The Medical Media Review
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Book Review: Instant Workups, A Clinical Guide to Medicine
Learners, particularly medical students and junior residents, sometimes have difficulty translating disease-based knowledge of pathology, pathophysiology and laboratory medicine to complaint-based real world medicine. They might know, for example, what “classic” acute heart failure is supposed to look like, but they might have some trouble wrapping their minds around the question of how to approach a patient who comes with…
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Book Review: Medical Imaging Consultant by William W. Orrison
This niche handbook is based on a straightforward concept. For a given disease, it describes the imaging test of choice. As a bonus, the book also provides information about relative costs, harms, benefits and chest x-ray equivalents and so forth. So if you would like to know, for example, what the test of choice is…
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Book Review: Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis (2009) by Stephen G. Davies
I’ve been reading and annotating this book for close to a month now, and I barely scratched the surface in terms of absorbing the enormous amount of useful information stuffed into this relatively small 500 page handbook. Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis (2009), edited by Stephen G. Davies, is an extremely helpful handbook for interpreting…
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Stedman’s Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing (2011)
Stedman’s Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing (2011) is relatively inexpensive and comes with a CD-ROM that will add about 60,000 medical terms to your word processor’s dictionary. I just did it and tested it out. It took seconds to install. My test words were conus medullaris, and Stedman’s got it right. There might be…
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Book Review: Cope’s Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen
“You cannot be a real general surgeon without reading this book.” – Schein (p. 27) Cope’s Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen is one of the most famous, if not the most famous, single subject book in all of medicine. Now in its twenty-second edition, it remains an excellent monograph about the history and physical examination…
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Book Review: Neurology and Neurosurgery Illustrated by Kenneth W. Lindsay (2010)
One of the most important and defining aspects of a book is that its content is fixed between its pages. That does something to the mind: it makes goal-setting possible, making it possible to conceive of mastering a particular subject as defined by a particular book’s contents. This is particularly useful in a relatively slowly changing…
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Book Review: The Philosophy of Evidence Based Medicine (2011)
Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, once said: Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments…
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