On Call : A Doctor’s Days and Nights in Residency
On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency—wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called “Doctor” for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine just after graduating from medical school. This series of loosely interconnected scenes from the author’s medical training concludes her residency three years later.During her first week as a student on the medical wards, Dr. Transue watched someone come into the emergency room in cardiac arrest and die. Nothing like this had ever happened to her before-it was a long way from books and labs. So she began to record her experiences as she gained confidence putting her book knowledge to work.The stories focus on the patients Dr. Transue encountered in the hospital, ER and clinic; some are funny and others tragic. They range in scope from brief interactions in the clinic to prolonged relationships during hospitalization. There is a man newly diagnosed with lung cancer who is lyrical about his life on a sunny island far away, and a woman, just released from a breathing machine after nearly dying, who sits up and demands a cup of coffee.Though the book has a great deal of medical content, the focus is more on the stories of the patients’ lives and illnesses and the relationships that developed between the patients and the author, and the way both parties grew in the course of these experiences.Along the way, the book describes the life of a resident physician and reflects on the way the medical system treats both its patients and doctors. On Call provides a window into the experience of patients at critical junctures in life and into the author’s own experience as a new member of the medical profession.
Swanson’s Family Practice Review: A Problem-oriented Approach
Everything you need for exam preparation is right at your fingertips Inside, you’ll find hundreds of new and thoroughly revised questions that assess the latest diagnostic methods, medications, and management techniques. It’s simply the best way to keep you absolutely up to date with all of the concepts relevant to primary health and family practice. Take advantage of the opportunity to now earn up to 79.5 hours of valuable AMA Physician’s Recognition Award Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits from Kaplan Medical! Simply follow the instructions in the book to apply for CME credit upon completion of each chapter or the full text.
Pharmacotherapy
The gold standard text for the therapeutics course mandatory in pharmacy schools. Now in its sixth edition, this classic text continues its long-standing tradition of offering unparalleled guidance in the development of pharmaceutical care plans. The book provides a unique process of thinking about pharmacotherapy the process which uses evidence-based approaches to the drug treatment of diseases. Features: *FREE Online Resource Center for professors and students – study materials, web chapters, questions and answers, and updates *NEW Key Concepts begin each chapter *Excellent use of algorithms, tables, and charts – provides clear recommendations * Clinical Controversies in the treatment sections of disease-oriented chapters
Pathology: Board Review Series
This top-selling title is now in its Second Edition. An excellent preparatory review for course exams or the USMLE Step 1, the chapters parallel most standard pathology texts plus provide a review test at the end of each chapter. Topics covered include general and basic pathology, major concepts of disease processes, and systemic pathology surveying principal disorders of each organ system. A comprehensive examination at the end of the book contains 500 questions in USMLE format. New features include key associations throughout the text that emphasize “high-yield” information for the USMLE review and a new chapter entitled Interpretation of Diagnosis Tests (laboratory statistics).