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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.
Critical (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #7)
Angela Dawson, M.D., appears to have it all: at the age of thirty-seven, she owns a fabulous New York City apartment, a stunning seaside house on Nantucket, and enjoys the perks of her prosperous life...style. But her climb to the top was rough, marked by a troubled childhood, a failed marriage, and the devastating blow of bankruptcy as a primary-care internist. Painfully aware of the role of economics in modern life, particularly in the health-care field, Angela returned to school to earn an MBA. Armed with a shiny new degree and blessed with determination, intelligence, and impeccable timing, Angela founded a start-up company, Angels Healthcare, then took it public. With her controlling interest in three busy specialty hospitals in New York City and plans for others in Miami and Los Angeles, Angela's future looked very bright. Then a surge of drug-resistant staph infections in all three hospitals devastates Angela's carefully constructed world. Not only do the infections result in patient deaths, but the fatalities also cause stock prices to tumble, leaving market analysts wondering if Angela will be able to hold her empire together. New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton are naturally intrigued by the uptick in staph-related post-procedure deaths. Aside from their own professional curiosity, there's a personal stake as well: Laurie and Jack are newly married, and Jack is facing surgery to repair a torn ligament at Angels Orthopedic Hospital. Despite Jack's protests, Laurie can't help investigating-opening a Pandora's box of corporate intrigue that threatens not just her livelihood, but her life with Jack as well.
Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories
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The Medical Detectives
In Each True Story, Local Health Authorities And Epidemiologists Race Against Time To Find The Clue To An Unknown And Possibly Fatal Disease. Eleven Blue Men -- A Pig From Jersey -- A Game Of Wild Ind...ians -- The Incurable Wound -- Ch₃co₂c₆h₄co₂h (aspirin) -- The Liberace Room -- Impression : Essentially Normal -- A Swim In The Nile -- The Orange Man -- The Dead Mosquitoes -- Something A Little Unusual -- A Man Named Hoffman -- Three Sick Babies -- The West Branch Study -- The Huckleby Hogs -- All I Could Do Was Stand In The Woods -- As Empty As Eve -- Two Blue Hands -- Antipathies -- Sandy -- A Rainy Day On The Vineyard -- Live And Let Live -- The Fumigation Chamber -- A Lean Cuisine -- The Foulest And Nastiest Creatures That Be. Berton Roueché. The Classic Collection Of Award-winning Medical Investigative Reporting--cover. All Of The Material In This Book Has Previously Appeared In The New Yorker In Somewhat Different Form--t.p. Verso. Includes Index.
Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine
Edited By Marc S. Sabatine. Pocket Notebook. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
The Universal Journalist
Irrespective of language or culture, good journalists share a common commitment to the search for truth, often in far from ideal circumstances. With this assertion, David Randall emphasises that good ...journalism isn't just about universal objectives: it must also involve the acquisition of a range of skills that will empower journalists to operate in an industry where ownership, technology and information is constantly changing. This acclaimed handbook challenges old attitudes, procedures and techniques of journalism where they are seen as cynical and sloppy. This fully updated edition includes new sections on handling numbers and statistics, computer assisted reporting and writing for the Web, as well as an extensively revised chapter on what makes a good reporter, and a new section on sources. Now more than ever this handbook is an invaluable guide to the 'universals' of good journalistic practice for professional and trainee journalists worldwide.
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)
What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey
do Sleek High-tech Hospitals Teach More About Medicine And Less About Humanity? Do Doctors Ever Lose Their Tolerance For Suffering? With Sensitive Observation And Graceful Prose, This Book Explores So...me Of The Difficult And Deeply Personal Questions A 23-year-old Doctor Confronts With Her Very First Dying Patient, And Continues To Struggle With As She Strives To Become A Good Doctor. In Her Travels, The Doctor Attends To Terminal Illness, Aids, Tuberculosis, And Premature Birth In Small Rural Communities Throughout The World. what Patients Taught Me Is A Compelling Memoir Of The Emotional Complexity Of Treating Patients When Their Lives Hang In The Balance. kirkus Reviews straightforward Account Of Young's Time In A Program That Apprentices Students To Rural Physicians. The Author, Now A Staff Physician At The University Of Washington, Was A Medical Student There When She Learned Of Wwami, A Program That Exposes Medical Students To Rural Medicine In Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, And Idaho. Her First Placement Was A Month-long Tour Of Duty In A Remote Eskimo Outpost Where The Standard Garb For Doctors Consisted Of Jeans, Hiking Boots, And A Stethoscope; Her First Lessons Came Mainly From Watching And Listening. Subsequently, She Did Hospital Rotations In Pocatello, Idaho (pediatrics), And Missoula, Montana (internal Medicine). With Each Assignment, Young's Responsibilities Increased And She Became More Of A Participant In Patient Care. She Learned The Art Of Connecting With Patients And The Importance Of Listening To Their Stories. By The End Of Her Third Year, In Love With Medicine As She Had Seen It Practiced And Yearning To Move Beyond The Rural Pacific Northwest, She Took A Residency Position In South Africa. The Lessons There Were Harsher. With Resources Extremely Limited, Hiv Skyrocketing, And Tuberculosis And Diabetes Widespread, Young Found That Doctors Had To Choose Whom To Help; The Choice Was Often Simply To Help Those Who Had A Chance To Survive. Overwhelmed By Disease And Death, She Nevertheless Completed Her Residency And Returned As A Full-fledged General Internist To Seattle, Where She Took On The Care Of Patients In A Community Of Refugees And The Homeless. Wwami, Young Avers, Gave Her Intense Glimpses Into The Human Experience And Taught Her That The Patient's Story, The Most Human Element In Medical Practice, Is Often Thehighest Reward Of Doctoring. As She Puts It, Sometimes I Enter A Story And Find I Can Bring A Little Light And Relief To Human Suffering.welcome Evidence That The Art Of Medicine Is Still Being Taught And Practiced In A World Where Technology Has All The Glamour. Agent: Max Gartenberg
Letters to a Young Doctor
Highly candid, insightful, and unexpectedly humorous essays on both the brutality and the beauty of the profession in which saving and losing lives is all in a day’s work. A timeless collection ...by the “best of the writing surgeons” (Chicago Tribune). With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition.
Kill or Cure: An Illustrated History of Medicine
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