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Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology

Klaus Wolff, Richard. Johnson, Richard Suurmond

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Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

"...should serve as a standard against which all future atlases will be measured..."* .
-New England Journal of Medicine, review of third edition.

. �...an excellent resource for all health care providers...".
-Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practioners, review of third edition.

. The best selling dermatology atlas in the medical market place! This unique combination of text, clinical reference, and color atlas features the best quality and most varied photographs of skin conditions important to any health care professional. Features consistent 2-page disease coverage format with description on left and photos on the right..

. NEW TO THIS EDITION.
*MORE photographs � more than 100 new illustrations, many focusing on conditions affecting people of color.
*MORE user friendly � color tabbing system for quick retrieval .
*NEW list of related web sites for physicians and patients at the end of diseases.
*NEW full-color schematic drawings of pathogenesis added to each section.
*NEW section on Bioterrorism

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology

Bertram G. Katzung

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Total reviews: 34 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Basic & Clinical Pharmacology 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

While most of my students would not find this excellent work "basic", it is an outstanding adjunct to any healthcare professional's library. The chapters are well structured and the information is up to date. The illustrations have improved over the years and are mated well with the text.
In all, this is a worthwhile text for anyone studying pharmacology or a useful resource.

Still the Best Basic Text 5 out of 5 stars.
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Over the years I have purchased many editions of this classic text and have never been disappointed. Years ago I sat in Dr. Katzung's classes when he was a young man (and I was younger!) This book is invaluable because of its varied content--1. background physiology which is so important when one needs to review and keep up-to-date on new developments, 2. comparisons of chemical structures as new products come onto the market and 3. summary tables showing the different characteristics of the various drugs in any drug group and classification. This is the one clinical pharmacology text I wouldn't be without.

Editorial Review:

This valuepack includes a copy of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, 9/e and USMLE Road Map Pharmacology, 2/e packaged together with a $10 discount built into the price. A valuable resource with two proven resources that will forward the comprehension of material and provide excellent USMLE test preparation tools.

Clinician's Thesaurus, 4th Edition: The Guidebook for Writing Psychological Reports

Edward L. Zuckerman

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Clinician's Thesaurus, 6th Edition: The Guide to Conducting Interviews and Writing Psychological Reports (Clinician's Toolbox, T 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

The format of this book is a little tricky, and it took me a few days to gain a comprehensive overview. However, this book does offer a lot of good information about the assessment and treatment plan writing process, including some examples. All in all, a useful book to add to your home library as a reference guide if you are a worker in the mental health field, or student.

Very good for ideas 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is an easy reference book for writing psych-evals and residential school reports. Great for jogging your memory when you think you have run out of words...However, I bought the accompanying CD, it is not in any way helpful...

Great 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

The book was in excellent condition as stated, and arrived a day or two later than normal, but that was fine.

Editorial Review:

Updated and expanded to be fully compatible with the DSM-IV, this popular guidebook is designed to facilitate and improve the writing of psychological reports. In a highly accessible format, it provides an exhaustive checklist of words and phrases that enables clinicians to quickly select the appropriate terms to describe almost every clinical situation.

2009 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide

Amy M Karch

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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A comprehensive, annual guide for practicing nurses and nursing students, 2009 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide provides quick A-to-Z access to current, vital drug information. The book has complete monographs on about 800 common drugs and summaries of key information on about 350 less commonly used drugs in the appendices. Complete monographs contain generic and trade names; pronunciations; pregnancy risk category; controlled substance schedule (if appropriate); drug classes; therapeutic actions; indications; contraindications and cautions; available forms; dosages; pharmacokinetics; IV facts (if appropriate); adverse effects; interactions; and nursing considerations, including assessment, interventions, and teaching points. The book also has a 32-page full-color photoguide to pills and capsules for easy reference and 25 appendices that summarize key clinical information. A companion Website offers 200 drug monographs and patient-teaching aids. A Canadian version of the book is endorsed by the Canadian Nursing Students' Association. The 2009 edition will be the sixth straight edition available in a Canadian version carrying this endorsement.

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills

Russell L. Blaylock

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Total reviews: 56 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

One for your library 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This was a great book, a bit hard for a non scientific person, but still great. It is well written by a very knowledgeable person that seems to care. It should be Oprah's book of the month. It you eat, have kids or are concerned about health, then this is the book for you. I do have to warn you, some parts are pretty scary. It was amazing to find out all of the things the government doesn't tell us about our food supply. I can speak to this because I was diagnosed with MS in March of 07' and now I'm aspartame and MS free. I gave up that poison a few months ago and my MS went away within 2 weeks!!!

Real-life experience backs this up 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have had this book for many years and recently skimmed it again. I bought it during the years when my husband was having bizarre symptoms after eating almost any kind of food. He visited many doctors and specialists, and an allergist finally suggested that it might be MSG and referred him to a dietician (who was useless). Since then, we've been on our own fighting this, and this book lifted the fog of ignorance!

I'm an engineer, a conservative and a skeptic. I was not ready to believe that there is "bad stuff" in our everyday food. But based on my husband's experiences, the empirical evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. His symptoms initially only occurred after lunch but not after dinner, even if he ate the same thing. How does this make sense? Dr. Blaylock explains the mystery by pointing out how hypoglycemia exacerbates the effects of glutamate. I was ecstatic when I understood the phenomenon. My husband has a tendency, common in his family, toward hypoglycemia. With lunch being his first meal of the day, he was already in a hypoglycemic state and highly susceptible to the effects of MSG. By dinnertime, his brain had more glucose and was better able to clear the glutamate. Based on this theory, when he accidentally eats MSG and starts to experience the effects, he consumes a candy bar or sugared soda and it lessens the symptoms. (Dessert can be good for you!)

The explanations in this book are the only ones that satisfactorily explain what I see my husband go through every day. He has an immediate and recognizable response to glutamate, which makes confirmation of those theories simple, if not painless.

There is one hypothesis in the book that is contradicted by my husband's experience. He can consume aspartame (diet soda) with none of the effects that he experiences from glutamate.

I wonder how many people are capable of making the lifestyle changes required to avoid glutamate? If you don't have a detector (like my poor husband) to tell you what food does and does not have glutamate in it, you must avoid all prepared food that doesn't have an ingredient list. Yes, sadly, glutamate is that prevalent in our food.

Physicians Desk Reference 2008: Hospital/Library Version (Physicians' Desk Reference (Pdr))

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Good drug reference except for the "self destruct" function 4 out of 5 stars.
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The electronic version of the PDR is more convenient than hauling a huge book around, however you should be aware that the CD-ROM "expires" and will cease to function after about a year. This "auto destruct" function is supposedly to protect against the risks of using outdated information, however it seems as likely it is in place to ensure a revenue stream for Thomson publishing; all the printed PDRs obviously don't disintegrate into dust a year after publication.

One plus side however, the CD-ROM includes much more information than the printed book including:

The PDR Main Edition (the main volume, what most people mean when they say "PDR")
The PDR for Nonprescription Drugs, Dietary Supplements, and Herbs
The PDR for Ophthalmic Medicines
The PDR Drug Interactions and Side Effects System

If you are considering purchase, be aware the 2009 version will be published on December 1st, 2008 (ISBN-10 1563637413).

Editorial Review:

* Today, PDR is considered the standard prescription drug reference and can be found in virtually every physician's office, hospital, and pharmacy 3,000+ pages containing information on more than 4,000 prescription drugs * New format allows dramatically improved readability and easier access to the information * Authoritative source of FDA-approved prescription drug information for over 60 years * Includes clinical pharmacology, indications and usage, contraindications, drug warnings, precautions, adverse reactions, overdose, dosage and administration * Contains more than 2,000 full-size, full-colour photographs cross-referenced to the product information

Webster's New World Medical Dictionary, Fully Revised and Updated

WebMD

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Webster Medical Dictionary 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

The book has helped me out a lot with my studies. I am studing medical assisting and coding and the dictionary comes in handy more than i thought it would! thanks alot

Heather

Webster's Medical Dictionary 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

This book looks to be a very complete dictionary, and will serve my purpose well as a student.

Great Book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have to say this is my first medical dictornary I have bought. I work in preauthorization in a medical facility and it comes in very handy. It's paperback and it's not too big so I can jsut it in my bag. Also ordering from Amazon, it cheaper and quick delivery to my door step. Great job Amazon!

Editorial Review:

When your doctor uses terms like intraductal carcinoma or akathisia, do you understand and can you ask the right questions? If you, like most Americans, are taking a more active role in your family’s healthcare, the fully revised and updated Webster’s New World™ Medical Dictionary, Third Edition will help you understand and communicate your medical needs when it matters the most. Written by doctors and the experts at WebMD, this edition includes 8500 entries, including 500 new terms, a vitamin appendix, and a companion website to give you access to medical language.

Roget International Thesaurus Index 5E (Roget's International Thesaurus Indexed Edition)

Robert L. Chapman

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Total reviews: 53 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Roget's International Thesaurus®, fifth edition, is the original -- now completely expanded, reorganized, revised and updated -- the definitive thesaurus for the 21st century.While retaining Dr. Peter Mark Roget's fundamental and brilliant category concept which groups all synonyms, antonyms and related words together for quick and easy comparison without all the needless repetition and cross referencing of alphabetical thesauruses, this new fifth edition is:the most up-to-date -- with 1073 categories including 31 entirely new ones concerning such topics as the body, fitness and exercise, substance abuse, all kinds of sports, books, motion pictures and computer sciencedefinitive -- based on extensive word association research into how words are actually used, resulting in the most current reflection of the language today and including the latest phrases, slang and commonly used foreign terms the most comprehensive thesaurus available -- 325,000 words and phrasesan invaluable source book with many additional features -- boldface type for the most commonly used words in a category, usage and foreign language labels throughout and a unique and useful feature of word lists including lists for measurements, gods and goddesses, manias and phobias, groups and movements, state mottos and moretime-tested -- this definitive, updated edition retains the original time-tested format that allows much more depth of information

Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In

Anahad O'Connor

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The New York Times’s intrepid health reporter investigates the truth about sex, eating, exercise, and other health conundrums

 

For more than two years, the New York Times’s science and health columnist Anahad O’Connor has tracked down the facts, fictions, and occasional fuzziness of old wives’ tales, conventional-wisdom cures, and other medical mysteries. Now in this lively and fun book, he opens up his case files to disclose the experts’ answers on everything, from which of your bad habits you can indulge (yo-yo dieting does not mess up your metabolism and sitting too close to the television does not hurt your eyes) to what foods actually pack the punch advertised (you can lay off the beet juice!).

A compendium of answers to the curious and nagging questions of how to keep healthy, Never Shower in a Thunderstorm will provide guidance and amusement to anyone who has ever wondered if the mosquitoes really are attacking her more than everyone else. (Yes, they are.)

The Only Ekg Book You'll Ever Need

Malcolm S. Thaler

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Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Terrific 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I've tried Dale Dubin on three different occasions and always gave up midway. This book is easy to read, keeps up your interest, doesn't clog you with unnecessary information, has a good summary at the end of every chapter, good clinical examples are provided and the best part is that it is quite funny. I actually laughed out aloud where he says wolff-parkinson-white and lown-ganong-levine aren't the names of lawfirms!
I managed to finish it in two weeks and it is refreshing to come across an ekg book that doesn't make you want to take extended break times!
Only thing is I wish the author had used more arrows to point out the specific abnormalities and that the last section of practice EKGS was a little more comprehensive.
But I think it is a good resource for residents and students. And I would pick it over Dale Dubin anyday.

Editorial Review:

This popular and practical text presents all the information needed to be able to read EKGs efficiently and accurately. It is designed for medical students in ICM courses or anyone directly involved in patient care in the modern hospital, whether student, teacher, or practitioner. This edition includes more case studies, and each EKG is discussed in its proper clinical context.