(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best pathology books

A book that might interest you and him is Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man. Marcuse was a Marxist thinker, and he wrote that book as a criticism of what the individual has become in advanced industrial society. He is a clear and entertaining writer, and he has a lot of examples to support his ideas.

A much harder book from a non-Marxist perspective is Stanley Cavell's The Claim of Reason. Cavell is a tricky writer--he's hard to read quickly, and he doesn't have totally organized arguments. Nonetheless, he talks a lot about what it means to be human and what it means to deny one's own or another's humanity. I'd only recommend this book if your partner knows something about philosophy already.

Then there is a thinker like Emmanuel Levinas, who writes about how it is to experience other people. He's also a bit tough to read, but he has a fascinating and highly influential idea of our ethical responsibility to other people. His classic work is Totality and Infinity.

Existentialism talks a great deal about what it is to be human. The thinker Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that there is no human nature, only a human condition. His big book is Being and Nothingness.

The German thinker Hannah Arendt might just be the closest fit to your partner's interest. She wrote a book called The Human Condition that is all about what it means to act.

One last suggestion: it's not quite philosophy per se, but if your partner is interested in technology and media and the effects it has on people, then Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man might be a good gift. McLuhan is not a hard writer, and he has short chapters. He's a bit of a funny writer though, not only because he makes jokes but because he sometimes makes claims without even an attempt to back them up. However, the book is a blast for someone who is interested in how, say, the electric lightbulb changed human life. Of the books I've mentioned here, it's probably the easiest read.

Hope those suggestions help. By the way, if you could give a sense of your partner's education level it would help. As I said, the Cavell book is probably best for someone who has studied philosophy in depth already. On the other hand, I think a beginner could get into McLuhan and work through Marcuse.

I would definitely start with a Med Chem textbook. I've not read the one that u/fourninetwo posted but I use Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry pretty frequently (which is also on TPB) and think its pretty good. Or an amazon link

Thanks for doing this again! I saved your posts from previous years and read them recently. They're definitely helpful and appreciated.

For anyone else who might want something to read before intern year, I'm reading 'resident readiness: general surgery (amazon link - Our school library gets us access to the electronic copy, so yours might as well). I'm only doing 2 cases / day which takes me about 30 - 60 minutes if I'm slow. I literally just wake up, do the 2 cases then dick around for the rest of the day. It's such a tiny amount of effort and you actually learn something with plenty of time to relax for the rest of the day.

inb4: "where are the memes? stfu. gunner. chill brah no one expects you to know anything lol".

I would start with textbooks then move to reviews then to original research (but you probably won't get that far until actually in the job.)

Perhaps go by system if you want and look at the relevant basic sciences (anatomy/physiology/biochem/pharm etc), clinical medicine/surgery and then clinical skills (history taking/examination/procedural skills etc) for the major systems eg CVS, resp, endo, GI, gen surgery, neuro. I've linked an example textbook I used.

It's pretty tough to teach yourself the material to be honest so focus on the patient not the underlying science, go through cases (such as those featured in NEJM) to get a picture of the ambiguity involved in medicine. Visit websites such as almostadoctor, handwrittentutorials, trickcyclists, geekymedics123, DoctorNajeeb, teachmeanatomy, become familiar with the language and the feel of medicine as well as establishing some knowledge foundations. It's knowledge, skills and attitude that make a professional not just knowledge.

Interesting - I was reading about this just today

Fever production has a postive effect on the course of infection. However, for every 1 degree celsius rise in temperature, there is a 13% increase in resting metabolic rate and oxygen consumption. Fever therefore leads to increased energy requirements at a time when anorexia (caused by the release of cytokines in the body's immunological response to pathogens - bacteria or virus') leads to decreased food intake. The normal compensatory mechanisms in starvation (e.g mobilization of fat stores) are inhibited in acute infections. this leads to an increase in skeletal muscle break-down releasing amino-acids, which, via gluconeogensis are used to provide energy.

Source (page 87)

They teach it at American universities right now. They were scientific terms first, and they won't stop being used because people have coopted them into slurs.

I work with people who have disabilities, and there are still national organizations with "mental retardation" in their names. A scientific term is a scientific term.

Also...

Feel free to see chapter 7 of Introduction to Forensic Anthropology (2010), which is entirely about attribution of ancestry. Figure 7.1 shows "Skulls of the three main ancestral groups: (a) White; (b) Asian; (c) Black." Table 7.2 lists the 16 "Anthroposcopic Characteristics of the Skull of the Three Main Ancestral Groups in the United States." On the postcranial skeletion, it explains that "Generally, Blacks are characterized by straight femoral shafts. However, with the exception of some Native Americans from South America, all Asians and Whites are characterized by femora that exhibit anterior curvature. (Stewart, 1962)"

There is plenty more information there for you. It is an entire chapters of the book, after all. Would you like to argue about chapter 8, "Attribution of Sex," as well?

My favorite AP reference is Silverberg's Principles and Practice of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology (https://www.amazon.com/Silverbergs-Principles-Practice-Pathology-Cytopathology/dp/0443066221/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1467142262&sr=1-2&keywords=silverberg+pathology), although most people prefer the one from Rosai.

I would also go over your histology again - this might be a good book to check out:
https://www.amazon.com/Histology-Pathologists-Stacey-Mills-MD/dp/145111303X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1467142209&sr=1-1&keywords=histology+for+pathologists

Also, I never realized how small of a community pathology is until I graduated from residency - don't make any enemies :)

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.

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That's a very tortured reading of just one of the stories of a post-resurrection appearance.

I was thinking about what you said about us deserving more proof. Frankly, I think we've got far more than we have any right to when compared to previous generations.

In Jesus' day, only a few thousand people saw him work a miracle. Only a thousand at most saw him after the resurrection. In all of human history, seeing the supernatural has been confined to a relative handful of people.

Today, though, every single person in the developed world has access to

• scientific proof the universe began at a finite moment in time
  
  
• solid evidence of intentional design in the fabric of the universe, our planet, and biology
  
  
• documented evidence of miracles
  
  
• documented evidence of a non-material aspect of humans, some would even say of life after death
  
  
• solid evidence that the gospels are trustworthy
  
  
• and evidence that whether the gospels are historically reliable or merely "religious stories", Jesus really did rise from the dead.
  
  No, we don't get to see Jesus in the flesh -- walking on water or otherwise -- but we've got more than any generation since his has had. Far more. And we're going to be held responsible for what we did with that privilege.

Top picks from me-

Foucar- Blood and Bone Marrow

Shaz- Transfusion Medicine and Hemostasis

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Two books I used most for the Australian RCPA haematopathology exams. Foucar is in dot point form, doubles as an atlas. Has malignant and non-malignant chapters though only- as the name suggests- blood and bone marrow topics. There is a Lymph Node version in the Diagnostic Pathology series- in Australia that's the realm of Anatomical Pathologists so can't comment on it. If your lab has ExpertPath access it's largely the same content I believe.

WHO book is essential though hopefully already 100 copies floating around your lab. Jaffe's Hematopathology is more comprehensive in terms of explanations behind the WHO diagnostic categories, though of course heavy going.

Blood Bank Guy lecture series and podcasts are quite well regarded.

From an older CAP accreditation checklist:
>GEN.20375 Phase II
Does the laboratory have a document control system?

>It is recommended that the laboratory maintain a control log listing all current policies and procedures and the locations of copies (including derivative documents such as card files and summary charts). The control log may contain other information as appropriate, such as dates when policies/procedures were placed in service, schedule of review, identity of reviewer(s), and dates when policies/procedures were discontinued/superceded.

If you want to read deeper, it references Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). Laboratory Documents:
Development and Control; Approved Guideline—Fifth Edition. and ISO 15189:2003

Those are old documents and standards though. AFAIK, these now need to be reviewed and signed off on by management on an annual basis. I haven't read through the latest guidelines, but I have definitely noticed a crackdown on what's allowed to hang around lately.

Anatomic Path - Sternberg

Neuropath - Ellison & Love

Forensics - Spitz & Fisher

also a fun coffee table book useful for alienating visitors to your home

Rubin's Question and Answer book is pretty good too. Or you can buy the ebook version and do it online.

As someone pointed out in this thread Wikipedia should be fine for your needs. Pathology Made Ridiculously Simple is a good book for general understanding of diseases. In fact Made Incredibly Easy and Made Ridiculously Simple series is a good way to understand a lot of basic stuff.

I just finished my IM residency. I know it's more than ten complaints, but take a look at the ones they chose to cover in this book for clerkship: https://www.amazon.ca/Case-Files-Internal-Medicine-Fourth/dp/0071761721

I personally found that the topics were really well selected and I found it really helpful to read around some of these cases/topics in preparation for starting residency a few years back. The content they cover in the book is more at the med student level so use it as a guide, not a comprehensive text.

Starting medical school in September and this is one of the books I need to buy. I'm currently working a minimum wage job in London- all of my wage goes on rent and food. Just this small thing would help a lot. :)

I use this book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-100-Drugs-Pharmacology-Prescribing/dp/0702055166

And it covers most things I come across

literally, case files series.

here's IM as a preview: http://www.amazon.com/Files-Internal-Medicine-Fourth-Edition/dp/0071761721

The "Case Files" frequently read for Shelves and Step 2 prep, are those the Lange Case Files? Thank-you.

https://www.amazon.com/Files-Internal-Medicine-Fourth-LANGE/dp/0071761721

In my medicinal chemistry classes (pharmacy specific) we use Foye's, which is supposedly the medicinal chemistry textbook. https://www.amazon.com/Foyes-Prin (possibly more for PharmD specific than hard Chem specific) ciples-Medicinal-Chemistry-Williams/dp/1609133455