Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I almost never read textbooks for class. I always rely on the class syllabus and lecture notes and I've done well. But I not only read this book for my therapeutics class, I'm going to take time out of my summer to read the other sections because it is so helpful and well-written. The explanations are...
4/30/2012
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Charles Briggs is a genius. I had him as a professor a couple of years ago and he is the most entertaining and understanding individual. This book is also really good. It was one of the assigned readings for the class, but I am glad to have read it!Click Here to see more reviews about: Stories in the...
Victorian Grotesque: An illustrated excursion into medical curiosities, freaks, and abnormalities, principally of the Victorian age Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is a compilation of medical abnormalities in the Victorian era. It illustrates conditions from the minor - an extra digit, to the extreme - parasitic conjoined twins (an example of which was born in South America recently; the separation was successful but the baby died due to complications)....
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4/29/2012
Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine: From Symptom to Diagnosis Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The book is unique in:1. the extent to which it deals with symptoms and signs2. the color pictures 3. clinical relevance of the material4. to serve as the most comprehensive reference for medical students I highly recommend it.Click Here to see more reviews about: Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine:...
Oxford Textbook of Sports Medicine (Oxford Medical Publications) Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This edition goes with excellent design, making of "Oxford Textbook of Sports Medicine" an intellectual and didactic attractive. Moreover, in this second edition the sections are reviewed, having important topics for physicians and all people interesting in sports medicine. The chapters are completes...
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The A&E Consultant's Secret (Harlequin Medical - Large Print) Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Description from the book back cover:The only man she'll ever love ... At eighteen years old Nell Cassidy was forced to give up her first love - the very striking Bren Forsythe. Now a successful A&E consultant, she's back in Glenfallon, and Bren is the new surgeon! Nell has her reasons for keeping...
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4/28/2012
Teaching Atlas of Interventional Radiology: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Angiography Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Together with the book by Karim Valji (Vascular and interventional radiology, ISBN 0721670032) this book forms a formidable addition to any prospective interventionalist's library. The book essentially forms two parts. An introduction describing in a review format some common fields of interventional...
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Understanding the Ji Gui Yao Lue: A Comprehensive Textbook Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Contrary to their database, the book is not out of print, was just published in late 2009 in China and is widely available.Click Here to see more reviews about: Understanding the Ji Gui Yao Lue: A Comprehensive Textbook"Understanding he Jin Gui Yao Lue - A Practical Textbook" discusses the pathomechanisms...
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Expert Consult- Online and Print (Expert Consult Title: Online + Print) Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This 3rd edition, again never failes to deliver.Has become a truly established classic Text reference of PM&R, now with stunning aesthetic improvements in line with the High tech age. Lots of Color Pictures etc. With the e-edition now, makes this reference even more readily available to people on...
4/27/2012
Masterpieces of Medical Photography: Selections from the Burns Archive Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This fine, limited-edition hard-bound book with dust jacket was published in 1987 by the Twelvetrees Press. It contains forty four-color plates on uncoated paper with accompanying text. The photograph on each plate consists of a medical subject from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century....
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A Not Entirely Benign Procedure Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am a biology major/ pre-med student at UCLA, though it is through my English class that I found this book. Simply put, this novel made me think. I continuously wondered, "can i handle 'dog dissection'... will I be able to memorize all of the countless facts about all these rare diseases?" An entire...
Eating Disorders: A Guide to Medical Care and Complications Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Philip S. Mehler, MD and Arnold E. Andersen, MD's EATING DISORDERS: A GUIDE TO MEDICAL CARE AND COMPLICATIONS appears in its second updated edition to cover the special challenges eating disorders impart to clinicians treating them. Both physical and mental health are considered in this identification...
4/26/2012
Evaluation of the Sexually Abused Child: A Medical Textbook and Photographic Atlas (Book with CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh) Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Long experience and devotion to this difficult area of study are evident. The basics are logically and quite comprehensively presented. A good text for pediatric and family medicine trainees as well as forensic nursing practitioners.Click Here to see more reviews about: Evaluation of the Sexually Abused...
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Bats in Captivity - Volume 1: Biological and Medical Aspects Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book has lots of information and pictures. It may be in black and white, but the pictures are plentiful. You will see real bats and drawings and exactly where to find the veins for blood draws, give injections at appropriate sites, nutrition, diseases, restraint and handling, and all the procedures...
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Interpreting the Medical Literature Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A statistician might find Gehlbach's explanations a bit too simplistic, but I think it gives a fantastic overview of how to approach interpretation of journal articles. An attending asked us to buy the second edition of this book when I was a 3rd Year med student, and I still use it today teaching residents....
4/25/2012
The History of Modern Epilepsy: The Beginning, 1865-1914 (Contributions in Medical Studies) Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I never thought the history of epilepsy could be exciting....but Dr. Friedlander's well-written book brings a dynamic essence to a mysterious and poorly understood disease. His research is painstaking and thorough, yet his verbage is far from dry and academic. He weaves a true story into a telling masterpiece...
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Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Based Practice Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Thank you for your timely shipment and exceptional service.Warm regards,Rebecca EiranovaClick Here to see more reviews about: Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Based PracticeClick here for more information about Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Based Pract...
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