(Part 3) Reddit mentions: The best medicine books

Disclaimer: Some of this advice I consider 'no duh' but I figured I'd say it just in case.

On shelf exams:

1. Yes, all of the case files/blue prints/UW/OME are good resources.
   
   
2. Emma Holiday's clerkship review videos are all excellent.
   
   
3. If you're a DO peep and have to take COMAT shelf exams, go ahead and shell out for the COMBANK exam specific question banks. Some of those questions will show up verbatim on exam day.
   
   
4. If you haven't already, download the mobile app for UWorld, Kaplan, and/or Combank. Some of my preceptors actively encouraged me to do questions while they were charting and would jump in to work through some with me when we had downtime in the clinic.
   
   On electronic devices and apps:
   
   
5. I got an iPad mini at the start of the year and loved having it but it is not at all necessary.
   
   
6. Some people recommended starting off each rotation by saying to your attending/upper level "I have electronic textbooks/apps, is it okay if I use them while I'm with you?" (so that you're not accused of texting or being on facebook 24/7) but that was honestly never an issue for me.
   
   
7. Good apps to have: MDCalc (free), ASCVD Risk Estimator (free), Nodule (free), UpToDate (some hospitals will give you an institutional log-in if your school doesn't), GoodRx (free), Epocrates (free-ish), and palmEM ($10 but a decent investment if you're an EM gunner).
   
   On boards:
   
   
8. The best time to sign up for your Step 2 CS/Level 2 PE is the second you get authorization from your school. Those spots go quick.
   
   
9. DO peeps: the NBOME has affiliate deals with hotels for reduced rates. You can find the links and info here. Yes, this whole thing is stupid expensive but you might as well take advantage of what little silver lining there is.
   
   
10. If you need disability accommodations (extra time, electronic stethoscope), start those applications NOW. There's a lot of little parts to them (I have no idea why they needed a letter from my dean but whateva) and the committee to approve those things only meets once a month (so if your application arrives after they've met for the month, you're basically going to be waiting two months to hear back from them.) Anyone who needs help with this or has questions can feel free to message me.
    
    
11. I have no idea when the best time to take the written tests are. It will depend on your individual schedule and goals.
    
    On wards:
    
    
12. You'll probably get a lot of (pocket) book recommendations. You do not need to buy every book recommended to you. The two I found useful this year were The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine and Clinician's Guide to Laboratory Medicine.
    
    
13. Pre-round on your patients. Some people like the scutsheets from medfools but I found them a little constrictive once I knew what I was doing. If you are supposed to write an H&P, SOAP note, discharge summary, etc and your school didn't teach you, google it. There are a ton of decent guides out there.
    
    
14. You are there until your attending/resident explicitly tells you to go home. Your ability to ask to leave will depend on the culture +/- your gumption.
    
    
15. NEVER LIE. If you did not see the patient, you didn't see the patient.
    
    
16. Some people will tell you to always say "I don't know but I'll look that up and get back to you!" Honestly, my residents would roll their eyes and tell us to guess.
    
    
17. If you don't know where something minor is (cups, ice machine, extra pillows, extra blankets) ask to be shown so that the next time you can get it yourself. Yes, you will absolutely be asked to fetch people coffee, return that empty bed to the floor, help someone to the bathroom, grab an extra blanket, etc. Most people tend to think more highly of those that do this without groaning.
    
    
18. If you feel like you had a good time with a preceptor and they would be a useful addition to your application, consider asking them for a letter of rec at/near the end of your rotation. You don't have to apply every letter you upload for programs to see so there's really no harm in collecting more than three (but do not ask every single persona for a letter of rec - doctors talk about students, especially the ones they find sketchy or annoying).
    
    On evaluations:
    
    
19. I know the majority of this subreddit moans about how subjective and unfair evaluations are but my one point of pride this year is that every single preceptor gave me an honors level eval.
    
    
20. Yes, I am a woman. No, I am not attractive. I'm slightly below average to fair with a moderate amount of chunkiness.
    
    
21. Do anything you can to make your resident's life easier.
    
    
22. Be polite to every nurse, tech, nurse practitioner, receptionist, and office manager. Make small talk. Yes, I know you've heard this a million times. Yes, I did bake things and bring in boxes of donuts. Yes, you can call me a suck-up. I was still blown away when one office manager said to me "We really liked having you. None of the other students talk to us."
    
    
23. Be enthusiastic. Ask questions. Even if you're not interested in that specialty, you can still ask what applying to residency was like (for young doctors) or how things have changed since they started (for old doctors).
    
    
24. This is not the year to have debates. Some of my classmates got into arguments on guns, the president, or religion; sometimes the attending respected their chutzpah and sometimes they didn't. I preferred to play it safe.
    
    
25. Keep in mind every annoying social media professionalism lecture you've ever gotten. Techs, nurses, nurse practitioners, and more all wanted to add me as a friend on Facebook. Yes, you can choose not to add them (smartest move tbh) but I gave in after getting point-blank asked "why didn't you add me?!" Facebook is for that "magical feeling of wonder and joy" when you catch a baby for the first time or the "humbling awe" you felt when you first retracted the colon. Nothing else.
    
    
26. If you are sharing a rotation with NP student or PA student, treat them like another medical student and be cordial. Don't try to pimp them. Don't get into pissing contests. Doctors are expected to be leaders; now is your chance to actually demonstrate that.
    
    
    
    In general: Third year can be frustrating because it varies so wildly. Some of you will have cush rotations where you're done at 10:30 am. Some of you will enter the hospital before the sun rises and leave when it is setting. Some of you will feel like you're shadowing again. Some of you will be treated like interns (and abused because you don't have work-hour restrictions). Some will find out the thing they thought they wanted they hate and others will find out the thing they want is beyond their reach (because of family obligations, board scores, or another thing all together). Some of you will deliver 80 babies a month and some of you won't even do a Pap smear. Every hospital has a different culture; just be polite, professional, and let yourself be immersed. You'll pick it up soon enough.
    
    TL; DR: Life is short. Be excellent to each other.
    
    EDIT: Added some stuff, found out there's a size limit on comments, made a second part.

I came out of a program with an unknown name, but those that knew it, respected it. we had an extremely high volume for surgicals and cytopathology. Its not all about the name. But the name helps. For one, you'll get more interesting cases. You are a referral site as a larger institution, and you'll be at a program with "experts" on subjects. (maybe not totally true)Another benefit of a larger program is usually money in the department. Whether its money invested into informatics, molecular, or manpower, larger programs will usually have larger budgets.
Think of sub-specialties now. Very common fellowships are cytopathology, hematopathology, and I guess some surgical subspec. like GI, GU, GYN, derm, soft tissue, and Breast. But there are literally dozens of different fellowships (I didn't mention any of the CP ones) to choose from and different places to do them. It does help if you are an internal candidate.

Visit CAP, USCAP, ASCP and join if you can. I think some of them have medical student logins or would be free. You can see some stuff about being a pathologist that doesn't involve histology from these sites as well. speaking of histology, go ahead and read this book

Join AMA and visit the FREIDA website.

I would encourage you to look at programs with at least 3 per class as a minimum.

most importantly, talk to your institution's residency program director for pathology. They will be a great asset.

I was actually torn between path and pulm crit care. I think it just shows that you enjoy critically thinking.

Why give these questions to CS grads now if they know they've passed a data structures and algorithms class that should have done the same?

You can say, "well, the class isn't perfectly standardized and even though they may have passed, maybe they didn't do great on the part of the class on graph traversal".

To which I reply, "How is your standardized test any different?"

I'll compare to another standardized test:

> The LSAT is scored on a scale of 120-180. The average score is about 150, but if you're looking to get into one of the top 25 law schools, your score should be well over 160.

Maybe you get a 160 out of 180 on your CS-AT or whatever your standardized test is called, but you bombed all the graph traversal questions. How would the company know this? If graph traversal is important to them, they'll still want to ask about it.

You can come up with an alternative scoring scheme, I guess, but unless this test is both exceedingly thorough, and the results are super granular, companies are still going to ask the technical questions they care about. And they'll probably ask them anyway, to verify you didn't cheat, or only pass your test because you spent six months specifically studying things like this where the entire purpose is to teach as specifically to the test as is possible.

You have to show that it's in the company's best interest to not do the extra few hours of interview work and instead trust the test results, and when you're talking about an investment in the candidate of potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars, I don't see any reason they'd make their interview process any simpler because of this test.

If you are looking for a book to maybe help you out with preping for the interview they I could recommend you Medical School Interview Secrets to Success. Its a really small book and you can finish it in like one sitting, but I found it super helpful in getting your brain in the interview mentality. It gives you a bit of homework too as a form of prep. Its not super groundbreaking or anything, but it is very helpful for compartmentalizing what you need to cover over an interview. I'm 3 for 3 right now on interviews and acceptances, and I do attribute it to this book.

I put the amazon link here.

https://www.amazon.com/Medical-School-Interview-Secrets-Success/dp/097795594X

btw, i dont make any money from recommending this, it was honestly a good book

I also would recommend Albert Jonsen et al.'s Clinical Ethics for practical case examples. Here's the structure of the book:

>Each chapter of the book begins with some general considerations about the topic, and the ethical principle relevant to that topic. The clinical situations that generate ethical problems are then described and illustrated by clinically realistic medical cases. A short distillation of current opinion from the bioethical literature is provided, followed by an analysis of the cases.

This is a good accompaniment to B&C I think. I haven't read it is as extensively, but that which I have read I have liked. It's very practical in its approach. A good starting point for deeper and more thorough reflection with other sources.

You could also read some essays from this Hastings Center Report collection on narrative ethics, which is growing increasingly popular in bioethics. If you want specific readings on specific topics too I could recommend some pieces that I like.

The BEST (in my opinion) resource for someone who needs to be spoon fed histology and pathology (raises my own hand) is Robbin's Atlas of Pathology. It is a very double-edged sword resource though, because it has much more than is just on Step 1 but if you know what images have yield it will walk you through why the images are the way they are. A good strategy I had was to look up in the book every image that UWorld presented me.

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The link can be found here:

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https://smile.amazon.com/Robbins-Cotran-Atlas-Pathology/dp/1455748765/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_g3905707922?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&ie=UTF8

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There is also an Anki deck full of Step 1 Histo floating around somewhere as well. It is super good for reviewing in the last couple of weeks.

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David D, USMLE Tutor

Med School Tutors

Lazy citations:

• Anderson (2017) [PDF]: Of Bayes and bullets: an embodied, situated, targeting-based account of predictive processing
  
• Bastos et al. (2012): Canonical microcircuits for predictive coding
  
• Clark (2013): Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science
  
• Clark (2016): Surfing uncertainty: prediction, action, and the embodied mind
  
• Friston (2002): Functional integration and inference in the brain
  
• Friston (2003): Learning and inference in the brain
  
• Friston (2005): A theory of cortical responses
  
• Friston (2008): Hierarchical models in the brain
  
• Friston (2010): The free energy principle: a unified brain theory?
  
• Friston (2011): Functional and effective connectivity: a review
  
• Friston et al. (2018): The graphical brain: belief propagation and active inference
  
• Hohwy (2007a): Functional integration and the mind
  
• Hohwy (2007b) [PDF]: The sense of self in the phenomenology of agency and perception
  
• Hohwy et al. (2008): Predictive coding explains binocular rivalry: an epistemological review
  
• Hohwy (2012): Attention and conscious perception in the hypothesis testing brain
  
• Hohwy (2013): The predictive mind
  
• Howhy (2015): The neural organ explains the mind
  
• Howhy (2016): The self-evidencing brain
  
• Kirchoff et al. (2018): The Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference, and the free energy principle
  
• Knill and Pouget (2004): The Bayesian brain: the role of uncertainty in neural coding and computation
  
• Parr and Friston (2018): The anatomy of inference: generative models and brain structure
  
• Ramstead et al. (2018): Answering Schrodinger's question: a free-energy formulation
  
• Seth (2013): Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self
  
• Seth (2015) [PDF]: The cybernetic Bayesian brain
  
• Seth and Friston (2016): Active interoceptive inference and the emotional brain
  
• Seth et al. (2011): An interoceptive predictive coding model of conscious presence
  
• Tenenbaum et al. (2011): How to grow a mind: statistics, structure, and abstraction.
  
• Wiese and Metzinger (2017) [PDF]: Vanilla PP for philosophers: a primer on predictive processing

https://www.cvphysiology.com

This website is really useful for all things cardiology. Basically a textbook and pretty in-depth but all inclusive. We used this as my school(not the school the author is from) and most lectures were based on it. Really well done for understanding I thought. Didn’t even have to really study cardio that much for step 1. There’s a lot of info there so if it’s too much you can always just use it to dig deeper into what you’re struggling with.

While not free, I thought this book was fantastic for EKG’s: https://www.amazon.com/Only-Book-Youll-Ever-Need/dp/1496377230/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541210064&sr=8-1-spons&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=the+only+ekg+book+you%27ll+ever+need&psc=1

I still reference it regularly during rotations and learned really well from the book how to get a system down for systematically reading ekg’s and what to look for.

Hope either of these might help!

Electrophyslogic Testing by Richard Fogoros

https://www.amazon.com/Electrophysiologic-Testing-Richard-N-Fogoros/dp/0470674237

https://www.amazon.com/Electrophysiologic-Testing-Fourth-Richard-Fogoros/dp/1405104783/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=7J5MS6B697Q93D9H7417

Great book for a budding EP staff member. A used 4th edition for cheap would probably be fine.

IBHRE Exam resources

http://pacericd.com/ibhre.htm (free)

http://atischool.org/product-category/books/(pricey books, make your hospital pay for them!)

Heart Rhythm Society (hrsonline.org) is one of the bigger societies related to EP.

eplqbdigest.com is a free resource/news magazine website. Signing up for the monthly printed magazine is free.

ECG

http://ecg.utah.edu/

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/author/edward-burns/

I read the review on amazon and someone reported there being several significant errors that were not corrected in the CD's. Here's just a couple of examples:
CD #7 Track 2: While discussing melting Jon says "It is interesting to relate thermodynamics to the heat curve... ...But the enthalpy change is NEGATIVE"

Jon should have said "It is interesting to relate thermodynamics to the heat curve... ...But the enthalpy change is POSITIVE" Both enthalpy change and entropy change are positive during melting. Everything else in the track still applies. If both entropy and enthalpy change are positive, delta G depends upon temperature.
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CD #7 Track #8: Jordan says "Lewis acids: donate; bases: accept." This is backwards. Lewis acids accept a pair of electrons and Lewis bases donate a pair of electrons.
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CD #7 track #10: Jordan says that the pH of a solution with a hydrogen ion concentration of 3.6x10^-4 is 4.5. It is 3.5.
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CD #7 Track #11: Jordan says "The log of A times B equals the log A times the log of B." He should say "The log of A times B equals the log of A plus the log of B."

http://www.amazon.com/Examkrackers-MCAT-Audio-Osmosis-Jordan/dp/1893858235

[this book](http://www.amazon.com/Isersons-Getting-Into-Residency-Students/dp/1883620368/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409576577&sr=8-1&keywords=iserson%27s+residency
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I have had the opportunity to sit on both my med school admissions committee and a couple of my residency rank list meetings and the biggest thing that it always boils down to is 1) Don't be a douche...seriously. You can have a 45 MCAT and have set up an HIV shelter in a 3rd world country, but if you're a douche nobody is going to want to work with you. 2) Common sense-that book is a pretty good resource (I used it for both med school and residency) 3) don't lie 4) It's all a game... if you show interest, they will show interest back. If you try too hard-they'll see right through it.

I'd recommend looking up the book The Sacred Heart: The Body Seen Through Invasive Surgery. Great pictures in there. Beautifully shot too.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sacred-Heart-Through-Invasive/dp/0821223771

Your friend has given you good advice for being a hireable academic. There are more openings in bioethics (relative to number of good candidates) than any other AOS. If you want to know where to go, a place to start is http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/breakdown/breakdown12.asp . If you want to know about the issues, it might be useful to check out something like http://www.amazon.com/Bioethics-Anthology-Blackwell-Philosophy-Anthologies/dp/1405129484/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1302796965&sr=8-2

We live in a society where people pushing products will say or do just about anything to promote their product. Of course, people selling bottled kombucha are no different.

Women were once sold infant formula because it was "sterile." Now we know the body needs what's natural.

Edit: Although I've not dealt with eczema myself, I've had a friend swear up and down that bowel cleansing is what cleared his up. Here is a book that might be helpful: Tissue Cleansing through Bowel Management. Enemas can be used instead of colonics, and yes, the topic is very uncomfortable in today's society, however, decades ago it was better understood that there was a place for enemas and improving health.

I used AACN's Core Curriculum Review and nothing else. I figured what better resource than the one written by the administrators of the exam. I found it comprehensive and concise and highly recommend it. You can find it on amazon here. Good luck!

We tend to use MacLeod's Clinical Examination here in Scotland and it is pretty great! Good detail, nice simple steps and explains what findings might mean, and it has an online resource too. There's a new edition coming out in June 2013 though so if you want the latest edition I'd hang fire or pre-order it.

Your NCLEX should not cover much of the more advanced critical care questions. The NCLEX trains you to be a generalist. I used this book and chugged through all the computerized practice questions and did just fine!

If you are just looking to further your own knowledge, I'd recommend CCRN study books. Many, like this one that I used for my CCRN exam have online or computerized question banks that are very helpful. However, the vast majority of these questions are going to be much higher-level than those that will be on the NCLEX.

Okay Mr. Ignorant......since you must clearly be five years old......I'll hold your hand. I was providing you with a cliff notes....but if you'd like to read more, here ya go:

http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Fractures-Kenneth-Egol/dp/1605477605/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345203481&sr=1-1&keywords=Fractures

http://www.amazon.com/Fracture-Management-Primary-Care-Consult/dp/143770428X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345203481&sr=1-2&keywords=Fractures

http://www.amazon.com/Broken-Bones-X-Ray-Fractures-ebook/dp/B002RL9IYY/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345203481&sr=1-3&keywords=Fractures

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Fracture-Treatment-Orthopaedic-Association/dp/0443068763/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345203481&sr=1-4&keywords=Fractures

http://www.amazon.com/Fractures-Hippocrates/dp/142503148X/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345203481&sr=1-6&keywords=Fractures

Shall I continue?

I bought the Blackwell Anthology for a course maybe three years ago, and still refer to it from time to time. Timmons also has an anthology called Disputed Moral Issues that is much more basic, but has a bit of a primer before each of the sections which may be useful.

Lastly, if you want to look specifically at how ethics is currently being done, probably the most pervasive ethics text is Beauchamp and Childress' the Principles of Biomedical Ethics. As far as existent policy on research ethics, you could take a look at the Canadian Tri-Council Policy on Ethics has a free education module, the Declaration of Helsinki or the Belmont Report.

Let me know if this helps or of you need anything else along these lines!

Try [Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management] (http://www.amazon.com/Tissue-Cleansing-Through-Bowel-Management/dp/0960836071). It's an older book that I inherited from my grandparents, but it's got some valuable information that is still very useful today.

Great book for the coffee table.

The Sacred Heart: An Atlas of the Body Seen Through Invasive Surgery

I have the black version of Fractures in Adults as well as the accompanying single volume of Fractures in Children. Jupiter's Skeletal Trauma is also very good.

For hands, the two volume Green's Hand Surgery is standard.

But, the first thing I'd recommend before any of those is the Handbook of Fractures. Go there first, then to the larger books for more in-depth knowledge.

Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics (4-volumes) still gets occasional use from me as well. Had to dust it off yesterday to see where the myocutaneous flap from a hip disarticulation was supposed to come from.

Things I learned for studying.

1. Do plenty of test questions. I used AACN's study guide and Pass CCRN.
   
2. Laura Gasparis Vonfrolio's DVDs are damn good.
   
   I went through the whole Pass CCRN book, but in hindsight, that was a HUGE waste of time. If I did it all over again, I'd take test questions, then review specifics with the Pass CCRN book and do all of Vonfrolio's DVDs.
   
   Good luck to any planning to take the CCRN. It's a bitch, but manageable.
   
   Cheers!

This is all you'll ever need. Macleod's Clinical Examination



You can also find the videos here

Good luck :)

Check out MCAT Audio Osmosis (http://www.amazon.com/Examkrackers-MCAT-Audio-Osmosis-Jordan/dp/1893858235) if you like studying this way. They go over pretty much everything, and while I did not use the recordings, I really liked the Examkrackers books.

I'll have to talk to my pre-med advisor about that move first! Not sure if there are any technicalities involved. In the meantime, I advise you to look at Barron's Essays That Get You Into Medical School. Short, concise, and helpful read. Definitely available at your local Barnes and Noble or off of Amazon here!

Hi carpevash.
Here is what I did.
I got the best rated book on amazon, studied for 2 days, passed the exam and returned the book lol.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610727991/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Are these the books that people get? https://www.amazon.com/Complete-7-Book-Subject-Review-2018-2019/dp/1506223958/ref=zg_bs_11693_2/144-2822295-9506565?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Z3WKNP4AE79EHJCXQ6CE








What seems to be the best way to approach taking on this monstrous task? Are some practice tests better than others? I do plan on covering everything in the books, but I wonder if there is a certain structure that people usually use (for example - doing subjects that they are most familiar or least familiar with first, or doing multiple subjects at once instead of doing all of chemistry, then all of physics, etc)

I am a person who likes to learn from other people's mistakes and successes. For this reason, I find books that describe what other people did extremely helpful. Here are some that really helped me:

First Aid for the Match

Iserson's Getting Into Residency

Every PGY-1 at my program gets a copy of Molavi which is a great intro text but is obviously more focused on surg path and less applicable to forensics. DiMaio has a good, affordable book that's more specific.

Read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Essays-That-Will-Medical-School/dp/0764142275/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1323586904&sr=1-1-catcorr

Basically, the best personal statements read like a story.

I recommend this book on this topic. It describes wonderfully how different systems of our brain perform Bayesian probability theory calculations, and communicate with each other using some analog kind of error-correcting codes.

I'm a Lange series shill. YMMV, but I loved this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Ethics-8th-Practical-Decisions/dp/0071845062/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497411123&sr=8-1&keywords=lange+medical+ethics

I bought The Medical School Interview: Secrets and a System for Success last year and it seemed to be pretty helpful in my preparation.

I did a majority of my self learning through the text books, and supplemented with mybrady, medic tests, and a couple of more advanced books like https://www.amazon.com/Only-Book-Youll-Ever-Need/dp/1496377230/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TN54Z1Z7N1PFDTFSKWFY

And for quick study I used this
https://www.amazon.com/Paramedic-Crash-Course-Online-Practice/dp/0738612464/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?keywords=paramedic+prep&qid=1574426568&sprefix=paramedic+prwp&sr=8-4

Richard Fogoros has a couple books that are good for general knowledge of electrophysiology and antiarrhythmic drugs

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0470674237/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1418841372&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SY200_QL40

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1405163518/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1418841372&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SY200_QL40

Murgatroyd is one of my favorites, but it's more directed for an EP lab setting.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1901346374/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1418841501&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX200_QL40

And if you want to go higher detail, Issa is what I go to

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1455712744/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1418841593&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SY200_QL40

I think this book is really excellent and I use it often. I was a lab tech prior to PA school.

Clinician's Guide to Laboratory Medicine: Pocket https://www.amazon.com/dp/0972556184/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_snRXAbWMAVP27

I loved the Robbins & Cotran Review textbook. Note also the review textbook is different from the basic path textbook and also different from the robbins atlas (which is exclusively histo and morphology & questions on the same) https://www.amazon.com/Robbins-Cotran-Atlas-Pathology-3e/dp/1455748765

There is no legal pdf of Pathoma.

Politicians must be knowledgeable on current events, and laws and policies that are in place or are being put up to vote on. So, that requires a lot of studying and gathering of information to be well-informed. As a graduate student, I also have to be versed in a lot of different information. So, my item is a textbook. All professionals need to read up on lots of different topics to be current on the topics in their field!

Go vote, kid.

Can someone find me these MCAT kaplan prep books in PDF version.

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-7-Book-Subject-Review-2018-2019/dp/1506223958

Buy this: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-7-Book-Subject-Review-2018-2019/dp/1506223958/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499609245&sr=8-1&keywords=kaplan

Read the whole thing and come back when you're done. Technically, you aren't allowed to post here until you have finished reading that but since you're 12, we'll let it slide.

The book by Fogoros is the standard.

Electrophysiologic Testing (Fogoros, Electrophysiologic Testing) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470674237/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_K3r.tb1A2F8PY