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General Gynecology: The Requisites in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Drs. Andrew and Eric Sokol have created an important gynecology reference, which is presented in a user-friendly, well-written format.
Book Review, December 2007
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Avoiding Opioid Abuse While Managing Pain
Lynn Webster and Beth Dove's new book looks at the struggle to balance the potential for opioid abuse against the need for compassionate analgesia.
Book Review, October 2007
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The Lonely Patient
Dr. Michael Stein's new book demonstrates just how challenging the practice of empathy can be.
Book Review, June 2007
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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Doctors need to find ways to do a better job of dealing with dying patients, according to a new book.
Journal Article, May 2007
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Romancing Opiates -- Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy
According to Theodore Dalrymple's book, the current system of treating addiction not only has been ineffective but also has made the problem worse.
Journal Article, April 2007
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Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First
Dr. Marsden Wagner's book offers strong criticism of a number of shortfalls in the current maternity care system.
Journal Article, March 2007
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Physical, An American Checkup
James McManus has much to offer the medical field in its unabashed portrait of how patients tend to view the medical profession and the tools they wield.
Book Review, August 2006
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A Disease Apart: Leprosy in the Modern World
Tony Gould's book looks at a disease that discriminates in its pathophysiologic, political, and social effects.
Book Review, March 2006
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Prescription for a Healthy Nation
Two public health researchers suggest that we refocus the debate about healthcare delivery.
Book Review, November 2005
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States
Stephen Barrett, MD, levels criticism at the Institute of Medicine's publication on CAM.
Book Review, October 2005
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A Review of Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition, With Online Updates
There are few allergists who do not have at least one edition of Allergy: Principles and Practice, which is rightly considered the authoritative text in the specialty of allergy and immunology.
Book Review, October 2005
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American Mania: When More Is Not Enough
Peter Whybrow's, MD, book approaches the American national obsession with materialism and overconsumption from the perspectives of economics, philosophy, psychology, and neurobiology.
Book Review, September 2005
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Book Review -- War Epidemics: An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850-2000
A massive new book examines the impact of modern war on diseases.
Book Review, March 2005
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When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America Since 1900 and the Fears They Have Unleashed
Howard Markel, MD, examines events that demonstrate a pattern of discriminatory governmental responses to epidemic threats.
Book Review, October 2004
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Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, Building for Healthy Communities
Americans are not as healthy as they could be, according to a new book about the spread of the suburbs.
Book Review, September 2004
