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Cell
The New York Times-bestselling Author And Master Of The Medical Thriller Returns With A Top-notch Fusion Of Groundbreaking Medical Science And Edge-of-your-seat Suspense. George Wilson, M.d., A Radiol...ogy Resident In Los Angeles, Is About To Enter A Profession On The Brink Of An Enormous Paradigm Shift, Foreshadowing A Vastly Different Role For Doctors Everywhere. The Smartphone Is Poised To Take On A New Role In Medicine, No Longer As A Mere Medical App But Rather As A Fully Customizable Personal Physician Capable Of Diagnosing And Treating Even Better Than The Real Thing. It Is Called Idoc. George's Initial Collision With This Incredible Innovation Is Devastating. He Awakens One Morning To Find His Fiancée Dead In Bed Alongside Him, Not Long After She Participated In An Idoc Beta Test. Then Several Of His Patients Die After Undergoing Imaging Procedures. All Of Them Had Been Part Of The Same Beta Test. Is It Possible That Idoc Is Being Subverted By Hackers-and That The U.s. Government Is Involved In A Cover-up? Despite Threats To Both His Career And His Freedom, George Relentlessly Seeks The Truth, Knowing That If He's Right, The Consequences Could Be Lethal. -- Robin Cook.
The Book of Devices
He Had Sought To Be The Agent Of All Forces And Actions On The Earth, And Thus, Just As He Had Transformed Iron Ingot Into A Music Box, So Had He Strived To Transform The Earth And All It Contained In...to A Machine. Ihsan Oktay Anar's 1996 Novella, The Book Of Devices, Is A Skeleton Key To The Ever-inventive Author's Fictional World Set In The Ottoman Times. Here Are The Wonderful Histories Of The Triumphs And Tribulations Of Three Ottoman Inventors, As Reported By The Narrators Of Events And Relators Of Traditions. By Turns Humorous And Touching, These Interlinked Stories Are Nutshells Of Vividly Imagined Past. While We Follow Yafes Chelebi And His Two Successors In Their Search For The Secret Of The Perpetual Motion, The Crumbling Empire Undergoes Drastic Changes In The Background And The City Of Their Dreams, Istanbul, Witnesses Coup D''tats, Westernizing Reforms, And The Advent Of Technological Innovation. Written In A Unique Idiom That Is Both A Tender Mimicry And Witty Parody Of The Ottoman Bureaucratic Prose, The Book Of Devices Is Anar At His Imaginative Best. One Cannot Help But Wonder How A Twenty-first-century Author Can Dwell In The Past With Such Ease And Come Back To The Present, As In A Borgesian Parable, With A Cabinet Of Dreamy Curiosities.
The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
A Professor Of Medicine Reveals How Technology Like Wireless Internet, Individual Data, And Personal Genomics Can Be Used To Save Lives. Part I. Setting The Foundation. 1. The Digital Landscape : Cult...ivating A Data-driven, Participatory Culture -- 2. The Orientation Of Medicine Today : Population Versus Individual -- 3. To What Extent Are Consumers Empowered? : Clicks And Tricks -- Part Ii. Capturing The Data. 4. Physiology : Wireless Sensors -- 5. Biology : Sequencing The Genome -- 6. Anatomy : From Imaging To Printing Organs -- 7. Electronic Health Records And Health Information Technology -- 8. The Convergence Of Human Data Capture -- Part Iii. The Impact Of Homo Digitus. 9. Doctors With Plasticity? -- 10. Rebooting The Life Science Industry -- 11. Homo Digitus And The Individual. Eric Topol. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between
A Critical Care Doctor's Riveting Stories About What It Means To Be Saved By Modern Medicine--jacket Flap. You Can Stop Humming Now -- Ten Percent -- Life On Battery -- Nightmares After The Icu -- Eme...rgence -- Where The Bridge Ends -- Networking For A Kidney -- An Unexpected Adulthood -- How It Begins. Daniela Lamas.
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age
The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare’s #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is ...too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare’s ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization – until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital. Yet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, it dawned on them that something was deeply wrong. Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of America’s leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic, despite a state-of-the-art computerized prescribing system? How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absence of an electronic medical record as a major selling point? Logically enough, we’ve pinned the problems on clunky software, flawed implementations, absurd regulations, and bad karma. It was all of those things, but it was also something far more complicated. And far more interesting . . . Written with a rare combination of compelling stories and hard-hitting analysis by one of the nation’s most thoughtful physicians, The Digital Doctor examines healthcare at the dawn of its computer age. It tackles the hard questions, from how technology is changing care at the bedside to whether government intervention has been useful or destructive. And it does so with clarity, insight, humor, and compassion. Ultimately, it is a hopeful story. "We need to recognize that computers in healthcare don’t simply replace my doctor’s scrawl with Helvetica 12," writes the author Dr. Robert Wachter. "Instead, they transform the work, the people who do it, and their relationships with each other and with patients. . . . Sure, we should have thought of this sooner. But it’s not too late to get it right." This riveting book offers the prescription for getting it right, making it essential reading for everyone – patient and provider alike – who cares about our healthcare system.
Doctors: The Biography of Medicine
How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as r...enowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth.Through the centuries, the men and women Who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human people but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine — told through the lives of the physician-scientists whose deeds and determination paved the way. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery. Says The New York Times, "Doctors can be warmly recommended. Dr. Nuland succeeds in bringing his subjects vividly to life, and he leaves you with a much better understanding of what they achieved." Publishers Weekly To tell the story of medicine since Hippocrates and Galen, Nuland, a surgeon and faculty member of the Yale School of Medicine, focuses on the personalities and careers of medical innovators since the 16th century who epitomized the scientific climate and culture of their period. His enthusiastic and anecdote-rich narrative ranges from Vesalius, whose magnificently illustrated text on anatomy reflected the Renaissance rediscovery of the human body, to Barnard's high-tech heart transplants and other organ-replacement surgery of today. Medical landmarks include Harvey's charting of the circulatory system, Laennec's invention of the diagnostic stethoscope, and the discovery of germs and antisepsis by Pasteur and Lister. Nuland also notes contributions by Americans (Halsted and Cushing among them), as well as advances in transfusions, anesthesia, medical training and surgery. Having documented the transition of doctors from personal healers to reductionist technicians concerned primarily with disease, he welcomes efforts by today's physicians to return to a more humanistic approach. (May)
Solid State Electronic Devices
* 15876-6, Streetman, Solid State ElectronicDevices, 4/E *Engineers and scientists whodeal with electronics must continually be involvedin professional up-dating and self-education inorder to keep abr...east of new devices andprocesses. This modern introduction to existingsolid state electronic devices surveys thestate-of-the-art in theory, applications, and thelatest devices. It discusses both silicon andsemiconductors -- to reflect their continuinggrowth in importance for emerging optoelectronicand high-speed device applications.First reviews the nature ofsemiconductors and conduction processes in solids;then describes the p-n junction and some of itsapplications and the principles of transistoroperation and their application to integratedcircuits; and concludes by exploring theapplications of the theory of junctions andconduction processes to lasers, switching devices,and microwave devices. Includes substantivepractice problems and reading lists ofprofessional literature for both introductory andquantitative treatments of selected topics.For practicing engineers andscientists who want to update their knowledge ofmodern electronics for a fuller understanding ofthe current literature on new devices andapplications. Booknews New edition of a widely used introductory textbook which provides readers with an understanding of existing devices and develops the tools for understanding future devices and applications. Coverage includes the basics of semiconductor materials and conduction processes in solids required to understand p-n junctions, transistors, and other devices, and definition of terms and concepts as they relate to a broad range of devices. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Accidental Medical Discoveries: Tales of Tenacity, Sagacity, and Plain Dumb Luck
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Surgical Recall
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The Danger Within Us: America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It
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