Reddit mentions: The best aids & hiv books

Honestly, get an NCLEX prep book and study for all your tests off it. It will probably keep you in the A range and the NCLEX will be a breeze. Getting used to the questions is the second worse part, the first is having confidence that you can pass it!

For medications, the truth is you won't remember much about them until you use them every day. It takes time. You can however just brute force them. There's also a Mosby's drug flash cards: basically they are pharmacology cards with pictures and mnemonics on them for drug classes, names, and method of action and side effects.

Here's a link:
http://www.amazon.com/Mosbys-Pharmacology-Memory-NoteCards-Mnemonic/dp/0323054064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311948172&sr=8-1

Not to many people know they exist but I love them.

> I learned that the original "patient zero" (the origin of the term!) was exonerated of the label when we found out that HIV had been active in the US since at least the 1960's, and it's estimated that the disease jumped from chimps to humans as early as the 1910's.

You should read The Origins of AIDS, by Dr. Jacques Pepin. It is generally believed that there may have been instances of HIV/AIDS in the US in the mid 1960's, but the vast majority of (and only traceable) infections are likely the result of one individual who got HIV in Haiti and brought it to the US around 1969. There is a case from Norway from 1966, and some well documented cases in the Congo as early as 1959. Genetic studies seem to indicate that the "ancestor" of HIV could date as far back as 1910 though, as you said.

I decided to be extra, and went to Amazon Deutschland. This is all English Language, American Medicine. Your practice likely will have some subtle differences.

Washington Manual:

https://www.amazon.de/Washington-Manual-Medical-Therapeutics-Paperback/dp/1975113489/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1WTILRB0WLCUP&keywords=washington+manual+internal+medicine&qid=1564359495&s=gateway&sprefix=washington+manual%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1

Pocket Medicine, 7th Edition (man, I'm now so many editions behind):

https://www.amazon.de/Pocket-Medicine-Massachusetts-Hospital-Handbook/dp/1975142373/ref=sr_1_3?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2ZPC8XFN2EVIV&keywords=pocket+medicine+the+massachusetts+general+hospital&qid=1564359554&s=gateway&sprefix=pocket+medicine%2Caps%2C232&sr=8-3

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And, I'm ID. So...

Sanford

https://www.amazon.de/Sanford-Guide-Antimicrobial-Therapy-2019/dp/1944272097/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=sanford+therapy&qid=1564359652&s=gateway&sr=8-1

Tried to find the Johns Hopkins for ID and couldn't.

Those are more reference than than anything else, but are helpful.

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.

The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy 2019: 50 Years: 1969-2019 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1944272097/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_VC9xDbX23W3FH

The diseases are actually quite old. They're both zoonoses, or diseases transmitted from animals to people. In the case of HIV from chimps, and in the case of Ebola we don't know the reservoir species. Maybe bats. From there, these diseases are able to transmit directly from human to human. HIV turned out to be quite well adapted for this, perhaps because SIV was in chimps for so long and also because unlike Ebola, HIV takes awhile to cause symptoms, and symptoms aren't as scary at least for awhile.

It's new patterns of population and travel that have amplified them (and a bit of bad luck). A great book on this for HIV is [Jacques Pepin's The Origin of AIDS] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Origins-AIDS-Jacques-Pepin/dp/0521186374). Essentially we can see based on historic biological samples and the pace of genetic viral mutation that HIV has crossed into humans from chimps multiple times and among primates as well. What changed was that HIV managed to infect a bush meat hunter then make it into a city with a lot of men and few women and then perhaps into a sex worker and . . . away we go. Whereas infecting one bush hunter who then infects his wife and she goes on to have an infected baby - well they all just die out, end of "epidemic."

[Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague] (http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balance/dp/0140250913/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407301527&sr=1-1&keywords=the+coming+plague) and [David Quammen's Spillover] (http://www.amazon.com/Spillover-Animal-Infections-Human-Pandemic/dp/0393346617/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407301582&sr=1-3&keywords=the+coming+plague) also address this question well.

1. Broken Promises: How the AIDS Establishment has Betrayed the Developing World. By Edward C. Green. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1611321123/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506457150&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=broken+promise+edward+c+green&dpPl=1&dpID=51XHYGY52WL&ref=plSrch
   
   
2. The Wisdom of Whores By Elizabeth Pisani. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0393337650/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506457277&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=the+wisdom+of+whores&dpPl=1&dpID=51e5bRcm0DL&ref=plSrch
   
   
3. The Invisible Cure: Why we are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa.. By Helen Epstein. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0312427727/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506457333&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=the+invisible+cure&dpPl=1&dpID=41PaOG%2BmQ1L&ref=plSrch
   
   
4. The Origins of AIDS. By Jacques Pepin. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0521186374/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506457438&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=the+origins+of+aids
   
   
5. No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses.. By Peter Piot. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0393345513/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506457493&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=peter+piot
   
   
6. Anything by Laurie Garrett!