Category: Basic Sciences
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Essential Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Approach (2015)
Essential Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Approach (2015) is a 200 page book that introduces you to most of the important concepts of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics. But instead of bogging things down with formulas and calculations, the book shows you how to use biostatistical concepts in practice. Take for example the concept of statistical significance. We…
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The Painless Guide to Mastering Clinical Acid-Base (2017)
The Painless Guide to Mastering Clinical Acid-Base (2017) is a 180-page introductory acid-base biochemistry book. The book is very clear and well written and hits on all the major aspects of acid base disorders in the context of their underlying biochemistry and pathophysiology. For example, the biochemistry of ketoacidosis is discussed in fine, precise and…
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Peters’ Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (2019)
Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (2019) offers a bleak and sometimes depressing window into the state of health, or lack thereof, of underdeveloped countries, particularly those in Africa. The names of the diseases and symptoms are fearsome and sometimes curious: dengue, blackwater fever, rabies, leprosy, bubonic plague and more. The images are equally striking…
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Tropical Medicine: A Clinical Text (2013)
Knowledge of clinical tropical medicine is essential for every modern physician. The diseases of warm climates are no longer restricted by geographical boundaries because the scope and speed of air travel … make us all part of a global community. Tropical Medicine (2013) Tropical Medicine: A Clinical Text (2013), first published in 1964, is comprised…
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Tropical Medicine Notebook (2017)
Tropical Medicine Notebook (2017) is a smallish book (about 200 pages) crammed with usefully organized text, tables and drawings to help you learn and retain virtually all key ideas in medical microbiology. It’s an ideal handbook to have on your person as you try to learn or relearn the vast field of clinical microbiology in easy-to-digest bite-sized…
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Human Metabolism: A Regulatory Perspective (2019)
Metabolism is commonly taught in medical schools as a subcategory of biochemistry. While technically correct, metabolism has additional unique and important dimensions that must be understood and committed to memory, including the organs and organelles where the reactions take place. You don’t just need to know what is happening but you also need to understand…
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Hypoxia: Critical but Often Poorly Understood Concepts
Hypoxemic Hypoxia Arterial hypoxemia almost always points to either a reduction of the inspired oxygen tension or to a lung problem. When troubleshooting a hypoxemic patient, it sometimes helps to investigate the problem by breaking it down in an organized and stepwise fashion: Hardware and access issues: these are more or less obvious plumbing problems which…