Child abuse and suspicious child deaths continue to be very complicated problems for the clinicians and pathologist to investigate. This book examines the growing evidence base for forensic pathology in pediatric cases in order to present an objective reference for all those working in the field. The internationally acclaimed editors and contributors deliver an up-to-date, comprehensive, and thorough work, which provides everything the reader could possibly need whether in a clinical, laboratory, or legal setting.
A Practical Reference Guide to Emergency Care. Essentials of Emergency Medicine, Second Edition, provides physicians and medical residents with a comprehensive reference guide to the practice of emergency medicine in clinical settings. Covering both complicated and straightforward issues, Essentials of Emergency Medicine, Second Edition, serves as a comprehensive reference for the full range of challenges encountered in emergency departments, as well as a manual for physician self-assessment and study guide for those seeking recertification.
On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health
"Some physicians become known as whores." This is strong language in Kassirer's mostly temperate but tough look at how big business is corrupting medicine—but according to Kassirer, one doctor's wife used the word "whore" to describe her husband's accepting high fees to promote medical products. Such personal anecdotes distinguish Kassirer's look at the conversion of America's health-care system into a commercial enterprise. Kassirer, former editor-in-chief of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, notes the range of conflicts of interest between profit-centered business and people-centered medicine.
10 Things You Need To Know Before You See The Doctor: A Physician's Advice From More Than 40 Years Of Practicing Medicine
Takes consumers behind the scenes of hospitals and doctors' offices to understand how and why medicine works the way it does. Here are clear tools for making good decisions when you see a doctor and have to sort through many options. People who read this book will be able to ask the right questions of health care providers: readers can confidently * demand the best medical care *
Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, this book is a comprehensive review for the American Board of Family Medicine certification and recertification exams. This edition contains over 1,800 board-format questions, including over 1,000 multiple-choice questions from the major subject areas of family practice and over 700 questions drawn from 60 clinical problem sets. The book includes a pictorial atlas of clinical photographs, radiographs, and lab smears, with questions regarding these images. Detailed answers and explanations follow the questions.
