke's St Jerome in His Study, the front cover of JAMA:The Journal of the American Medical Association has featured full-color images of renowned works of fine art as well as many lesser-known gems. Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, and hundreds of other artists have graced the covers of this eminent medical journal.For the past four decades, these images have been selected by JAMA senior contributing editor Dr. M. Therese Southgate, who writes marvelous accompanying essays exploring the background of the artist and the circumstances under which the work was completed, followed by astute commentary on the work itself. These engaging articles have been regularly rated as one of the top-read sections in JAMA by readers throughout the world. In this third volume of The Art of JAMA, Dr. Southgate brings together a new selection of 100 wonderful covers. Each painting is displayed in a two-page spread, with Dr. Southgate's essay on the work on the facing page. The volume includes works by Marc Chagall, Leonardo da Vinci, James Ensor, Paul Gauguin, Frida Kahlo, René Magritte, Édouard Manet, Edvard Munch, Georgia O'Keeffe, Rembrandt van Rijn, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, and many more. And, of course, Dr. Southgate also includes less famous artists, treating readers to the pleasure of unexpected discovery. Lavishly illustrated, exquisitely designed, and printed on high-quality paper, The Art of JAMA is a beautiful book that will be a perfect graduation present from medical school and an excellent gift for physicians, other health care professionals, art historians, and anyone interested in art and medicine.

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American Medical Association Complete Guide to Prevention and Wellness Review

American Medical Association Complete Guide to Prevention and Wellness
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This is an excellent book for anyone who would like to improve their health or just wants to look up medical information. It was much better than I had expected and feel everyone should own a copy. So many topics for a great price!

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MORE THAN 3 MILLION AMERICANMEDICAL ASSOCIATION BOOKS SOLDFrom America's most trusted source for medical advice--a comprehensive guide to preventing illness and promoting wellnessIf you're one of the millions of people who have decided to take more direct control of their health by focusing on illness prevention and self-care, the American Medical Association Complete Guide to Prevention and Wellness is the resource you need. This authoritative guide provides valuable information to help you prevent disease and stay healthy throughout your life. It lays out the foundations of good health and shows you the basic steps you can take to reduce your health risks and prevent major illnesses such as heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and some forms of cancer. You will learn how to avoid these and other common afflictions by making lifestyle changes and understanding what your body needs to stay fit and healthy.Filled with leading-edge information, this indispensable reference also describes key risk-reducing measures, from eating a healthy diet and being more physically active to reducing stress, getting a good night's sleep, and having all the recommended screening tests. You will find the most effective techniques for avoiding food-borne illnesses, and you'll learn how to minimize specific risks for children, adolescents, women, and men.Comprehensive in scope, easy to navigate, and filled with clear, helpful information and illustrations, the American Medical Association Complete Guide to Prevention and Wellness is the essential health resource for every age and stage of life.

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12/30/2011

Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health (Harvard Medical School Guides) Review

Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health (Harvard Medical School Guides)
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Not a bad review on HRT options. Really quite technical and full of details that anyone but a health care provider will have difuculty fully grasping, but for those laypeople motivated to read it, it will still be quite usefull. As a health care provider myself, I wish the book was less wordy and had more bullet point summary charts with just the facts listed about various treatment options. Still, good information overall, and once I get motivated enough to type up my own summary sheets, I will likely use the info quite a bit in practice.

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What you should know about menopausal hormone therapy--from the renowned Harvard doctor who is one of the pioneers conducting the latest research in the field

Recent news stories on the safety of menopausal hormone therapy (also known as hormone replacement therapy, or HRT) have raised public awareness and sparked a national debate. Now learn the facts about this controversial treatment for menopause--from the field's go-to expert.

Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health explains the changes that occur during menopause. It also provides you with state-of-the-art information to help you make informed decisions about hormone therapy and other options for treating symptoms of menopause. The cutting-edge research and advice presented in this book will help you determine whether to start hormone therapy, or, if you are already taking hormones, whether you should continue to do so. This book will help you work more effectively with your health care provider to make the best decisions about your medical care.If you have taken hormones in the past, Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health will also be useful in understanding the overall health effects of this treatment.

So, if you are debating whether to start, continue, or stop hormone therapy, Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health has the answers you need:

The latest scientific evidence on the benefits and risks of managing menopause with hormone therapy
Expert guidance in determining whether or not hormone therapy is the right choice for you, and, if it is, when to start, when to stop, and what type to use
The truth about bioidentical hormones
Healthful and effective options for women who cannot-or prefer not to-use hormone therapy

"Hot Flashes, Hormones & Your Health is one of the best books about menopause I've ever read. It is not only a great book for the woman going through menopause and experiencing this new phase of life, but also for the well-educated healthcare professional who thought she or he had read everything on the topic."--from a review by Robyn B. Faye, MD, FACOG; published in Flashes, the North America Menopause Society newsletter


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Appalachian Cultural Competency: A Guide for Medical, Mental Health, and Social Service Professionals Review

Appalachian Cultural Competency: A Guide for Medical, Mental Health, and Social Service Professionals
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The book was a series of well-written journal articles. For those that are professionals and relocating to Appalachia, it is a must read. It differs from the "anagelsic subculture" reads that are common. As an Appalachian, the only thing in the book that gave me cause was one article not including PA in the ARC-designated region. Not a difficult read, despite being academic...writers not above their raisin'.

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A Cry Unheard: New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness Review

A Cry Unheard: New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness
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I bought this book and was really awed at some of Dr. Lynch's comments and research. It is a gentle and profound book that looks at the physiological aspects of loneliness. Some of his observations are brilliant, I felt. I especially appreciated his research into the affects of early trauma, and our bodies' reactions as we talked about it. Interesting that bodies remember the early psychological effects, even if we consciously don't remember. While we might intuitively believe that to be true, his research was good evidence of its truth.
I am glad that Dr. Lynch is doing this research. It has great potential for many aspects of medicine, as well as psychotherapy. Kudos to Dr. Lynch!

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12/29/2011

Statistical Methods in Medical Research (Armitage, Statistical Methods in Medical Research) Review

Statistical Methods in Medical Research (Armitage, Statistical Methods in Medical Research)
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This is definitely one of the most comprehensive of all biostatistics textbooks out there and it is also the best. Authoritative in style, it starts from the very basics and surveys in *detail* almost every method in biostatistics.
You will be impressed: Apart from *all* the basic techniques usually found in most biostatistics texbooks, it has two extensive chapters on Bayesian methods (with Gibbs sampling, MCMC, etc., you name it), extensive treatments of clinical trials, extensive treatments of longitudinal data and GEE models, extensive details on the bootstrap and jackknife, an extensive chapter on methods in epidemiology (risk ratios, Mantel-Haenszel method), extensive treatments of categorical data (contingency tables, logistic regression), and an extensive chapter on survival analysis. This is indeed a very extensive book.
"Statistical Methods in Medical Research" is also a book on methodology, so theorems and proofs are not to be expected. Also there are no exercises, but there are excellent illustrative examples of the various methods. While it is very descriptive, it contains enough mathematics to keep the presentation of concepts *complete*. It is also very up-to-date and has an excellent reference list.
In a nutshell, this is a work of great ambition and vision: it will cater for beginners and masters alike.


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The explanation and implementation of statistical methods for the medical researcher or statistician remains an integral part of modern medical research. This book explains the use of experimental and analytical biostatistics systems. Its accessible style allows it to be used by the non-mathematician as a fundamental component of successful research.
Since the third edition, there have been many developments in statistical techniques. The fourth edition provides the medical statistician with an accessible guide to these techniques and to reflect the extent of their usage in medical research.
The new edition takes a much more comprehensive approach to its subject. There has been a radical reorganization of the text to improve the continuity and cohesion of the presentation and to extend the scope by covering many new ideas now being introduced into the analysis of medical research data. The authors have tried to maintain the modest level of mathematical exposition that characterized the earlier editions, essentially confining the mathematics to the statement of algebraic formulae rather than pursuing mathematical proofs.
Received the Highly Commended Certificate in the Public Health Category of the 2002 BMA Books Competition.

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Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation: A Practical Perspective of the Design, Construction, and Test of Medical Devices Review

Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation: A Practical Perspective of the Design, Construction, and Test of Medical Devices
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I couldn't put this book down. It contains a good description of instrumentation, including analog and digital filtering, signal conditioning, data acquisition. The authors' background is in cardiac care (pacemakers, etc.), and the book seems to focus a great deal on patient contact scenarios, whereas I would have preferred some discussion of instrumentation of other signals such as optical techniques (e.g. pulse oximetry), thermography, perhaps imaging technologies. It's a great book for anyone doing work with defibrillators/pacemakers, myography.
Medical Compliance: This book is a *fantastic* reference for anyone who needs to take a medical device through regulatory compliance. It includes a succint introduction to getting through the FDA mazz, plus several chapters dedicated to EMC (radiated/conducted emissions & suceptibility, etc.) and safety.
Although you'll find a decent quantity of equations and theory, the book is extremely practical and hands-on, including tons of clear schematics for various affordable test circuits (field probes, Hipot, leakage, etc.), and simple, direct approaches to testing and construction.
If you're looking strictly for a book on medical instrumentation, this is probably not enough. You won't find details of advanced filtering (e.g., adaptive noise cancellation), chopper detectors, fuzzy modeling & logic, algorithms, etc. But even though it's sparse on "design", this book is very strong on "development". Note the emphasis on FDA in this book, and very little mention of the European Medical Device directives (which, admittedly, are somewhat harmonized).

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Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation fills a gap in the existing medical electronic devices literature by providing background and examples of how medical instrumentation is actually designed and tested. The book includes practical examples and projects, including working schematics, ranging in difficulty from simple biopotential amplifiers to computer-controlled defibrillators. Covering every stage of the development process, the book provides complete coverage of the practical aspects of amplifying, processing, simulating and evoking biopotentials. In addition, two chapters address the issue of safety in the development of electronic medical devices, and providing valuable insider advice.

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Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives (MEDICAL HUMANITIES SERIES) Review

Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives (MEDICAL HUMANITIES SERIES)
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This is an excellent collection of essays that are quite revealing. I think that anyone who is interested in either working in health or wishes to learn more about the inner workings of health care and its challenges, this is a nice non-academic way of stimulating your mind.
I would highly recommend this text to pre-meds or pre-health students. Well done and thought provoking.

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12/28/2011

Assessment of Diving Medical Fitness for Scuba Divers and Instructors Review

Assessment of Diving Medical Fitness for Scuba Divers and Instructors
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Assessment of Diving Medical Fitness For Scuba Divers and Instructors is an excellent book which should be read by all divers, scuba instructors, and diving physicians! It is filled with up to date information presented in a user friendly style but comprehensive enough to educate divers of all levels, both recreational and professional. I particularly like the emphasis that Dr. Bennett places on the need to evaluate each diver's individual medical, physical and psychological components of fitness and the fact that these components should be reassessed as the diver ages and/or progresses to more challenging levels of diving. As a thirty year veteran of diving, teaching SCUBA, EMS, and Dive Accident Management programs, I wish this book had been written a long time ago!"

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A dive instructor is the first person to assess the general health and medical fitness of a prospective diver before he or she enters the water. Whether the diver is a recreational scuba diver, commercial, military or research diver, the same evaluation of physical fitness will apply. Internationally recognized authors, surgeons and researchers Bennett, Cronje and Campbell collaborated on this new book, "Assessment of Diving Medical Fitness for Scuba Divers and Instructors", to provide instructors and divers a clear and concise reference addressing the principles behind the necessary medical considerations and related decisions on diving fitness. It will help instructors and active divers determine when the input from a diving physician is mandatory and how to sensibly screen prospective divers for medical problems. "Assessment of Diving: Medical Fitness for Scuba Divers and Instructors" is also an excellent reference for first-time divers and experienced divers who may have medical questions related to their personal health and fitness. It is designed to provide advice in relatively simple non-medical language. In the final analysis, it is the personal responsibility of each diver to make a decision whether or not to dive, and Bennett, Cronje and Campbell compiled this laymen's guide for just that purpose.

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Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profesion, and the Pharmaceutical Industry Review

Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profesion, and the Pharmaceutical Industry
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from The NYTimes- April 24, 2007
Medicine and the Drug Industry, a Morality Tale
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
It was in 1949 that Elvin Stakman, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, issued the membership their marching orders: "Science cannot stop while ethics catches up."
And sure enough, from bombs to clones, the ethicists have generally kept to the rear of the scientific parade: they are the ones with the big brooms trying to restore order after the floats and the elephants go by.
Those brooms sweep slowly. Often, by the time the ethicists finish laying out facts and weighing relevant moral values, the worst of any given crisis has passed. But recently, those who work in medicine have moved closer to the fray: they staff acute-care hospitals and monitor events in real time, aiming for a little less retrospective philosophy and a little more damage control.
In this proactive spirit Howard Brody, a medical ethicist, has brought his discipline's tools to the relationship between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry. This problematic tangle of moral compromise (or triumphant health-promoting collaboration, depending on your point of view) has inspired several polemics by physicians in recent years, all of them straightforward indictments of the pharmaceutical industry and its for-profit webs.
Dr. Brody is also a physician, but he aims for the measured cadences of the ethicist instead, calmly laying out the relevant facts and then reasoning from basic principles to determine whether the medicine-pharmaceutical relationship, as it stands now, is an ethical one or not.
That Dr. Brody manages to deliver a hundred-odd pages of determinedly objective analysis before he, too, lets the righteous indignation roll should not really be called a failure of methodology: even as he carefully lays out the facts in this impressively comprehensive book, those facts begin to speak damningly for themselves.
The small-time operations that grew up into modern medicine and Big Pharma joined together back in the late 19th century, allied in the name of scientific medicine against a variety of dubious health-care entrepreneurs. The A.M.A. actually called the early pharmaceutical companies the "ethical" drug makers, to distinguish them from unscrupulous patent-medicine peddlers.
Over time, this casual alliance has been reinforced with such complex and often invisible bonds that, in Dr. Brody's title metaphor, medicine and pharma are now "hooked" like two pieces of Velcro, tethered by a million barbs and as dependent on each other as any addicts are on their substance of choice.
Dr. Brody systematically analyzes the levels of connection, from the lowly drug salesman buying lunch for a roomful of medical students (future customers all) to the lucrative contracts and patents that simultaneously fuel medical research, fill corporate coffers and give us, as the industry doggedly and quite correctly points out, dozens of truly miraculous life-saving drugs.
Many of these interactions are probably now familiar to most readers: the omnipresent logo-bearing trinkets festooning medical offices, the free samples of the latest, most expensive drugs, the "ask your doctor" television ads.
Less familiar may be some of industry's other friendly overtures: the lavish junkets and cash rewards for some "high-prescribing" doctors; the subtle manipulations of research data; the way-too-generous financing of postgraduate medical education; the very cozy relationship with the Food and Drug Administration and its physician consultants; and a casually Orwellian interference with the average physician's prescription pad.
A drug salesman recalls for Dr. Brody the time his company asked a local doctor to evaluate various sales presentations for a particular drug: "He'd been selected because our data showed that he was a relatively low prescriber. ...Basically, the company was willing to bet $500 or $750 that if he heard the same drug pitch all day, by the end of the day he'd be so brainwashed that he could not possibly prescribe any other drug but ours."
All this mutual back-scratching would be fine if patients' interests were indeed being served. But ample data indicates quite the reverse. Patients, after all, are the ones who pay for expensive drugs when cheaper would do as well, and the ones who swallow dangerous drugs nudged to market by their manufacturers.
Many individual problematic drugs make an appearance here. Chloromycetin, a toxic antibiotic from the 1950s, was relentlessly promoted by its manufacturer for routine use until the day its patent expired. (Still available in generic form, it is now used only as a last resort.) Thalidomide never caused an epidemic of birth defects in this country, as it did in Germany, only because a single stubborn F.D.A. officer was dissatisfied with the drug's safety profile, despite the manufacturer's repeated assurances that everything was fine.
The epitaph of the recently withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, whose virtues were subtly spun to the medical community in prestigious research journals, is still being written in litigation around the country.
"Research that is driven by marketing rather than by scientific aims would seem, in the end, to be low-quality research," Dr. Brody comments mildly about the Vioxx fiasco.
His overall conclusion is similarly low-key: "A profession is not just a way of making money; it's a form of public trust. ...Medicine has for many decades now been betraying this public trust."
It is not a particularly surprising conclusion, and, in fact, there is relatively little in this book to surprise anyone familiar with the territory. Rather than new material, it provides a meticulously referenced compendium of all the relevant history and commentary (including, for full disclosure, excerpts from one of this reviewer's columns in this newspaper).
Its breadth translates into a lack of depth in some areas, especially the final section, in which Dr. Brody tries to outline a feasible solution to the mess. His suggestions are cogent but a little skimpy, given that absent an act of God, it will probably take an act of Congress to pry medicine and industry apart someday, preferably as part of thoroughgoing health care reform.
Still, for a detailed overview of this very jagged terrain, if not for a map of the pathway out, a better general guide than this one is hard to imagine.
Abigail Zuger, a regular contributor, is a physician in Manhattan.


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Emery and Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics e-dition: Continually Updated Online Reference, 3-Volume Set (Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics (Emery & Rimoin)) Review

Emery and Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics e-dition: Continually Updated Online Reference, 3-Volume Set (Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics (Emery and Rimoin))
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I ordered a number of competitor volumes for comparison, and this is simply the best of the group. Yes, it's expensive, but worth every penny. The online access is an added bonus for quick access when away from these heavy volumes. Superb photographs, illustrations, and content!

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12/27/2011

Murder By Injection: The Story of the Medical Conspiracy Against America Review

Murder By Injection: The Story of the Medical Conspiracy Against America
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Read this book, all the pieces of the healthcare debate will fall into place after you've read this. You'll realize what a sinister system we have in place in this country. PROFIT MOTIVE.

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Medical Laboratory Management and Supervision Review

Medical Laboratory Management and Supervision
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I purchased the first edition years ago when I was preparing for the old NCA Clinical Lab Director certification exam. It served well for that purpose but I also found that it was frequently useful as a reference in my day to day practice. Later I sat for ASCP DLM certification and again, this was just about the only reference I needed in reviewing for the exam. I have recommended this book to others many times since its publication and was delighted to see that a second edition was available. The second edition is updated significantly and lives up to the legacy from the first edition. I highly recommend this very useful resource to anybody currently in a laboratory management position or to anybody who aspires to such a position.

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Merriam-Webster Medical Office Handbook, 2E Review

Merriam-Webster Medical Office Handbook, 2E
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The book is packed with a wide range of topics including medical ethics, stafing, scheduling, computers, Total Quality Management, managed care contracting, managing health records, etc.

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A single volume handbook that provides fast, reliable answers in running an efficient and effective medical office by addressing all aspects of office management, medical writing and managed care issues. This invaluable health resource was written by a team of health care administration experts.

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12/26/2011

Embracing Our Mortality: Hard Choices in an Age of Medical Miracles Review

Embracing Our Mortality: Hard Choices in an Age of Medical Miracles
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Embracing Our Mortality is an excellent book by an outstanding physician, medical ethicist and gifted writer. Dr. Schneiderman covers many of the problems that physicians, nurses and families experience in dealing with very sick and dying patients, be they stricken with cancer, AIDS or suffering at the end of a normal life. He uses well known case studies (Eg. Terri Schiavo)to drive home his points regarding the excesses of uncalled for medical heroics near the end of ones life. He reputes the commonly held belief that psychological coping styles, including hope, can influence event free survival in patients with cancer. Yet, he provides sound, realistic advice that will provide comfort for the patient and the families of the terminally ill.
His discussion of alternative medicine, its providers and its clueless,celebrity, unscientific supporters is a must read. So many patients are led astray by the unfounded promises of alternative medicine treatments.
This is a book for doctors, nurses, patients, their families, the elderly, and hopefully will be read by our politicians.
Carl E. Bartecchi

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While surveys show that most of us would prefer to die at home, 80% of us will die in a health care facility, many hooked up to machines and faced with tough decisions. When you, a family member, or a friend are in this situation, what should you do next? In Embracing Our Mortality, Dr. Lawrence J. Schneiderman, a physician who is our leading expert on medical ethics at the end of life, urges all of us, including health care professionals caring for people at the end of life, to face these decisions with sensitivity and realism informed by both the latest medical evidence as well as the oldest humanistic visions. Dr. Schneiderman vividly demonstrates the wisdom of this approach by interweaving true stories of his patients, current empirical research in care at the end of life, displays of the power of empathy and imagination as embodied in the work of writers like Tolstoy and Chekov, and examples of how the distortion of medical research by media, and its misunderstanding even by health care professionals, cloud the ability to think, feel, and decide clearly about mortal concerns. He ends by addressing the question implicit in all of this which is how to achieve a just and universal health care. Dr. Schneiderman proves a refreshingly honest, astringent, and life-affirming guide to thinking about the choices that we or people we love will face when we dienot if, as the technological imperatives of modern medicine can suggestand to making decisions at the end of life that respect all that has preceded it.

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Validation for Medical Device and Diagnostic Manufacturers, Second Edition Review

Validation for Medical Device and Diagnostic Manufacturers, Second Edition
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Excellent book. Easy to read and understand for the basics of verification and validation throughout the product lifecycle.

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