(Part 3) Reddit mentions: The best medical reference books

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This one seems to be popular. It's been the "bible" in every place I've worked over the past 30 years. A new edition is published every year.

http://www.amazon.com/Nursing2014-Drug-Handbook-Nursing/dp/1451186355

https://www.dummies.com/careers/medical-careers/medical-terminology/medical-terminology-for-dummies-cheat-sheet/

This gives a bare bones list.

Medical Terminology Online for Mastering Healthcare Terminology (Access Code) with Textbook Package https://www.amazon.com/dp/0323357342/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_RN79BbMA1BAP8

This is the book I used for my terminology class. I liked it.

I've got this one and like it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1496384075/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_lgCZCbBMRM7VP

The book is 400 pages. It's written in a Q&A format. Use Amazon's Look Inside feature to see if you like what you see.

Another thing to keep in mind is that there is a new edition coming out soon. The 4th edition is from 2013.

https://www.amazon.com/USMLE-Step-2-Secrets-5e/dp/0323496164/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500612842&sr=8-1&keywords=step+2+secrets

For instruments check out books for surgical technicians, they'll cover commonly used instruments for practically every surgical specialty as well as the most common procedures in those specialities.

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Check out this one: https://www.amazon.com/Instrumentation-Operating-Room-Photographic-Manual/dp/0323043100/ref=sr_1_15?crid=1N1M9Z3R9T6GO&keywords=surgical+instruments+book&qid=1554152086&s=gateway&sprefix=surgical+instruments%2Caps%2C292&sr=8-15

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Source: I was a surgical tech

Brown and Bracken. I've never heard of that other one, which is very sneakily entitled, "Step 1 ^^^^Preparation Secrets."

Make sure you pick up a drug reference book, I know I've seen them in Pharmacy's before.

Lucky for you, the medical industry is also a fan of cheat sheets and makes one themselves.


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156363838X

Your being a CNA will give you a bit of a boost during early clinicals, but that goes away quickly. Start reading up on pharmacology, medical terminology, and documentation now.

http://www.amazon.com/Mosbys-Surefire-Documentation-Nurses-Document/dp/0323034349

http://www.amazon.com/Charting-Made-Incredibly-Easy-Series%C2%AE/dp/1605471968

Hi I need this text

Pharmacy education: what matters in learning and teaching

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Pharmacy-Education-Matters-Learning-Teaching/dp/0763773972

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This is the Physician's Desk Reference, a summary of every major drug (not all drugs, just the more than a thousand popular ones) that was on the market in the US four years ago. Your doctor probably has a copy. There's no way they memorized all 3000 pages of that book. I guess they could have a pharmacy in the office, but there's a lot of doctors and they don't all need to maintain their own private pharmacy.

I remember that Clint Harding said somewhere that the books were generic, general type books. Books you would have with you all the time.

The books...

http://www.amazon.com/Mosbys-Pharmacology-Nursing-Leda-McKenry/dp/0323030084

http://www.amazon.com/Pearson-Health-Professionals-Guide-2015-2016/dp/0134062191


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http://mauramurray.blogspot.com/2015/11/what-they-found-in-mauras-car.html

https://www.amazon.com/USMLE-Step-2-Secrets-5e/dp/0323496164/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=7VHSE3CKX4Z7817KNZ7H&dpID=51ihUiE35mL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=detail

Handbook of Non-Prescription Drugs isn't exactly "pocket", but it has everything you're asking for.

How to Roll a Joint: step by step: Volume 1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/154043138X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_XNjjDb281TAGJ

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This books has a story about a doc who does his own vasectomy.
http://www.amazon.com/White-Coat-Wisdom-Stephen-Busalacchi/dp/0979422205

I <3 Davis's Drug Guide!

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Basically, it's a high yield review of concepts likely to be tested on CK, and can be read in a few days. I think it's useful in the middle/towards the end of your prep to help tie together concepts and get a baseline refresh of earlier things you reviewed. You have to be somewhat cautious while using it since it was published in 2013 and some of the guidelines (Breast Cancer Screening, Prostate Cancer screening, CHADS2 instead of CHA2DS2 VASc score to name a few) are out of date. I found the best way to use it was to look up the associated Uworld question if I remembered different guidelines/suspected they were different.

I will give you a task. If you read this extremely detailed explanation for how the human brain works and you still have questions about your topic, I will be glad to field them.

I think you don't know enough about neurobiology. It isn't a simple topic, but literature is available to give you a masterful understanding.

I've taken graduate courses in animal behavior and animal neurophysiology. I've also read and attempted to commit to memory all of Citow. If you don't make the same effort, then you are abusing a pulpit.

> Other drugs to NOT mix with Cipro, include antinflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen and anti-diarrhea meds. He prescribed me a squits med.

BTW... my personal "standard practice" is that I NEVER, EVER take any medication without looking up the DETAILED info on it -- something that is EASY to do now with the internet -- but which I was doing way back in the 1980's (long before the internet ) initially by visiting the library to use & then later buying my own "PDR: Physician Desk Reference" guide to meds... which includes info not only on what "side effects" are known, but also what contraindations exist (drug interactions, etc) AND what "supervision/testing" is SUPPOSED to be done (regardless of side effect symptom complaints) for people ON certain medications.

And then of course it is a "judgement call" ON MY PART as to whether I will take on the risk... whether the medication's (potential) positives are worth the (possibility) of the negatives.

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>I'd far rather he'd said "Let me just Google this a minute" and bloody checked first.

Well thing of it is you cannot trust someone else to do that -- you really DO have to do it yourself -- after all, who has MORE at stake in your health?

To the doc, you are just patient number #4,879... and there is (in some ways of understandable "necessity"*) a sort of ingrained "you win some, you lose some" indifference to the fate of patients.

Problem is that "indifference" -- while some level of it is necessary (again *) -- can easily combine with other priorities (ego, sloppiness, laziness, incompetence, even money, etc) such that it becomes either negligent or outright harmful. (In fact MOST of the history of "medicine" is rife with doctors doing more harm than good... and it is a modern "arrogance" to believe THAT state of things has been entirely changed, or that the potential for "harm" has been entirely "done away with"; because it hasn't, it most definitely hasn't.)

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* That is to say, regardless of their actual skill -- or their "ego-mania" (or alternately their "humility" -- doctors are NOT "all-powerful"... it is inevitable that they WILL "lose" patients (i.e. people get sick/injured and SOME of them will die).

Doctors CANNOT always prevent that, in fact for the most part, in the lion's share of cases whether a patient "recovers" is MORE dependent upon the patients' own body: immune system & overall health; than it is on anything the doctor does or does not do; at best some intervention or treatment assists the body, at worst it harms/kills, and very often the effect is largely irrelevant (i.e. the patient would have recovered -- or died -- regardless).

Moreover, doctors CANNOT become so "invested" in the health of any particular patient that they become "devastated" by the person's sickness/death -- if and when they do so -- well, they effectively destroy their own ability to function (and THAT doesn't help anyone either).