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Ferri's Guide has long been an indispensable manual for 3rd and 4th year medical students to use during their clinical rotations. It is used increasingly by 1st and 2nd year students as well in programs where students begin clinical work early. It is a general manual of internal medicine with a particular emphasis on differential diagnosis.

There is less information in this book on pathophysiology than in the Wash U Manual, but there is more emphasis on practical clinical information. Tables are used throughout to summarize important material.

Dr. Ferri has responded to reviews by medical students to make the book more useful. This edition will include expanded material on Differential Diagnosis, with an additional 78 clinical topics. There is a new section on diagnostic imaging of the medical patient and an expanded section on dermatology. Other chapters have been updated to provide more current information, and the laboratory section has been amended to list the causes of lab test abnormalities from most to least common. ... Read more

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Buy this Book!
By far and away the best book for the fleging internal medicine resident or even a 4th year student. The "subtleties" of medicine is clearly not the goal of a labcoat reference such as this. Rather, it is a reasonably comprehensiive, easily accessible, and up-to-date guide for day to day decision making on the wards. It does not replace Harrison's, and it won't make you a brilliant physician, but for quick reminders of everyday resident level problems, it's hard to beat. It's actually quite easy to see why it's better than the prosaic and vague Washington Manual (Yawn).

The best quick medicine reference!
This is by far THE best quick reference for the Internal Medicine resident and the med student on a medicine rotation. I'm about to order my 3rd copy. It beats the Wash Manual hands down, because it ALWAYS has what I'm looking for - differential diagnosis, pertinent clinical findings and lab values, and treatment. I especially like the section on differential diagnosis of abnormal lab values (what else causes peripheral eosinophilia besides asthma?). And, if you truly want to add extra weight to your lab coat and make your shoulders ache even more than they already do, this does fit in your pocket (Wash manual doesn't)!

To the publisher
The book is wonderfull. Just about everything a resident could ask for in one source. The material is carefully chosen and explained in a straight forward easy to understand format. I like it so much I went ahead and bought the new edition. My only dissapointment is the spiral style that is still being used and how flaky the pages are. It is not meant to last very long. Maybe that is the intent. Shame on Mosby! This is one area that deserves serious improvement!

Julian DiAvnati, M.D.

A rare find
Bottom line is that this pocketbook will give you practical, useable information on how to manage patients with certain diseases. It's only weakness, if any, is that it does focus mainly on disease entities rather than presentations (eg it won't give you the workup for hematuria). However it compensates for this by giving you a list of differentials for such presentations. I haven't found a pocketbook of comparable quality and value for use on the wards.

Med Students, Buy it NOW
I am a transitional intern doing my gen med rotation. I was introduced to this book by my intern 2 years ago when I was a student during the first week of my gen med rotation. It was great then, and it is great now. I hate carrying stuff in my white coat, especially books of this size. But I refer to it constantly during the day. In rounds, in the ED while working up a patient, while reviewing a patient's labs. Numerous times each day. I have two students with me now, and I've convinced them after one week that they should buy this book. It's that good.

Details, ie, what it offers.

DDX, there is a DDX section in the front for common presenting symptoms. This is perhaps the books only weakness. It is too scant. Many common symptoms aren't included. The differentials offered are adequate, but the section could be expanded.

Systems Based Chapters. CV, Pulm, GI, ID,Neuro, Renal etc. The stuff you see everday on the wards is reviewed very well, with signs, symptoms, diagnostic workup and treatment. These chapters are not everything you need to know. I do more reading at night on specific ailments my patients are presenting with. But in the ED when you are accepting a thyroid storm, CVA, GIB, whatever, its there and it will get you through the admission and the evening until morning rounds with the attending.

Another great feature is the section that helps to interpret many labs you may order. Elevated, normal or low anything, and it provides a great differential. It can make you look smart on rounds.

Finally, there is a short formulary in the back, which I never refer to since I have both pharmacopaeia (spelling?) and epocrates.

This book is great for med students and transitional interns. Prelims and categoricals probably can pass on this. I'd say the next step is the little red book put out by Stanford (Standford Internal Medicine pocket guide? Not sure of the name.) It is much more compact, concise, etc. with citations to the literature. But if you are a med student, buy it NOW, before your gen med rotation.

Good Luck. ... Read more

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This eagerly anticipated text continues the tradition of the breakthrough first edition of the Manual of Voice Treatment.Dr. Andrews has written a practical, accessible guide to the best practices in voice treatment, providing an abundance of clinically applicable material, describing various voice disorders, introducing the most frequently used approaches to treating voice disorders, and explaining the numerous treatment selection rationales. ... Read more

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Extensively revised and updated throughout, with seven entirelynew chapters and the insights of 31 new contributors, the Third Editionreflects the explosive growth of information in the dynamic field ofimmunology. Coverage includes recent groundbreaking discoveries onmolecular events that regulate the immune response, antigen processingand presentation, cytokines, and immune responses to infectiousagents.Six chapters in the Third Edition focus on completely newtopics--immunoglobulin class switching; somatic mutation and affinitymaturation; immunosuppression; and immunity to viruses, intracellularbacteria, and extracellular bacteria. Antigen processing andpresentation, which were only touched on in the previous edition, arenow described in detail in a separate chapter. Coverage of the role ofspecific cytokines in the immune response has been greatly expanded.Chapters on HIV infection, primary immunodeficiency diseases, allergyand hypersensitivity, and immunoparasitology have been rewritten by newcontributors who are preeminent authorities on these diseases. Allchapters include updated references. ... Read more

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excellent
the next best thing to actually following the literature. a great way to get a background in a less familiar topic.

Fundamental, not necessarily introductory
This book is in many rspects the Immunology equivalent of the G&G pharmacology bible. Or in other words: if you do Immunology for a living, this book should always be within reach. Just like G&G's book, Fundamental Immunology started out in the same way the "encyclopedia" started in the Age of Enlightment: a compendium of all the knowledge available. With the exponential expansion of both Pharmacology and Immunology, these disciplines no longer fit in one, ten, or even a hundred volumes each, and tough choices have to be made. In Paul's FI, these choices are very much geared towards the professional, and far less so to the student. Yet, many of the subjects are treated in a way that not only incorperates much of the up to date details, but also gives thorough treatment of the fundamental concepts behind them. Thus, this book should also be the text of choice for those students that have sufficient tutoring resources available to guide them through the maze of the wild and wonderful world of Immunology.

It can be used as a dictionary.
It is not recommended as a text book, but is as a dictionary. Because it contains many informations about immunology and few illastlations.

Not the best book on the subject
Overly complex in exposition. Insufficiently illustrated. Represents an NIH viewpoint, not the best in science. Does not relate the molecular details to the cellular interactions sufficiently. ... Read more

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Today a brain scan reveals our thoughts, moods, and memories asclearly as an X-ray reveals our bones. We can actually observe a person's brainregistering a joke or experiencing a painful memory. Drawing on the latestimaging technology and the expertise of distinguished scientists, Rita Carterexplores the geography of the human brain. Her writing is clear, accessible,witty, and the book's 150 illustrations--most in color--present an illustratedguide to that wondrous, coconut-sized, wrinkled gray mass we carry inside ourheads.

Mapping the Mind charts the way human behavior and culture have been molded bythe landscape of the brain. Carter shows how our personalities reflect thebiological mechanisms underlying thought and emotion and how behavioraleccentricities may be traced to abnormalities in an individual brain. Obsessionsand compulsions seem to be caused by a stuck neural switch in a region thatmonitors the environment for danger. Addictions stem from dysfunction in thebrain's reward system. Even the sense of religious experience has been linked toactivity in a certain brain region. The differences between men and women'sbrains, the question of a "gay brain," and conditions such as dyslexia, autism,and mania are also explored.

Looking inside the brain, writes Carter, we see that actions follow from ourperceptions, which are due to brain activity dictated by a neuronal structureformed from the interplay between our genes and the environment. Withoutsidestepping the question of free will, Carter suggests that future generationswill use our increasing knowledge of the brain to "enhance those mentalqualities that give sweetness and meaning to our lives, and to eradicate thosethat are destructive." ... Read more

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Excellent way to "catch up" on brain research
Rita Carter and Christopher Firth have put their heads together and come up with a very comprehensive yet accessible review of brain research. Carter's style, backed up with Firth's broad and deep knowledge of the field has yielded a most enjoyable and useful book.

Having followed many of the individual areas of research in the popular scientific press as they unfolded, I had a patchwork understanding of what has been done in the past ten or so years, especially since MRI and PET scans became common, but I did not have a complete and lucid picture.

Carter, with the support of Firth and many distinguished researchers in the field providing Cameo vignettes throughout, succeed in offering the layperson having little more than an interest in the field, an excellent read and a good high level reference source.

The overall design and illustrations in the large format softcover edition is very attractive and encourages reading.

I highly recommend this to anyone vaguely interested in how the mind works from a neuroelectrochemical perspective as well as from an anecdotal, human perspective. This is not a psychology book nor what I think of as a traditional cognitive science book and is much the better for it.

(insert eye-caching title here)
I bought this book a while ago, thinking it would help me later with studies etc. I picked it up one night and didn't put it down until two hours later, I was enthralled! Never before had the brain so intrigued me. Mapping the Mind has enough of a balance between the scientific jargon and the anecdotes to really inspire the reader. With help from diagrams, this book explains several mental disorders (such as depression, autistic children and the split-brain phenomenon) with the appropriate physiological explanation. My knowledge of not only the physiology of the brain but also other parts of the body was greatly enhanced by this book and it has led me on to read more about the brain and psychology. I realise this review appears to have a litle too many superlatives in it but if anyone else out there has read Rita Carter's Mapping the Mind, I'd be surprised if you didn't agree with me. (oh, and by the way, it managed to arouse this much interest in me and I'm 14)
Happy reading, Katie.

Not what i expected but wonderful
A book by an award winning graphics artist. i figured it would be a bunch of pictures of the brain with some text. Nope, it's a ton of text with a fair number of pictures (maybe 1 per 2 pages). Wonderful illustrations but it's hardly a picture book.

i'm a graduate student who builds software that mimics the human mind. i'm not a neurologist so i can't claim to review this book the way an expert would, nor can i claim to be particularly interested in the neurology and biology. But the information in here, which explains what all these parts do and what the impact is if they get damaged was really useful to be as a computational cognitive modeler.

So what do i like about this book? Two things. First, it's pretty comprehensive and integrates the information well. It hits most of the significant parts of the brain and explains the relationships between them. Second, it's really easy to read, which is great when you have readers like me with a minimal background in this stuff. i've since read a lot of books on psychology, cognitive science and neurology. Few are as easy to understand as this one and few put all the information together as this one.

Note that this book focuses on functionality and puts relatively less emphasis on mechanism. Yes, synapses, sheathing, neurotransmitters and reuptake are covered, but don't expect in-depth coverage of the role of glial cells or calcium influx. This is not your MCAT study guide and isn't a references for neurosurgeons doing their residency. But it does have some good information for people who work in or near the field and is easy enough and enjoyable enough for anyone of practically any age to read

Great Reference Book, Very Pedagogical
I started my interest in neurobiology in December 1998 after reading a discussion by Rita Carter in the FT showing that rational behavior under uncertainty and rational decision making can come from a defect in the amygdala. Since then I've had five years of reading more technical material (Gazzaniga et al is perhaps the most complete reference on cognitive neuroscience) and thought that I transcended this book.
But it was not so. I picked up this book again last weekend and was both astonished at a) the ease of reading , b) the clarity of the text and c) the breadth of the approach! I was looking for a refresher as I am trying to capture a general idea of the functioning of that black box and found exactly what I needed without the excess burden of prominent textbooks. Very pedagogical.
I read here and there comments by neuroscientists dissing the book over small details perhaps invisible even to experts. I just realize that Carter should keep updating it, as it is invaluable in my suitcase when I travel! I do not conceal my suspicion of "science writers" and journalists more trained in communicating than understanding and usually shallow babblers but Carter is an exception. Perhaps the science of the mind requires breadth of knowledge that she has. She is a thinker in her own right not just a "medical journalist".

The matter that makes mind
_Mapping the Mind_ is a comfortable and engaging introduction into what is known so far about how the brain works. You will learn (or review) the different parts of the brain, their place in human evolution, and the role of each in the myriad of activities and abilities we all take for granted. Revealing case studies are cited of how damage to a particular part of the brain may impair the sufferer in a very specific and sometimes bizarre way. Carter poses pointed questions about human free will, and to what extent we really have such. This book is a good launchpad for further reading on the brain, e.g. by Damasio and Ramachandran.

The illustrations all have a surrealistic, computer-generated look about them which doesn't entirely appeal to me, but does help unify the overall page design. Most are clear, but for some it may take a while to establish the orientation - L to R, R to L, or looking up from underneath.

Actually, I would give this book four and a half stars; there are various glitches of editing, like repeated material in the same chapter, and some very minor typos and formatting quirks. And the prose takes on just a faint shade of purple here and there, in the spirit of Diane Ackerman (_A Natural History of the Senses_), though I realize this was part of Carter's effort at enhanced readability, and mostly it comes off OK.

Overall, this book is a good plunge to take if you're interested in yourself and why and how you do what you do - and who isn't? ... Read more

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This review is aimed at practicing internists and residents of INTERNAL MEDICINE who have surely been searching for a concise, outlined, and one-of-a-kind review of internal medicine in all of its subspecialties for the INTERNAL MEDICINE CERTIFICATION AND RECERTIFICATION EXAMS administered through the American Board of Internal Medicine.This book is concise, thorough, and fully-outlined, so you will clearly see the relationships between the concepts you’ll have to know.It also features tons of great MNEMONICS you’ll thank your lucky stars for.Speaking of stars, we know you’ll appreciate our ample use of formatting, especially the use of*** STARRED ITEMS ***to help call attention to particularly important material. Over the years, we’ve been blessed with tons of questions and answers from the boards that have been voluntarily submitted by physicians who have gone on to pass their boards, in their effort to help those "soldiers left behind"!You should know, then,!that this book is an excellent companion to the Frontrunners’ Internal Medicine 2004 Q&A REVIEW: Self-Assessment & Board Review, which features over 1200 Q&A to prepare you for battle.

We run promotions throughout the year, where you can actually get the Q&A book half-off with your Frontrunners’ syllabus when you call directly at: 866-MDBOARDS (866-632-6273) or 866-IMREVIEW (866-467-3843) and refer to promotional code #amznQ1/2off.Equally important, we offer a number of packages featuring all our T.O.P. (Take Out Package) board review books (includes these: Syllabus, 1200 Q&A book, Mnemonics book, and HIV and Blood Gas booklets for the boards--which are ALL of our printed board review materials), as well as our even more popular Audio Visuals CD packages for the Boards. Make sure you know all of our latest offerings and promotions. Call to find out about our various packages and ways to save OR for the most recent brochure featuring all of our offerings. We can even email it to you within minutes for your convenience or send it via snail mail. Currently, all AudioVisual packages automatically include all the TOP books (Syllabus, Q&A, Memory Aids, HIV and!ABGs for the Boards), and represent huge savings when you order directly. They're also ideal if you just can't make it out to our Weekend Marathon Reviews in California each August. If you’re a mnemonics fan (and who isn’t?), or you love the ones here, then you’ll definitely want to check out TURBO MNEMONICS FOR THE BOARDS! : Over 400 MEMORY AIDS to the Most Commonly Asked CLINICAL Material on the Medicine Boards!It features 100s of mnemonics that, we promise, will make your life a whole lot easier.At the same time these resources are outstanding study aids for medical students, residents, internists, and other health care professionals who simply want the best no-nonsense review of internal medicine. The course has been widely and enthusiastically received for its unconventional, no-nonsense approach to the review of internal medicine.Unfortunately, thousands of physicians, wanting to be board-certified, are simply unable to attend a formal board review course due to!time or geographic constraints.For those physicians especially this book will be a welcome review.

All major subsections of the exam have beenrepresented with each section bearing its own chapter. Aren’tyou tired ofreading and rereading (or even falling asleep!) amid long-winded paragraphs from standard textbooks that never make it clear what’s important to know for the exam?So were we, and that’s how this syllabus came into being. This book is completely outlined, so that the relationship between concepts is crystal clear—no more guessing! You’ll also find tons of key mnemonics you’ll definitely be using on your exam, along with contributive formatting through the use of bolds, underlining, italics, boxed-in points, and of course, the *** STARREDITEMS *** to help call your attention to particularly important material, that the boards like to ask--an outstanding way to capitalize on those last few hours before your exam.A thorough and realistically designedIndex section makes those look-ups, whether throughout your studies or just before your boards, a cinch!

Having said all this, we also realize that there are individuals who have, over the years, grown weary of tedious self-study and who want to take advantage of a sit-down, "feed-me" style of board review, with all the same core material, slides, cases, and more, even if the syllabus can come to them.For this reason we continue to offer our formal / sit-down board review course each year.This is an intensive, 18-hour, HIGH-YIELD-ITEMS-ONLY WEEKEND MARATHON REVIEW, offered each year in early August—ideal for most physicians who can’t break away during the week.For upcoming dates or to register for any of theseWEEKEND MARATHON REVIEWS, or to order 1) TURBO MNEMONICS FOR THE BOARDS, featuring > 400 anagrams and other mnemonics to markedly improve the efficiency of your board review studying; or 2) the Q&A REVIEW, featuringover 1200 realistic Q&A, see the "Quick Order Form" at the very end of this book or just call866-MDBOARDs (866-632-6273) NOW to order or find out more.Why make your studying any harder than it actually has to be?If you can’t make that weekend, the Audio CD Syllabus & Slide Shows for the Boards can be shipped out.You get the whole weekend, only without the added expense of hotel + airfair + tuition.

We’re confident that you’llfind this an outstanding resource for your upcoming board exam (as well as your day-to-day practice of Internal Medicine).Our greatest hope, however, is that we’ve shown you an easier way to passing your boards!

With best wishes for you,

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A MUST-HAVE
I couldn't make it out to Frontrunners' Weekend Marathon Review course, so got the syllabus instead. It was really outstanding. The syllabus went through all the key stuff you have to know for your I.M. cert boards and things that were all over the exam. The cherry on top was that, like the other reviewers, I got my Q&A book free when I called Frontrunners for my syllabus.

Superb I.M. Review Syllabus
I truly felt this was a superb review for the medicine boards, and my scores agree. I went thru everything once, then hit all the boxed-in points and starred items the 2nd and 3rd times. The starred items are all the key stuff that you gotta know and that were EVERYWHERE on my exam. Superb resource for the ABIM /internal medicine certification exam. My partner used it for her I.M. recert and also did extremely well. She had also attended the Frontrunners' Weekend Marathon Review and loved it.

EXCELLENT SYLLABUS! LOVED THE COURSE!
Very thorough, concise, well-organized. Great for the internal medicine I.M. boards. While I didn't get my Q&A for free, like some of the other reviewers, I did get my syllabus for free when I made it out to the review, which was a high-yield, dynamic review like nothing I'd seen before. Great slides. Dynamic lectures. Great memory aids. A major recommend from me!

Oustanding. WishI'd known about it earlier.
Great syllabus! I got my copy 1 week before the exam after my partner recommended it. I'm sure I got at least 30 points from the STARRED (*) items alone, which I scanned the day before. That's a must. The Q&A book was also truly excellent. Even better, my Q&A book was free when I called Frontrunners for my syllabus. Excellent resources if you're aiming to pass your I.M. boards. I only wish I'd known about it earlier.

HIGH YIELD FROM START TO FINISH
I thought the Syllabus was high yield throughout. I got at least 30 points on my IM boards from this source alone and another 20 or so from the Q&A companion. Even better, my partner and I got the Q&A book FREE when we ordered our syllabus through Frontrunners 866-mdboard number. So a definite recommend for all these reasons. ... Read more

Amazon.com

The works of neurologist Oliver Sacks have a special place in the swarm of mind-brain studies. He has done as much as anyone to make nonspecialists aware of how much diversity gets lumped under the heading of "the human mind."

The stories in An Anthropologist on Mars are medical case reports not unlike the classic tales of Berton Roueché in The Medical Detectives. Sacks's stories are of "differently brained" people, and they have the intrinsic human interest that spurred his book Awakenings to be re-created as a Robin Williams movie.

The title story in Anthropologist is that of autistic Temple Grandin, whose own book Thinking in Pictures gives her version of how she feels--as unlike other humans as a cow or a Martian. The other minds Sacks describes are equally remarkable: a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome, a painter who loses color vision, a blind man given the ambiguous gift of sight, artists with memories that overwhelm "real life," the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire, and a man with memory damage for whom it is always 1968.

Oliver Sacks is the Carl Sagan or Stephen Jay Gould of his field; his books are true classics of medical writing, of the breadth of human mentality, and of the inner lives of the disabled. --Mary Ellen Curtin ... Read more

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Headache? Just read about these poor folks
With the format and style of the earlier "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat", each chapter describing a patient suffering from a particularly unusual and often spectacular neurological disorder, Sacks successfully shows how poor our understanding of the functioning of our own minds really is. More than ever his primary focus is the human aspect of mental affliction, the emotional trauma involved, presumably so he can appeal to a wider audience. I feel that the earlier book actually has the best material and is certainly a better choice if picking one title. Though the cases in "The Anthropologist" are hardly dull, it does seem a little long winded and repetitive in places - is he paid by the page? Perhaps others would disagree, but I would prefer to see more of the clinical speculation and brain-function theorizing. This is my only criticism for what is for the most part provocative and illuminating reading.

Sheds Some Light On the Mind-Brain Relationship
An Anthropologist On Mars sheds some light on the mind-brain relationship and the concept of one's self. Oliver Sacks, a neurologist, takes the reader through seven case studies of people with neurological disorders, exploring not only the particular disorders, but also his patients' individual personalities.

Read the seven amazing stories in this book, entitled "The Case of the Colorblind Painter", "The Last Hippie", "A Surgeon's Life", "To See and Not See", "The Landscape of His Dreams", "Prodigies", and "An Anthropologist on Mars". Oliver Sacks presents his seven case studies of neurological disorder in an intruiging manner, and I recommend An Anthropologist On Mars to anyone with an interest in the workings of the human mind.

Color blindness and autism
What if a painter is color blind. Absolute color blindness is a rare condition. Sacks encountered a painter who had been injured. The color blindness experienced meant to the painter that everythin appeared wrong. He particularly missed the colors of spring. Things were leaden. The artist did derive pleasure from looking at drawings. He did start painting again, black and white paintings. As time passed there was evidenced in the painting a lessening of fear and depression.

Sacks describes a a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome. Writers on temporal lobe epilepsy have spoken of the doubling of consciousness. One of the subjects of the essays, Franco, has a prodigious memory and a gift for painting. He paints the town of his boyhood incessantly. His Pontito is minutely accurate. Returning to the town was not the intense experience Franco expected. Everything seemed small.

Sacks writes of the savant syndrome in a child called Stephen, an accomplished artist. He has extraordinary powers of visual perception. Savant talents seem to have a more autonomous even automatic quality than normal ones.

The anthropologist on Mars is Temple Grandin. Her work devising cattle chutes is described. She is constantly trying to understand her own autism.

Oliver Sack's medical stories are sui generis. Running into them is always a delight.

One of his best books!
I've read several books by this author, including "The man who mistook his wife for a hat", "The island of the color blind" and "Seeing voices", but I have to say that this is the one I've enjoyed the most.

In keeping with the format of his hugely popular "The man who mistook his wife for a hat", Oliver Sacks presents his readers with several case stories that are both gripping and enlightening. As always, the author's greatest talent is being able to teach the general reader about the intricacies of the human mind, without reducing the particular patient to something other than human. The people behind each of these case studies are never reduced to being just freaks of nature, but are instead described with a great deal of respect.

I highly recommend all of Dr Sacks' books, but this is the best one to start with if you're new to his work. However, if lengthy footnotes are a pet peeve of yours, you may want to stay away. I, on the other hand, along with many other of his readers, really enjoy the many footnotes as they give his books more depth and points the reader in new interesting directions.

Unforgettable people
Science, medicine and psychology aside, these people who are triumphing over the most inhuman odds are unforgettable and inspiring. Most would be unlovable to us if we knew them personally, but that's not important. All of us know people who've had many more advantages in life who have not lived up to their potentials. These folks more than make up for the underachievers. They're all somehow brilliant in their own rights. ... Read more

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For more than 20 years, Clinical Phonetics has been the leading resource for those interested in acquiring both the academic content and the transcription skills required for responsible clinical decision-making. Clinical Phonetics, Third Edition, is a comprehensive introduction to the art and science of clinical transcription. The three primary strengths of Clinical Phonetics continue to be: a) authoritative coverage of the phonetics of American English, b) tested skills teaching in clinical transcription using four hours of audio examples, and c) discussion of a wealth of clinically-relevant topics throughout the text and numerous appendices. For professional in the fields of linguistics and language pathology. ... Read more

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good information; great IPA reference
I felt that this book was a really good introductory phonetics text book. I've used it as a good standard for phonetic transcription over the past few years as an SLP student. It's a great reference, although it is a little dry. ... Read more

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The leading resource for nearly 25 years, this new edition thoroughly and systematically covers the entire spectrum of equipment, from the most basic to the most sophisticated. It explores the most current equipment while also retaining some of the older equipment either within the text or on the accompanying website. In addition to providing technical descriptions, the 7th edition of Mosby's Respiratory Care Equipment maintains a clinical focus with discussions of how to select modes, set parameters, monitor the equipment, and respond to alarms. Various respiratory therapy techniques, such as diagnostic sleep studies, are included as well. Features like the "how-to" focus of the mechanical ventilator discussion, Clinical Practical Guideline excerpts, Clinical Rounds boxes, and Internet resources set this book apart. ... Read more

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definetely equipment-oriented
Fabulous book and one of very few that goes in-depth about specific ventilators, including home-care, in-hospital adult ventilators, baby ventilators, and pretty much everything in between.

Very definitely equipment oriented and should not be the only reference for the details of mechanical ventilation.

Fabulous for the beginning RT student who is just trying to grasp the principles behind mechanical ventilation without plunging immediately into the management of the ventilator itself. Great for the familiarization of the controls of the ventilators (large diagrams of the keypad layouts came in handy and were good for practice.)

Contains good clear concise information on other aspects of respiratory care, including snippets on pulmonary function tests and medical gases.

Also a great price for a giant hardcover book such as this. But it bears repeating that this should not be your ONLY reference with regards to ventilation.

Really difficult to read
I think this book would be great for Registered or Certified therapists, but as a student, myself and my classmates found this to be difficult reading. We think at the student level, the techniques to therapies and how it affects the patient is more important than the mechanical parts of the machines we use. I liked the Pilbeam mechanical Ventilation book much, much more. ... Read more

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In 1994, the expert knowledge of Ram Gokal and Karl D. Nolph, the two foremost figures in the field of peritoneal dialysis, was combined to produce the first edition of the Textbook of Peritoneal Dialysis. The work quickly became recognised as the `gold standard' for those working in the field. Since its conception, however, our understanding of peritoneal dialysis related physiology, kinetics and clinical outcomes, as well as the concepts of intraperitoneal chemotherapy, has increased sufficiently to make an updated and completely revised edition of the work necessary. An expansion of the editorial team by fellow-experts Ramesh Khanna and Raymond Krediet enabled an even more comprehensive approach to be taken.This second edition reasserts the book's uniqueness in its detailed discussion of the topic, making it required reading for all those working within the field of peritoneal dialysis. ... Read more

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Thank goodness for this book
Acid/Base Made Simple was a very valuable guide during all four years of med school -- it saved me more than a few times from embarassing gaps in knowledge. Three of my residents said that they still use it as their primary reference when they encounter acid/base physiology problems. The explanations were crystal clear and the topics addressed are all clinically important ones that come up again and again in the hospital. The book has excellent diagrams, but its strongest point I thought was it's writing style. In contrast to many books on the subject, this one is written in a casual, almost conversational style that makes it so much easier to read and learn. This is one of the few books that has earned a spot on my bookshelf and will not be sold at the end of med school!

Acid-Base, fluids and Electrolytes made ridiculously simple
I think Acid - Base and Electrolytes is one of the most challenging topics in Medicine . During my second year in Med. School our Head of the Department of Nephrology, on the first day of the course said that if there is one book I would like you all to follow is Acid-Base , Fluids and electrolytes made ridiculously simple. After reading this book I will say that our chief was absolutely on the money . This is a Classic book , not only for medical students but also for residents. There are many different clinical cases and the explanation on each of the cases is great . I think the most important aspect of the book is that it is an easy read .

This book saved me.
I'm a first year PA student about to enter into the second clinical year. This "Ridculously Simple" book saved me during our nephrology unit. It made difficult topics accessible and in plain English; the questions section at the end of each chapter helps to bring concepts together clinically. I struggled with kidneys and ended up acing the test, mostly due to this book...I hear from many medical students/PA's they often refer to this book during their internal medicine rotations. Lastly, I found the neuroanatamy book by the same publishers equally as helpful.

Good for the basics...
Not a bad book for the basics. It will get you by, but it does not replace a good physiology text.

Great but could be excellent!
Ok well it seems that everyone loved this book. This is an excellent basics approach to the kidney topic. It has excellent clinical applications for hyper/hypo kal and natrimia. It also has a great section on approaching acid-base problems in a 3 step system. This was a wonderful inclusion. The one problem for those wanting to know about physiology, this book doesn't contain it! NOTHING on clearance, GFR, or Renal blood flow! If it had this it would be a 5 star. It is a complete power house if you buy it and Lippencott's physiology board review. ... Read more

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With 35 new chapters as well as comprehensive updates throughout, the New Edition of the cardiology masterwork represents the most complete revision to date. Hundreds of world authorities synthesize all of the developments that are revolutionizing practice-from the newest findings in molecular biology and genetics to the latest imaging modalities, interventional procedures, and medications. Plus, it now features an exciting full-color layout with many new illustrations, a brand-new section on preventive cardiology, 20 new contributors, and a wealth of e-dition options to meet any reference need. ... Read more

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RISE ABOVE YOUR RAISING - MOOD DISORDERS & ANGER
I strongly recommend this book for anyone seeking to find help with mood disorders, any type of addiction, identity issues, self-esteem issues, reoccurring unresolved anger and troubling relationship issues.

Excellent compliments to this book are: Treating Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy by Karl Heinz Brisch and Kenneth Kronenberg; Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man by Scott Wetzler; The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment by Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman and Robert Pressman; Emotional Blackmail: When People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt to Manipulate You by Susan Forward and Donna Frazier; Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable and Volatile Relationship by Christine Ann Lawson; Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents by Nina Brown; Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job by Alan Cavaiola and Neil Lavender.

And if you want to pursue the subject even further, you may be interested in reading The Narcissistic / Borderline Couple: A Psychoanalytic Perspective On Marital Treatment.

Full of Useful Informaion
I am amazed at the amount of information this book provides. Unlike other books on borderline personality disorder, this book has treatment aspect of the disorder. I think other books on the same subject had more descriptions of how bad the disorder is and don't even mention any treatment.

The Regimen of Healing
Personality disorders are a relatively new diagnostic area. The ICD-10 (the equivalent of the DSM-IV) doesn't even recognize some of them as separate disorders (e.g., the Narcissistic Personality Disorder). Others are controversial even in the USA (Borderline, Antisocial, Schizotypal). Textbooks are, therefore, of limited use to both practitioners and sufferers.

Sorely needed are self-help books that guide the perplexed through a regimen of exercises and coping strategies, an interactive framework which rests on current knowledge, and an organizing principle to tie it all together. This book offers all three abundantly. It is bound to be of help to therapists, self-help groups, victims of the disorder, and their nearest and dearest. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited".

Recommended Understanding that the BPD is a Medical Disorder
I am the webowner of BPD Today. Very good information on working through issues. I recommend asking your therapist before reading this book as one must be ready. The author makes many good points and it appears that past trauma/abuse is related to the BPD.
Please understand however that this book does not address the need for medication in getting into recovery from the BPD. It is primarily a medical disorder. Otherwise it is loaded with assistance. 

Not just for Borderlines!
While struggling to comprehend a loved one's diagnosis of BPD, this volume offered me hands-down the most insightful, productive and forwards-oriented information on the disorder (and all addictive behaviors) I could find on the market.

In contrast to some of the other popular informational BPD volumes out there (Kreisman's 'I Hate You, Don't Leave Me,' etc), I found Santoro's work to be packed with strategies, self-work exercises, and cognitive interventions that point the way towards the future, rather than reiterating the standard cliches about the hopelessly entrenched nature of this personality disorder.
His conceptual framework of working through various "zones" of recovery is a very handy paradigm in a field where much of the therapeutic literature is presented more statically.

'The Angry Heart' was the book that finally convinced the person with BPD in my life to seek appropriate therapeutic & psychopharmaceutical treatment, and this, in my lay opinion, is worth gold.

In addition, it is one of the few that also speaks to ADULT MEN who receive this diagnosis - there's a refreshing dearth of the unicorns and rainbows one sees in much of the other BPD self-help literature that's oriented towards younger women (who make up the majority population diagnosed with BPD in the USA at the moment). It's certainly not gender-limited, however.

As someone who runs a large resources web site on BPD, I have met a number of BPD sufferers who have used the program laid out in this volume with great success, either alone or in conjunction with professional counselling, and that anecdotal information really speaks for itself. Granted, this is not an easy read for Borderlines, and the program is tough - but if you stick with it, SO effective for creating real life change.

Excellent! If you have encountered BPD in any context in your life, I highly recommend The Angry Heart.
If you have a loved one with BPD, I strongly advise getting Kreger/Mason's 'Stop Walking on Eggshells' in conjunction with this book.

Helen

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Wonderful Guide
Trying to study for recertification in geriatric psychiatry, I got this book. It contains the best teaching on the subject I've ever experienced. Wish I'd had it when I was starting out.

REVIEW NEUROLOGY FOR THE PSYCHIATRY BOARD PT 1`
If you read this book cover-to-cover (do-able) and answer the sample questions, you will know the answers to 90%++ neurology questions on Part 1 of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Exam!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing...I love It
I am a psychiatry resident and this book was recommended to me by my program director, (a neuropsychiatrist). Buying this book was one of the best decisions I made. Its great. Extremely readable, with good pictures. Clear, concise with great questions at the end of the chapters and at the end of the book. I highly recommend this for anyone training in psych who needs to review their neurology.

Even Psychiatrists Can Learn Neurology
Simple, easy to follow presentation of difficult material. Lots and lots of review questions to solidify retention of material. Still THE classic for psychiatrists studying and reviewing neurology. Highly recommended!

Psychiatry Board
I HIGHLY recommend this book. It will solidify and clarify your knowledge of Neurology. If your are about to take your Board in Psychiatry you should buy this book. I also recommend this book to residents in neurology or psychiatry. ... Read more

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The 4th Edition of this outstanding diagnostic reference provides up-to-date, illustrated descriptions of the pathological entities that affect the central and peripheral nervous system, including all of the major lesions encountered in surgical neuropathology. It focuses on the diagnostic and differential diagnostic criteria for neoplastic, inflammatory, and infectious diseases, and the correlation of the clinical, radiological, and pathological features of each disease process. ... Read more

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Great diagnostic help
The 4th edition is even better than the previous ones. Clear, precise, well illustrated, and incorporating all the lattest information. ... Read more

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* Includes a new chapter on logistic regression.
* Discusses the design and analysis of random trials.
* Explores the latest applications of sample size tables.
* Contains a new section on binomial distribution. ... Read more

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Clearly delineates the terminology and practices associated with compensatoryversus rehabilitative treatment technique in neurogenic dysphagia.Includes comprehensive treatment planning and selection of techniques based on physiologic abnormalities, rather than symptomatology.Provides in-depth discussion of various biofeedback modalities and reviews the challenge of diet modification terminology and standard practices.Reviews surgical and pharmacological managemet of the dysphagia patient. TEXTBOOK ... Read more

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Management of Adult Neurigenic Dysphagia
This book was very informative.It contained chapters pertaining to all of the hot issues in dysphagia management, including malnutrition/dehydration and reimbursement issues.Treatment strategies included both old and new methodology. ... Read more