(Part 3) Reddit mentions: The best surgery books

If I may add my own recommendations to the list as well:

• Stone Butch Blues is an incredible, slightly heartbreaking, informative, interesting story about growing up trans starting in the (I think) 50s, and deals with gender identity, LGBTQ issues, feminism across the ages, etc. I cannot recommend it highly enough! Another summary is here.
  
  
• Chasing the Scream is a very well-researched look into the 'War on Drugs' and into drug policy, and it's written in a very engaging way. It's incredibly informative and I think everyone should read it, regardless of their personal stance on drugs. (The author has had some credibility issues before, but I believe he did this book after and thus everything is well-backed up).
  
  
• If you like sci-fi, Seveneves is amazing, hard (as in science-y, less so fantasy in space) sci-fi about saving mankind. The key characters are women, and it has some unique ideas.
  
  
• The Laundry Files are fun, easy to read modern fantasy (UK Civil Service meets spy film meets Cthulu?).
  
  
• Finally, Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss are both great fantasy writers. :)

It's a random recommendation but I quite liked "Chasing the scream" by Johann Hari

https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-Opposite-Addiction-Connection/dp/1620408910


How literate is he? For beginner maybe this book, looks cool. It's called Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Cheers-Anarchism-Autonomy-Meaningful-ebook/dp/B0091XBYWK/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=anarchism&qid=1568494157&s=books&sr=1-3


More serious book is like this one (has more history and such) https://www.amazon.com/Anarchism-Theory-Practice-Daniel-Gu%C3%A9rin/dp/0853451753/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=anarchism&qid=1568494157&s=books&sr=1-8

Also important to note that a lot of drug use is caused by mental illness.

I've recently been reading the book Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari, it's a very good look into how the War on Drugs and our demonization of addicts has only caused more pain and suffering than open drug policies would have caused.

Seems like this thread is very full of right-wingers who believe mentally ill people should just be locked up but I commend you for the enormous task you're undertaking. I wish you the best of luck dude

It would be a start, but if we really want to reduce deaths and crime, we should be supplying addicts with safe opioids.

I was somewhat impresses that the NS report didn't contain a bunch of 'more enforcement' items though. I guess that's setting the bar pretty low, but there's been a lot of talk in different levels of government on attempting to reduce the supply of opioids, which will just increase costs (and therefore related crime), and increase potency (no one smuggled beer during prohibition).

If anyone would like an interesting read on the topic, I recommend:

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

If you haven’t read Chasing the Scream, it is fascinating and touches on this topic.

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Every part of our system is for-profit industry. The FDA works with Legal Drug Makers; the DEA stops illegal drugs.

There is a union of companies that support the drug war; just as there are other companies and entities that support the war on drugs.

If you like good books; http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-First-Last-Drugs/dp/1620408910 is pretty good.

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Not sure how to notify like everyone in this whole comment thread, but if anyone is at all interested by the questions here please read this:

Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari

At the risk of repeating myself ad nauseam in this thread allow me to suggest "Chasing the Scream" by Johann Hari. It is pretty much regarded as the source regarding this topic.

Highly recommend reading "Chasing the Scream" for the history of the war on drugs in the US. It offers a few case studies for solutions at the end - pointing to a state by state legalization or a complete legalization like Portugal. Hari is an unbeatable writer, too.

She was hounded by the government.

I encourage everyone to read Johann Hari's book Chasing the Scream about the history of the drug war from the 1920s to the present.

He has an extended piece about Holiday and her place as a scapegoat for Harry Anslinger, head of the Bureau of Narcotics.

Here's an excerpt from the book about Holiday. If you have any interest in the drug war or history thereof, I highly recommend it.

legalize those too.

Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate are my suggestions.

Read Chasing the Scream http://amzn.to/2hzr4nk and Acid Dreams http://amzn.to/2hkDSlm to get a full picture of why we are where we are now.

What others are saying is right. It's a political move to criminalize minorities and rebellious youth cultures.

You should read the book "Chasing the Scream". It's makes a very very good argument against prohibition. You won't look at the drug problem the same again.

https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-First-Last-Drugs/dp/1620408910

You are wrong. After the prohibition ended, the mafia did greatly diminish and murders and violent crimes from them almost dissipated entirely overnight.

Of course it will take time for the gangs to greatly diminish, but it will happen.

I recommend reading Chasing the Scream for more in-debth research on this subject.

DO NOT DO THIS without doing a lot of research first. It should be a last resort. Turbinate reductions are a lot more dangerous than ENTs admit, and they rarely look into the underlying cause of your problems before doing them (such as allergies.) Before you even consider them, join the Empty Nose Syndrome Facebook group managed by Dr. Houser and ask them some detailed questions about the exact procedure your ENT is contemplating and the reasons why. It has a few hundred people that were told their procedure was perfectly safe (or not even told that it was going to be done) and many are so miserable they're suicidal. Some of them know far more about these procedures than the average ENTs from spending years reading every scrap of research that comes out hoping to find a cure or at least understanding their condition.

I myself had the most conservative and safe type of turbinate reduction done last year, and my ENT told me he'd be even more conservative than usual, and I wish more than anything I could undo it. I've been in horrendous discomfort since, which has only in the last few months improved to "moderately bearable." To this day the dryness and general "off" and painful breathing feeling is extremely distracting and depressing. And there's nothing they can do.

The thing about the turbinates is once you touch them, you can't fix them. So if you end up getting ENS, which your doctor (as mine did) will tell you is impossible to get without a total resection, you're pretty much stuck with it for life, and it's considered a major suicide risk, that's how much fun it is. As a young guy, it's life changing.

I would do a ton of research first, including reading this book, and try all sorts of other remedies such as daily saline rinses using the squeeze bottle and packets.

As a last resort I'd do a septalplasty only without turbinate reduction, and only then would I do a turbinate reduction, and ONLY from an ENT that recognizes the risk of ENS and is more likely to be careful about preserving tissue.

I recommend the book Chasing the Scream for anyone interesting in learning more about this subject, how the war on drugs started, how different countries have dealt with the problem, and stories of individuals who have been deeply affected by the war on all different sides.

This is the only solution. The only way to end the drug war is to end the drug war. For anyone who can’t comprehend this please take some time to really consider the other side of the argument. I suggest starting here with the most eye opening book you’ll ever read on the subject.

A printed version just for you: Chasing the Scream.

"Most dangerous" might or might not have been a slight exaggeration on my part, but not much. As for how things change when a substance is legalized, Chasing the Scream will tell you all about how and why use of heroin and other drugs has plummeted since becoming legal in Portugal.

Agreed. It does swing pretty far sometimes. That being said, personally, it's hard for me as a current anesthesiology resident not to say anything bad about them. Their hatred against "MDAs" and indoctrination starts pretty early in CRNA school, and yes, they do go through nursing school and a couple of years in an ICU (a 7-bed ICU counts, apparently), but it's not medical school or residency--nowhere near it.

It's hard not to hate the AANA when they implement bullshit like changing SRNA (student registered nurse anesthetist) to RRNA (resident registered nurse anesthetist) and coercing their trainees to start referring to CRNA school clinical rotations as their "residency." That, coupled with the fact that there is an immeasurable difference between being told what to do in an ICU and making the decision yourself (i.e., residency training) makes it really hard not to be bitter when they claim to have equal training, albeit in "nurse anesthesiology." Eye roll.

When "RRNAs" go through their clinical rotations, they are paired with a CRNA who stays in the room with them for the entire case, every single time. I have not had an attending stay in a case with me for more than 5 minutes after intubation unless they wanted to shoot the shit, and I only call them if the patient becomes very unstable or upon emergence when the drapes are coming down. Other than that and morning/lunch breaks, I make all intra-op management decisions independently with no other anesthesia personnel in the room, and occasionally, I've not seen the attending until after I've extubated the patient, taken them to PACU, and have the next patient in the O.R. ready to be induced.

Sometimes I do think maybe I wasted all that time and effort to do well in medical school and residency only to end up doing the same shit a CRNA can do, but who the fuck knows? Anesthesiology is not that hard 95% of the time, but when you or your family member is in that 5%, it's probably going to matter who's behind that drape.

For questions 1 and 2, read this book:

About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
by Amazon.com
Learn more: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0671695347/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_kta1DbXWYZZFK

Hackworth goes into extreme detail on the problems with how the Vietnam war was lead including McNamara's obsession with body counts as an indicator of victory.

For question 4, read this book:

Chasing the Scream: The Opposite of Addiction is Connection
by Amazon.com
Learn more: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1620408910/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_-Fa1DbKVVVJEX

Hari goes into detail on why sodiers in Vietnam did drugs and why the majority of them were able to stop once the war was over. There is little connection between Afghanistan and the current opioid crisis at least as far as soldiers working in a region with opium is concerned.

As far as the question about communication equipment vs yelling, there are several good reasons for yelling as opposed to using coms. First, yelling ALWAYS works. Unless you get shot in your airway, you can almost always yell commands. Coms can breakdown or get lost, broadcasts can be jammed. Coms are expensive, yelling is free. Yelling is also localized. Troops 100 meters away do not hear it effectively but close troops can. Coms broadcast to everyone on the frequency regardless of range. Coms also do not distinguish who is speaking unless call signs are used. If every troop had coms, they couldn't all start talking. They would have to wait their turn. In a firefight, waiting may mean death or worse. Special operators do use sophisticated coms as they approach a target, but still fall back on yelling while in a localized fire fight.