(Part 2) Best pathology books according to redditors

Those are rookie numbers, you gotta either pump up the pre-studying or sunscreen. Why study for the MCAT when you can just start studying for
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I suggest reading first aid for 3 hours a day: https://www.amazon.com/First-USMLE-Step-2019-Twenty-ninth/dp/1260143678


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But real talk, none of this is a good idea. Studying for the MCAT in high school is stupid AF. Either troll or serious gunner that was never gonna heed any advice given here. Godspeed.

Rubin's Question and Answer book is pretty good too. Or you can buy the ebook version and do it online.

Trust the process. You'll learn what you need to learn.

BRS is nice and dense, but somewhat outdated.

Your best resource, by far is going to be Pediatrics in Review (and for NICU, NeoReview). They provide excellent review articles for any topic you might wish to learn about. Read these articles often.

Nelsons is the reference "bible" if you will, but I don't know if I'd drop the dough on paying for a full Nelson's. Nelson's Essentials on the other hand, is quite digestible.

You mentioned Pocket Medicine, and there is a Pocket Pediatrics, but I've never used it. Harriet Lane is definitively the standard reference but a bit thick to stick in a white coat pocket (every halfway decent program has like 4-5 of these strewn about the resident work-room).

The good news is, you can sort of pick and choose what reference texts you want. For board prep you'll get the usual "laughing your way", PREP, and medstudy, etc. I also think it's not a bad idea to pick up a text correlating to your field of interest.

For instance, I like critical care. So I picked up Roger's Handbook of Pediatric Intensive Care (the much more portable version of the larger text).

Hope that helps!!

AP: (um, we have anatomic and clinical pathology divided in the USA)

Can't recommend Molavi enough. I think the best thing to read after Molavi is to read it a second time.

The real question is, one you've read that, what to read next. I agree with u/frogamazog, a big book like Rosai would be helpful. I always liked Fletcher's histopathology of tumors but I can't tell you it's superior to the alternatives.

But what I was after, and didn't always find, was a book that WASN'T comprehensive, that was readable by someone in their first 2 years. I found the biopsy interpretation series to be helpful as a first and second year as they were pretty readable, and...I was quite bad at pathology. Show me a low power image when I was a first year, I didn't know what I was supposed to see. The 20x and 40x photos sorta forced me to look in the right places.

My short list, which should be debated; I mean, maybe I just suck:

-lung: biopsy interpretation of the lung. for non neoplastic, new katzenstein

-liver: biopsy interpretation, mike torbenson's version is great

-derm, elston and ferringer. for non neoplastic, this one

-gi I'll go biopsy interpretation again before the tome that is odze

-thyroid: I actually don't know what's best here and would appreciate advice as any diagnostic skills I had here are rapidly being lost

-head n neck: biopsy interpretation aerodigestive was fun.

-heme: whew. I don't know a good starter book. Thoughts? Once WHO 2016 2017 update drops I'd be tempted to tell people to just start there. Jaffe's book is pretty readable but it gets dense.

-neuro: prayson's is pretty readable. There's an old smears book that's good for smears.

eyes: if you're gonna write an intro book on a niche field, here's the template

-BST: khurana's essentials in bone and soft tissue pathology. not too heavy.

To add to this /u/violeur-chein I found a few decent looking books on UK amazon

Physiology for nurses at a Glance - £16.51 The cheapest, but no reviews so idk how good it really is.


Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology: An Essential Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students - £27.33 One review, says it's a broad but shallow book, kinda what you're looking for.

Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology: For Nursing and Healthcare Students - £25.32

The last one seems to have the best reviews, & seems to not require any prior knowledge beyond high school bio level. Reported to give a pretty comprehensive coverage of each subject.

That's just a little searching, but hopefully gives you ideas or something to compare to.

Thank you. Also look up Joanne Zeis : here’s the link.
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Guide-Behcets-Disease-Joanne/dp/0965840352
She has Behcets and wrote a very helpful book for sufferers. You can also find her on facebook and she’s probably got a website. Lovely helpful lady. Xx

From an older CAP accreditation checklist:
>GEN.20375 Phase II
Does the laboratory have a document control system?

>It is recommended that the laboratory maintain a control log listing all current policies and procedures and the locations of copies (including derivative documents such as card files and summary charts). The control log may contain other information as appropriate, such as dates when policies/procedures were placed in service, schedule of review, identity of reviewer(s), and dates when policies/procedures were discontinued/superceded.

If you want to read deeper, it references Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). Laboratory Documents:
Development and Control; Approved Guideline—Fifth Edition. and ISO 15189:2003

Those are old documents and standards though. AFAIK, these now need to be reviewed and signed off on by management on an annual basis. I haven't read through the latest guidelines, but I have definitely noticed a crackdown on what's allowed to hang around lately.

According to the textbook Forensic Pathology of Trauma,

>For adults, falls from at least 5 stories to a hard surface are frequently fatal, although survival is possible up to 8 stories. A study of children hospitalized after falls showed that all who fell 3 stories or less survived.

>Although the force:area ratio is high in a feet-first impact, this landing position is usually associated with less injury. Head-first impacts are most likely to be fatal.

There's a whole other section that goes into details of injury patterns. Basically, head-first falls cause head injuries, butt falls causes spinal trauma (and can actually cause the spine to 'poke' into the brain), falls to the side cause broken ribs and tears to organs and vessels, and feet-first falls cause lots of leg fractures, spinal fractures, and lots of tears to organs and vessels.

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I'd agree with the important difference, that at first glance, it doesn't seem to include explicit frameworks. Like this, for example

In terms of whether the data collected by patients during a DIY trial such as the one described in my book, the answers I’ve gotten from researchers are quite mixed. This angle of the story was the focus of a feature I wrote for The Scientist back in 2013: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34433/title/Do-It-Yourself-Medicine/. Basically, the concern is that the data—which are self-reported by a self-selected population of patients—are biased. That said, I do think there are valuable clues in such information that could perhaps point to new directions for the treatment of a particular disease.

And just to clarify, so far NP001 has proven promising. Neuraltus has recently launched a follow-up Phase 2 trial to continue moving the drug toward clinical approval.

With regard to anecdotes about patient experiences, I chose to focus my book on the personal stories of Eric Valor (who is here in this AMA today), Ben Harris, and Rob Tison—three ALS patients who were involved in the DIY effort surrounding NP001. Ben and Rob both participated in the first Phase 2 trial, and both benefited from the drug, but were unable to continue taking it after the trial ended. Tragically, both Ben and Rob died more than three years ago. https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Trials-Terminally-Patients-Treatment-ebook/dp/B01D01AC6C

There isn't much in the way of TSM doctors in Spain (a Contral Clinic around Malaga www.medivitalclinic.com), but the information on how to use TSM is free, so if you can get the Naltrexone then it's fairly easy to use the TSM protocol. Naltrexone is available in some places in Spain without prescription, but my guess is that if you ask the pharmacy for a referral to a doctor that has prescribed it recently that may be all you need to get a script/prescription for it.

Here's a link to the book "The Cure for Alcoholism", it's a free PDF:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/60fs7gmvbyzs1kk/Cure%20for%20Alcoholism.pdf?dl=0

I don't think there's a free Spanish version, but here's a link to the Spanish version on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015BU19LW

But the protocol is simple. Take the medication an hour before your first drink of the day, ONLY on drinking days. Start with a reduced dose in case there are transient side effects and increase to a full pill when you can (this is paraphrased from the book). That's it.

For community support, go to r/Alcoholism_Medication or http://optionssavelives.freeforums.net/

To get to your private messages this link should do the trick. I'll send you a PM so you have one to read if you don't already.

https://www.reddit.com/message/messages/

Via eBook method. All you have to do is go into the kindle ebook store here, and find ebooks with the "Give as a gift" option on the right side of the page like this book. You send these ebooks to my Amazon email ([email protected]) and once I receive them, I PayPal you the money. Smooth and simple :)

Looking for a PDF of the following:

* First Aid for the Wards, Fifth Edition (Amazon Link)

My only caveat: the original formatting & page number of the book MUST be intact. No converted epubs.

Will pay via Paypal. Thanks.

Another thing that just came to my mind: you don't coincidentally happen to speak german? Otherwise I would have suggested this book: http://www.amazon.de/Störungen-Schilddrüse-Ursachen-Heilbehandlung-jodiertem/dp/3891890621/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1290802417&sr=1-1

I know other books by this author so I guess his solution will be to just eat a diet based solely on whole, unprocessed, organic foods, including freshly ground grains that have been soaked overnight and to avoid iodine.

But there must be lots of other books out there too. So my usual approach would be to just read as much on this topic as possible. You will after a while be most likely be better informed than most of the doctors that you will find.

Buy this: http://www.amazon.com/Master-Wards-Internal-Medicine-Clerkship/dp/1609781376

It's an excellent book.

I ended up getting an atlas

It was recommended for our path class (but not required). I picked it up because it was cheap. So far I really like it.

I also have [flashcards] (http://www.amazon.com/Rubins-Pathology-Flash-Cards-Raphael/dp/1608311821/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346767244&sr=1-1&keywords=Rubin%27s+pathology+cards), which so far are good for when I want to study, but not really.

I found some of his books while browsing Pinterest astronomy Pins. Someone had posted screenshots of his book "The Stargazer's Guide to the Night Sky" and captioned it "Creationist resources for homeschooling moms." I find this concerning, so I did some research and dug up more of his works:

Ultimate Proof of Creation

Taking Back Astronomy: The Heavens Declare Creation

Old Earth Creationism on Trial: The Verdict Is In

Big Problems with the Big Bang

Exposing Progressive Creation: Serious Biblical & Scientific Errors That Promote Billions Of Years (Co-written with Ken Ham

And here is a link to a discussion of his paper where he attempts to resolve the starlight problem, and rationalizes (very poorly I might add) the issue of stars being billions of light years away in a purportedly 6000 year old universe. The best quote from his paper: "The overwhelming majority of old-earth, or old-universe arguments are fallacious because they are based on faulty, unbiblical initial conditions." It doesn't seem like he's studied the Bible or physics.

Don't forget about Dugway.
https://www.amazon.com/Extremely-Unfortunate-Skull-Valley-Incident/dp/1553695542

https://www.amazon.com/First-Aid-Basic-Sciences-Systems/dp/1259587037/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=USMLE+step+1+organ+systems&qid=1554656016&s=gateway&sr=8-1 get this book