Surgical Anatomy for Mastery of Open Operations (2018)
A review of a detailed surgical anatomy text designed to connect anatomical knowledge with the technical demands of open operations.
Basic Sciences
A Clinician’s Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health (2009)
Forget about the rather limiting and convoluted title of this book. It’s an outstanding overview of practical clinical epidemiology and biostatistics. To better understand what this book can do for you, consider, Essential Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Approach (2015), which I reviewed elsewhere. That book is also a qualitative description of important concepts biostatistics concepts, but … Read more
How the Endocrine System Works (2016)
No one in the medical community has so far been successful at stopping the epidemic of terrible endocrinology books that has been plaguing the medical community for decades. I won’t name names but have a look at what’s out there and you’ll be stunned: the market is full of bloated endocrinology tomes that have many … Read more
Pharmacology Examination and Board Review (2018)
Pharmacology Examination and Board Review has long been a medical student favorite—and for good reason. The book provides a clear and concise review of the basic science of pharmacology, presented with a clinical flavor. The main strength of this book is its overall level of organization and attention to relevant basic science details. Whenever possible, … Read more
Physiology (2017)
This blog is largely devoted to authors who have spent their entire careers teaching and writing about a single medical subject or field. For Dr. Linda S Costanzo, it’s Physiology (2017). Physiology is the lingua franca of medicine. Medical doctors solve problems by thinking and conversing with their patients and with other professionals in physiology … Read more
Atlas of Pathology (2015)
Robbins and Cotran Atlas of Pathology (2015) contains more than 1,500 high-yield medical images, including clinical and intraoperative photographs, pictures of gross pathology specimens, blood smears, H&E stains, electron micrographs, funduscopic and endoscopic images, plain radiographs, CTs, ultrasonographic images, MRIs, and more. (I reviewed the previous edition of this book elsewhere. This review has been updated to reflect my … Read more
Principles of Cell Biology (2014)
There are very few basics science books that make me wish I was back in medical school so I could learn the subject matter that way. Principles of Cell Biology (2014) is one such very rare book. Like most basic science books I’ve reviewed here, Principles of Cell Biology (2014) isn’t a what book but … Read more