(Part 2) Best medical encyclopedias according to redditors

Sorry, but while I genuinely appreciate that it worked for you, I advise people to please do not buy this book and please stop advertising it in this sub. It's pseudoscientific nonsense from beginning to end.

The author, John Pagano, was not a doctor, and certainly not a dermatologist. Very little of the science attempted in the book is real. For example, Pagano claims psoriasis is caused by a "leaky gut" (not a real thing) and toxins (not a real thing either in the sense he's talking about it) migrating from the gut to the skin; all of these ideas have long been debunked, and this sub should not encourage bullshit, magical thinking like this.

The mechanisms behind psoriasis are much better understood than Pagano claims, and the causes are not what he thinks they are. He thinks the spine is involved, and devotes an entire chapter on it. Why? Because he's a chiropractic. Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease. It's not related to the spine.

The diet suggestions in the book are not new or specific to the book, and are arguably the only sensible area he touches on. Psoriasis sufferers are better reading other, more thorough sources, such as the autoimmune protocol.

The other remedies mentioned in the book are a waste of money and time. Steroids, coal tar, vitamin D, UVB phototherapy, weight reduction, exercise, meditation, abstaining from alcohol and cigarettes — these are remedies that are known, scientifically, to work. Not correcting your damn spine.

If you want a great book on psoriasis, get An Atlas of Psoriasis by Professor Lionel Fry, a dermatologist. You can get used copies for as little as $18.

I suppose the "Bible" of chemistry is the CRC Handbook. I'd be surprised if he didn't already have one, or access to one, maybe as .pdf.

The Merck Index is also pretty common.

There are many handbooks on polymer chemistry, but most are $300 and up.

Swedish med student here. As far as an ordinary atlas goes, in my class it's usually down to:

"Sobotta"

"Netter"

"Gray's"

They pretty much covers all of it and are mostly useful for reference. In the end it's down to personal taste. I'd recommend to go to a local book store and check them out or i think google books have excerpts. If you simply want to learn the names and so forth, I'd recommend Netter's flash cards

I do however guess that you want to know more about function and actual injures and such stuff. If so, I recommend this gem instead.

(I haven't looked if the links are the latest editions. It's usually not much difference, so if you can get off with an earlier edition for a lower price, go for it).

Also, there are several iphone/android/ipad apps. I'd advice against it, but perhaps useful if you got such a device.

Check out this book to help fine-tune approaching different chief complaints:

"From Symptom to Diagnosis"

http://www.amazon.com/Symptom-Diagnosis-Evidence-Clinical-Medicine/dp/0071496130/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382288255&sr=8-1&keywords=from+symptom+to+diagnosis

Other than that, keep in mind that a differential diagnosis does NOT mean every single possible thing that can cause those symptoms in the patient. You should really focus on 4 or 5 things it could be, based on the chief complaint and initial HPI, and ask questions to narrow down that list even further. That's one of the biggest mistakes I see my classmates doing -- when asked about what their assessment is, they'll give an insanely long list of unlikely things and what questions/physical exam maneuvers they did to rule them out.

Hello all. I met the author Bertalan Mesko at Singularity University and think his book could be of interest to some. I have just glanced at the table of contents and seems to be relevant to this subreddit. The Kindle version will be free for 5 days.

Link http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Future-Medicine-Technology-Human-ebook/dp/B00N3Z7NMC

Knowing the author I am sure this will be a good informative read.

Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery?

https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Human-Anatomy-Surgery-Jean-Marie/dp/3822831298

Je pense que ça pourrais aider je ne suis pas ambulancier mais le livre a l'air assez complet
https://www.amazon.fr/Concours-Ambulancier-Tout-en-Admis-2019-2020/dp/2311205129/ref=sr_1_4?adgrpid=55772902266&gclid=CjwKCAjw9L_tBRBXEiwAOWVVCU73GW5koDDAU164RpfQz98SKG8akHZDAoD23qcavx-gtbdUB4d9CRoC8mEQAvD_BwE&hvadid=275348685494&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9054910&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=18368942124174224583&hvtargid=kwd-306335477966&hydadcr=9754_1756800&keywords=livre+ambulancier&qid=1571821984&sr=8-4

It's a rewarding job with lots of autonomy. Def favorite job I've had. Done SNF, hospice case management, float rn, and cv stepdown. Pm me for more specifics on the job and some of the trickier aspects.

A lot of the job is the learning how to use the path of greatest comfort, lowest risk, ease of med administration, etc. It takes a while to feel confident in your medication recommendations. Lots of psych, anxiety, pain, bowel, respiratory, and cardiac management. Plus dealing with the family. Also documentation is much different. You need to support decline. It's the opposite of what we are taught to do.

Use this book as your recommendation bible:

https://www.amazon.com/Symptom-Management-Algorithms-Handbook-Palliative/dp/1888411201

There is a newer edition just FYI http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Pestanas-Surgery-Notes-Vignettes/dp/1625231121/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

https://www.amazon.com/NCLEX-RN-Drug-Guide-Medications-Kaplan/dp/1609788931

Maybe this book? Closest thing that came up on google.

When u/DaytonFlyers says pharm cards, he could be referring to PharmCards

https://www.amazon.com/PharmCards-Review-Cards-Medical-Students/dp/0781787416/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480691376&sr=8-1&keywords=pharmcards

Could aslo mean Lange Pharmacology Flash Cards (awesome for nailing the vignettes) or Kaplan's Pharmacology Flash Cards

Take a look in the back of First Aid, all these are rated "A-"

https://www.amazon.com/PharmCards-Review-Cards-Medical-Students/dp/0781787416

These are great... used them throughout M2 along side Sketchy and during dedicated ( grab about 30 cards or so and review em before bed)

Your right about one thing, labs and imaging aren't perfect. But there are statistics that allow us to compare labs/imaging with physical exam maneuvers, they are called likelihood ratios, and depend on the sensitivity and specificity of the particular test (physical exam, labs, imaging, combination, etc).

Let's take PNA, since you imply that your physical exam is able to accurately confirm or exclude PNA as the diagnosis. Here is a paper from 1999 (when common chest Xray was both more expensive and less accurate at detecting PNA than it is now):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10335685

I'll paste the last line of the conclusion for those not wanting to click on the link - The traditional chest physical examination is not sufficiently accurate on its own to confirm or exclude the diagnosis of pneumonia.

Here is another nice write up about it from the University of Washington:

https://depts.washington.edu/physdx/pulmonary/evid1.html

Again, conclusions linked for those not wanting to click link:

Conclusions

Physician agreement about the presence or absence of pneumonia in patients with respiratory illness is relatively low.
No single symptom, historical feature nor physical examination finding is highly accurate in predicting pneumonia.
Prediction rules using combinations of findings are helpful in ruling out pneumonia but chest x-ray is required to accurately diagnose pneumonia.
A screening pulmonary physical examination may include percussion and auscultation for crackles. If abnormalities are detected or if pneumonia is strongly suspected, one may consider maneuvers such as egophony.

I think I've made my point but there's plenty more where that came from. CXR is required to rule in or out PNA, and no physical exam findings (or lack thereof) will change that. If you are using your physical exam findings to decide whether to treat patients or not, bottom line is you're treating patients who don't have PNA or your not treating patients who do, or both.

As for volume status, let me link this nice review:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-7133.2010.00166.x/full

I'll link a section here for brevity:

In one analysis of adults, dry axilla–supported hypovolemia (positive likelihood ratio, 2.8; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.4–5.4), while moist mucous membranes and a tongue without furrows argued against it (negative likelihood ratio, 0.3; 95% CI, 0.1–0.6 for both findings).23 In the same analysis,23 capillary refill time and poor skin turgor had no diagnostic value, a finding supported by others. Finally, in a prospective study of blood donors giving 450 mL of blood,24 mean capillary refill time decreased from 1.4 to 1.1 seconds and had a sensitivity of 6% for blood loss. The authors concluded that the accuracy of capillary refill in a patient with a 50% prior probability of hypovolemia was only 64%.

Skin turgor (what you call skin tenting and claim has value) has NO DIAGNOSTIC VALUE according to this study and many others.

If you don't understand + and - likelihood ratios, I suggest reading Symptom to Diagnosis by Scott Stern et al, (https://www.amazon.com/Symptom-Diagnosis-Evidence-Clinical-Medicine/dp/0071496130). It details the evidence behind physical exam maneuvers and shows when its useful and more importantly when its not.

Oooh, this contest is good! Sorry to ask but do Audible audiobooks count? I don't have a Kindle at the moment. I'm a student and have one surgery audiobook that would be super helpful to listen to during my commute. (: Thanks for hosting!!!

[Pocket Differential Diagnosis] (http://www.amazon.com/Differential-Diagnosis-Pocket-Bruckmeier-Publishing/dp/159103261X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367854147&sr=8-1&keywords=pocket+differential+diagnosis)

On that note, also [Pathophysiology for the Boards and Wards] (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_30?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=pathophysiology%20for%20the%20boards%20and%20wards&sprefix=pathophysiology+for+the+boards%2Cstripbooks%2C151&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3Apathophysiology%20for%20the%20boards%20and%20wards&sepatfbtf=true&tc=1367854243714) is a good book to have, not quite pocket sized but since I saw below you had an iPad it would be a good pdf to download. I know there hasn't been a new edition in a few years, but most medicine we'll be expected to know hasn't changed much

Not sure if this is the one: https://www.amazon.com/Memorizing-Pharmacology-A-Relaxed-Approach/dp/B01FSR7XZO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=. And this one is also available in audiobook by the same author: https://www.amazon.com/Goodnight-Pharm-Brand-Generic-Classifications/dp/B0716P6Y15/ref=pd_cp_129_1?. Narrator is like David Attenborough...superb!

I would also recommend taking a look at this book. Honestly, all personal statements are boring and cliche. They follow a similar pattern and use similar styles. Your goal is not to revolutionize the personal statement, your goal is to write one that is at least comparable to most.

Look through both books and try to mimic the things they do. The PS is about why you cant to pursue a career in medicine. Your journey, your story, the decisions and actions you've made that led you to choose this path.

Probably not what you're looking for, but I enjoyed Biology of Marijuana. Easy to find .pdf online. http://www.amazon.com/Biology-of-Marijuana-ebook/dp/B000Q35XKS

I read Medical School Essays that Made a Difference. The nice part about it was that it shows other application stats and where they applied/were accepted with their various essays.

As far as the helping people thing goes its like if you want to get a girl in bed you cant just straight up ask her you have to take her out and spend some money and hope she falls for it. Same goes for this, of course you want to "help people" you wouldn't want to be a PA if you hated em. As far as what to say I would pick up this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Difference-Edition-Graduate-Admissions/dp/0307945278

It's the best $8 you can spend and it helped me a lot. It has some what are considered "good statements" that left an impression. I think yours is memorable because of your mom and I would embellish on that more even if you have to embellish a bit. In my opinion I think the first paragraph is good just improve the rest and you're good to go.

Don't misunderstand - I'm not in favour of the ban - but it's different. It's different because of what it signifies. It signifies what it signifies because of its cultural context and history.

My socks don't signify much. They're very nearly zero degree items of clothing. But burqas signify more.

Don't know why we're arguing the toss about this. I'm obviously correct, that's why the French haven't tried to ban my socks.

Ahh, okay. I don't know of one off the top of my head.

But the Gamma function is unique with respect to the properties

1. [;f(1)=1;]    <br />

   
   

2. [;f(x+1)=xf(x);]
   
   
3. [;f;] is log convex
   
   Just thinking out loud here, but you might try to follow the construction of the Gamma Function and, in particular, the proof of it's of uniqueness (see Askey and Roy ) and, by altering condition (2) which is the interpolation condition, appropriately, see what you come up with.
   
   Whatever you come up with, it should be asymptotic to [;\Gamma(n)/e;] since the number of derrangements is basically [;n!/e;] .

I've never used it, but I understand that Special Functions by Andrews, Askey, and Roy is a classic.

It's disappointing to see posts like this in this sub. I'm not the sub police but advocating piracy like this is very poor decision making. Please remove this post. I like this sub but I don't like it associated with piracy. There's other subs for piracy.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TKUJ8T0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_5F0UDbPPZ9ACD