Tag: Diabetic ketoacidosis

  • How the Endocrine System Works (2016)

    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…

  • The Painless Guide to Mastering Clinical Acid-Base (2017)

    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…

  • Book Review: Acid-Base Case Studies, 2e

    Book Review: Acid-Base Case Studies, 2e

    I’ve been looking at Acid-Base Case Studies (2004) by Ira Kurtz MD for a long time now, at least since I’ve written several months ago, wrongly, that a solid book with a case-based approach to acid-base disorders does not exist. It does in fact exist, and this is it. The book presents the reader with dozens of  clinical…

  • Book Review: Cope’s Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen

    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…