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On Becoming a Doctor

The Truth about Medical School, Residency, and Beyond

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This insightful and candid guide unveils the truth about medical school, residency, and the fascinating realities that await aspiring physicians beyond the classroom.On Becoming a Doctor provides an essential roadmap for your medical odyssey including:Comprehensive Guidance: Delve into the intricacies of medical school life and residency, as well as the challenges and rewards of being a doctor. ... Read more

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This insightful and candid guide unveils the truth about medical school, residency, and the fascinating realities that await aspiring physicians beyond the classroom.On Becoming a Doctor provides an essential roadmap for your medical odyssey including:Comprehensive Guidance: Delve into the intricacies of medical school life and residency, as well as the challenges and rewards of being a doctor.
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On Becoming a Doctor

The Truth about Medical School, Residency, and Beyond

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This insightful and candid guide unveils the truth about medical school, residency, and the fascinating realities that await aspiring physicians beyond the classroom.On Becoming a Doctor provides an essential roadmap for your medical odyssey including:Comprehensive Guidance: Delve into the intricacies of medical school life and residency, as well as the challenges and rewards of being a doctor. ... Read more

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This insightful and candid guide unveils the truth about medical school, residency, and the fascinating realities that await aspiring physicians beyond the classroom.On Becoming a Doctor provides an essential roadmap for your medical odyssey including:Comprehensive Guidance: Delve into the intricacies of medical school life and residency, as well as the challenges and rewards of being a doctor.
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How Doctors Think

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"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." —Time magazineFrom Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical ... Read more

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"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." —Time magazineFrom Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical
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Manage Your Pain 3rd Edition

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Practical and positive ways of adapting to chronic pain.Chronic pain has been described as a silent epidemic. More than one in ten people - over ten per cent of the population - suffer from persisting pain. Over the last month, how often have you: 1. taken pain killers so you could do something you know would stir up your pain? 2. completed a task, regardless of pain, then 'paid' for it later with ... Read more

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Practical and positive ways of adapting to chronic pain.Chronic pain has been described as a silent epidemic. More than one in ten people - over ten per cent of the population - suffer from persisting pain. Over the last month, how often have you: 1. taken pain killers so you could do something you know would stir up your pain? 2. completed a task, regardless of pain, then 'paid' for it later with
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The Art of Medicine

Healing and the Limits of Technology

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A renowned diagnostician shares stories of his patients and explores the importance of the human factor in medicineIn The Art of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital’s internist Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong draws on his vast dossier of personal cases and five decades as a clinician to examine the core principles of a patient-centered approach to diagnosis and treatment.While HPK, as he is fondly known, ... Read more

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A renowned diagnostician shares stories of his patients and explores the importance of the human factor in medicineIn The Art of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital’s internist Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong draws on his vast dossier of personal cases and five decades as a clinician to examine the core principles of a patient-centered approach to diagnosis and treatment.While HPK, as he is fondly known,
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Unaccountable

What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

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New York Times Bestseller“Every once in a while a book comes along that rocks the foundations of an established order that's seriously in need of being shaken. The modern American hospital is that establishment and Unaccountable is that book.”-Shannon Brownlee, author of OvertreatedDr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist ... Read more

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New York Times Bestseller“Every once in a while a book comes along that rocks the foundations of an established order that's seriously in need of being shaken. The modern American hospital is that establishment and Unaccountable is that book.”-Shannon Brownlee, author of OvertreatedDr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist
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Crooked

Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery

by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin ...

The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand—a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades—delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm, and how to get on the road to recovery.In her effort to manage her chronic back pain, investigative reporter ... Read more

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The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand—a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades—delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm, and how to get on the road to recovery.In her effort to manage her chronic back pain, investigative reporter
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What Doesn't Kill You

A Life with Chronic Illness—Lessons from a Body in Revolt

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"Should be read by anyone with a body. . . . Relentlessly researched and undeniably smart."— The New York TimesNamed one of BuzzFeed's "Best Books of 2021"What Doesn't Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist's awakening to chronic illness, weaving together personal story and reporting to shed light on living with an ailment forever.Tessa Miller was an ambitious t... ... Read more

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"Should be read by anyone with a body. . . . Relentlessly researched and undeniably smart."— The New York TimesNamed one of BuzzFeed's "Best Books of 2021"What Doesn't Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist's awakening to chronic illness, weaving together personal story and reporting to shed light on living with an ailment forever.Tessa Miller was an ambitious t...
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Back Up

Why back pain treatments aren't working and the new science offering hope

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Back pain is one of the world' s greatest public health challenges. It is the leading reason we visit the doctor, the leading reason we take time off work, the biggest cause of disability worldwide. Around one in 10 people will develop chronic, life-ruining back pain. And rates are growing. A multi-billion dollar industry exists that claims it can fix back pain – by shrinking discs, melting nerves ... Read more

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Back pain is one of the world' s greatest public health challenges. It is the leading reason we visit the doctor, the leading reason we take time off work, the biggest cause of disability worldwide. Around one in 10 people will develop chronic, life-ruining back pain. And rates are growing. A multi-billion dollar industry exists that claims it can fix back pain – by shrinking discs, melting nerves
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Extreme Measures

Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

by Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D. ...

For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest levelIn medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care—to become an ICU physician—and imagined ... Read more

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For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest levelIn medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care—to become an ICU physician—and imagined
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The Year the World Went Mad

A Scientific Memoir

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'An essential book.' -Matt RidleyIn January 2020, leading epidemiologist Professor Mark Woolhouse learned of a new virus taking hold in China. He immediately foresaw a hard road ahead for the entire world, and emailed the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland warning that the UK should urgently begin preparations. A few days later he received a polite reply stating only that everything was under ... Read more

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'An essential book.' -Matt RidleyIn January 2020, leading epidemiologist Professor Mark Woolhouse learned of a new virus taking hold in China. He immediately foresaw a hard road ahead for the entire world, and emailed the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland warning that the UK should urgently begin preparations. A few days later he received a polite reply stating only that everything was under
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Mind That Child

A Medical Memoir

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‘There is always a baby for whom you can feel happy at what they have achieved, or sad when things go wrong. There are always parents to help through an incredible journey . . . I am, I know, a very lucky man.’ Leading paediatrician Dr Simon Rowley has committed almost all of his working life to the care and wellbeing of children. In Mind That Child, Rowley provides a rare glimpse into what it ... Read more

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