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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

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Great book that everyone should read
A timely book for improved performance in healthcare
I'm getting his other book!
Terrific
A good read

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande
Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books
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ASIN: 0805082115
Release Date: 2007-04-03

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The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. Gawandes gripping stories of diligence, ingenuity, and what it means to do right by people take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, to labor and delivery rooms in Boston, to a polio outbreak in India, and to malpractice courtrooms around the country. He discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors participation in lethal injections, examines the influence of money on modern medicine, and recounts the astoundingly contentious history of hand washing. And as in all his writing, Gawande gives us an inside look at his own life as a practicing surgeon, offering a searingly honest firsthand account of work in a field where mistakes are both unavoidable and unthinkable. At once unflinching and compassionate, Better is an exhilarating journey narrated by arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around (Salon). Gawandes investigation into medical professionals and how they progress from merely good to great provides rare insight into the elements of success, illuminating every area of human endeavor.

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Great book that everyone should read.......2007-06-27

Whether you are interested in medicine or want to be more in touch with medicine and healthcare, this is a great book for you! I enjoyed the stories and the commentary about health care in the US. It was easy to understand and facinating. I am now reading Dr. Gawande's other book.

A timely book for improved performance in healthcare.......2007-06-27

At a time when comments on U.S. health care are loaded with inflammatory speech and defensive posturing, Gawande offers us a refreshing, moderate, and reflective look at modern health care delivery. Using his journalistic/investigative approach to answering questions, Gawande puzzles through current issues in medicine. His candid presentation helps to strip away the reader's preconceptions.
Gawande uses engaging clinical scenarios to describe medical improvement as a sometimes untidy plunge into the unknown. He discusses how progress can be made in improving physician performance and offers advice to those who want to make a positive difference in the world. With his introspective, poignant observations and engaging style, Gawande breathes new life into the conventional medical establishment and demonstrates a clear understanding of the human condition.

I'm getting his other book!.......2007-06-26

A very human view of the great and the not-so-good aspects of doctors and doctoring.
This was well-written, informative and enjoyable.
It was nice to read about doctors doing it against the odds in real life and the practical obstacles in their way.
I will recommend it to my friends.

Terrific.......2007-06-21

This should be required reading for anyone wanting better service, whether from their doctor or from the internal revenue service. His stories are compelling and to the point. Over and over, he points out that often small, subtle factors make a huge difference in medical outcomes. Surprise -- the ability to listen turns out to be a key diagnostic skill. It helps that he writes so well. PS The next time you go into the hospital ask the nurse or doctor to wash their hands. Gawande tells you why!

A good read.......2007-06-02

The inspiration for this review has come from Dr. Gawande's fourth suggestion to `write something'. He has done a fabulous job of giving us a rare insight into the ecosystem of medical professionals. I must admit that his book has provided a very detailed picture of what the global healthcare system faces today. The three principles of a person being diligent, doing what is right, and using ingenuity are nicely elucidated with the help of stories from his own observations and experiences. This makes for a lucid and interesting piece of written work. However, this comes with a warning. He has tried to involve his reader emotionally throughout his stories, which can be uncomfortable for some. Also, his examples of clinical medicine in emerging countries have not been fairly portrayed, in my opinion, to explain the reasons for the disparities in care. He has praised individual achievement in spite of adversity, but has not delved deeper into the problem of mismatch between the sheer number of patients and resources available, something very uncommon in the West. He has ended his book well by giving five suggestions that are `lessons' from the book and these will prove handy most readers. The key lesson for me was, again, to write something as a way of participating in the process. Everyone will learn something new from this book.

By Kunal Sood

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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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Intelligently written.
The Best Doctors Are Fallible
Captivating Read!
A Great Read !!!
Excellent writing and will challenge your assumptions about medicine

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Atul Gawande
Manufacturer: Picador
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Complications- A Surgeons Notes on an Imperfect Science

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Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine--on either end of the stethoscope. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job, and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Gawande's tales are humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. His prose is thoughtful and deeply engaging, shifting from sometimes painful stories of suffering patients (including his own child) to intriguing suggestions for improving medicine with the same care he expresses in the surgical theater. Some of his ideas will make health care providers nervous or even angry, but his disarming style, confessional tone, and thoughtful arguments should win over most readers. Complications is a book with heart and an excellent bedside manner, celebrating rather than berating doctors for being merely human. --Rob Lightner

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Intelligently written. .......2007-06-08

If you have ever wondered about this body of yours and about what goes on in the minds of Doctors who treat the many ailments of this body of yours,this is certainly the book for you. Never has a book of Non-fiction managed to be such a riveting read.

Atul Gawande has written with intelligence, honesty, and with extreme respect and tenderness towards the many people that he introduces the reader to. Many of the complicated procedures of surgery are described in the most understandable language,that a person with no medical training such as I , feel very smart now!!
I thank Gawande for this wonderful book, and hope to read his " Better" soon.

The Best Doctors Are Fallible.......2007-06-01

This is the sobering message of Atul Gawande's excellent book. A writer for the "New Yorker" as well as a practicing surgeon (how does he do it?), Gawande reflects on his profession as it really is--human beings trying to help other human beings.

Gawande makes a persuasive case, on the one hand, for the routinization of medicine. He cites the amazing record of a hospital in Toronto which does only hernia operations. The goal is not a high success rate, but perfection, and the doctors there do hundreds of hernia repairs in a year--more than a general surgeon does in a lifetime. But Gawande also points out that fallibility is the price humans pay for being instinctive, for having that sixth sense that all of us often ignore at our peril. It was this sense that saved the life of a young patient who appeared to have a simple bacterial infection--having seen a far more deadly form of it recently, Gawande urged a biopsy, and against all odds he was right. An over-conscientious resident? Was he overdiagnosing? Performing an unnecessary, costly test? That's what we'd say if he had been wrong.

Gawande writes with a humility and sensitivity that the stereotype of the typical surgeon doesn't have. We owe it to ourselves to be well-informed as consumers of medical services--but that needn't be burdensome or boring. I highly recommend "Complications."

Captivating Read!.......2007-06-01

I am considering a career change to medicine and have recently undergone several surgeries myself. This was an eye-opening book that says what you know deep down, but that doctors usually will not admit: They may try their best, but they do not have all the answers and they do make mistakes. It's thoughtfully written, and full of compassion for his patients. It made me wish Dr. Gawande was my doctor. Every doctor should read to not lose sight of the patient perspective, and every patient should read to understand why they cannot expect perfection from medicine.

A Great Read !!!.......2007-05-25

This book has such great detail thta you feel that you are right there and involved. The author is really good at defining medical terminology and, what others might not understand. Very good, if you interested in the medical field.

Excellent writing and will challenge your assumptions about medicine.......2007-05-24

Gawande is a wonderful, vivid writer and this book was well chosen as a National book Award finalist. He is not afraid to admit some errors he made along the way, including some regretable hubris that harmed some patients but he also writes about the way doctors learn - and the limits and challenges they still face in the imperfect world of medicine, where so much depends on following one's instincts, in spite of so many advances.
Whether learning about how autopsies first came to be used (for religious reasons) or how a newscaster dealt with a disabling case of blushing or about how and why "Good Doctors go Bad" (and how they are treated), I found this book a rich compendium of useful facts and information.
It will also help you ask the right questions next time you have to face a medical decision, large or small, guiding you to ask the right questions of your doctor.

Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

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Now what?
How a surgeon deals with death
Great book
A MUST READ FOR ALL OF US ON OUR JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE
Physician, Heal Thyself

Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Pauline W. Chen
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About Alice

ASIN: 0307263533
Release Date: 2007-01-09

Book Description

A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition.

When Pauline Chen began medical school twenty years ago, she dreamed of saving lives. What she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found herself wrestling with medicine’s most profound paradox, that a profession premised on caring for the ill also systematically depersonalizes dying. Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her education, training, and practice as she grapples at strikingly close range with the problem of mortality, and struggles to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate knowledge of shared humanity, and to separate her ideas about healing from her fierce desire to cure.

From her first dissection of a cadaver in gross anatomy to the moment she first puts a scalpel to a living person; from the first time she witnesses someone flatlining in the emergency room to the first time she pronounces a patient dead, Chen is struck by her own mortal fears: there was a dying friend she could not call; a young patient’s tortured death she could not forget; even the sense of shared kinship with a corpse she could not cast aside when asked to saw its pelvis in two. Gradually, as she confronts the ways in which her fears have incapacitated her, she begins to reject what she has been taught about suppressing her feelings for her patients, and she begins to carve out a new role for herself as a physician and as human being. Chen’s transfixing and beautiful rumination on how doctors negotiate the ineluctable fact of death becomes, in the end, a brilliant questioning of how we should live.

Moving and provocative, motored equally by clinical expertise and extraordinary personal grace, this is a piercing and compassionate journey into the heart of a world that is hidden and yet touches all of our lives. A superb addition to the best medical literature of our time.

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Now what?.......2007-06-04

As an undergraduate humanities teacher, I have often observed how unimaginative pre-med students can be (as well as very bright, of course). So this sensitively written, introspective memoir is a surprise and delight. I am, as an older person now, also happy to see medical activism admitting its ultimate helplessness in the face of human mortality. After all doctors eventually lose every one of their patients, don't they? On the other hand, what has Pauline to offer us in the face of the ultimate modern terror except a tear and some time? I understand that is the best we often have these days, but it's not much. As a medievalist, I live much of my life in a world where this fragile life and this frail body are passing things to be happily cast off of as a precondition to an eternal life free of the suffering that Chen sets before us so poignantly.
I am not suggesting that the beliefs of the medieval world were correct but that our ancestors had a rich tradition of ideas, feelings and rituals with which to face this ultimate challenge to life as we know it. If the price of the modern world's enormous skill in prolonging life was dependent on overthrowing the beliefs of traditional Western culture, what have we gained but a few more years and the terror of slipping alone into eternal darkness? I hope Pauline weeps for that as well someday; if she can write another book afterwards, it may well be a masterpiece.

How a surgeon deals with death.......2007-05-30

As shocking and gory as the medical world is portrayed on television, it seldom comes close to reality, a lesson that Pauline W. Chen regurgitates in FINAL EXAM as she describes her academic (and continuing) education in the most difficult of all lessons: dealing with death.

I'm no psychologist, but sometimes I wonder if doctors go into the profession because of a God complex, where they wield such awesome power; patients defer to their wisdom and put their fates completely into their hands. Then comes the inevitable day when the physician loses her first patient, whether due to something she did or didn't do, or because nature has taken its course. It must be quite a blow to the ego.

Then the transformation occurs.

The doctor can go one of two ways. She can either steel herself against death or learn from it and become a more compassionate caregiver.

Chen, who attended Harvard University and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, paints a compelling picture, but one that is not for the squeamish. She discusses her first interaction with a corpse as she and her fellow med students learned anatomy through dissection. The respect and "relationship" that developed is touching, as Chen realizes this former life force had a history, a family, hopes and dreams, just as she does.

Over the course of her studies and through her residency, Chen learns that her work is not parceled out as neatly as television shows such as "ER" and "Grey's Anatomy." The victims do not lie in bed neatly as doctors and nurses struggle to keep them alive. They slide around, bleed, moan and cry out.

There is no part of Chen's story that isn't saturated with sadness, even as she is learning. Every new character is destined to die. How will Chen respond? Will she reach out to the dying man and his family? Will she try to hide until the end has come and avoid it all?

For all the emotion, Chen does not come down on one side or the other on the technology that is available to keep the patient going. Indeed, most of the people she discusses have decided to go out on their own terms.

What must one feel upon being given that death sentence? How does a doctor ever get used to passing down that sentence, when nothing else can be done? "[T]he words emerge," Chen writes in a chapter titled "Sorry to inform you" "so softly that I see everyone leaning in as I speak. 'I wonder,' I hear myself saying to these people, 'if you have thought of what you want at the end of life?'"

Taking a very cynical stance, as lofty as the author's intentions are, FINAL EXAM reminds me of a line from "I'm a Loser": "Is it for her or myself that I cry?"

--- Reviewed by Ron Kaplan

Great book.......2007-05-28

It's a great book. Excellent for people going to med school or health professions.

A MUST READ FOR ALL OF US ON OUR JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE.......2007-05-28

A SENSITIVE AND ERUDITE CHRONICLE OF THE GROWTH AND HUMANITY OF A YOUNG
PHYSICAN, DR. CHEN TAKES US THROUGH HER MEDICAL TRAINING AND RELATIONSHIPS
WITH PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILYS. IN MOVING PROSE, SHE TEACHES HERSELF, PHYSICIANS AND HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, AND ALL OF US WHO WILL SOMEDAY FACE OUR "FINAL EXAM", HOW TO "PASS" WITH DIGNITY AND PEACE. WE CAN ONLY HOPE OUR
MEDICAL CARE WILL BE IN THE HANDS AND HEART OF SUCH A PHYSICIAN.

Physician, Heal Thyself.......2007-05-24

Towards the end of FINAL EXAM, author Pauline Chen describes harvesting organs from a brain-dead patient who bore a strong physical resemblance to herself. Soon afterward she began to write stories, mostly about her experiences with patients. When she took a creative writing class, her teacher was clearly impressed by the authentic quality of what Chen had to relate and told her, "Pauline, you have to write these stories." This book is the the completion and gathering of those stories.

FINAL EXAM is an account of Chen's evolving understanding of what she could and couldn't accomplish as a physician and surgeon. She begins with a description of her "relationship" with the cadaver she was assigned in medical school and goes on to describe a number of patients who died under her care. It is gratifying that she seemed to learn something from each experience and was able to use these experiences to strengthen her skills as a caregiver. Also important to these stories are Chen's descriptions of her relationships with her medical colleagues (including nurses, interns, and medical students) and of the bonds she was able to forge in spite of the impossible schedule and stresses that are unavoidable in that profession. Each story is powerful and moving. And each story made me think about the kind of care I want to receive (and demand) as the end of my life approaches. This is a wise and gentle book. Chen's vision and power of expression come mightily close to the poetry found in S. Nuland's masterpiece, HOW WE DIE, a work Chen is familiar with and quotes from. One can only hope that many doctors will read her reflections and absorb their important message.

Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

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A powerful message but not scientifically prooven
hope, but not false hope
a read that cheers you up
Required reading for anyone facing a health crisis
For 20 years it has been the gift of love to those I care about

Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients
Bernie S. Siegel
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day--patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery.

"Run, don't walk, to the nearest bookstore and get this amazing book that explains how you can 'think' yourself sick or well...Every family should have a copy. It can be a lifesaver."
--Ann Landers

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A powerful message but not scientifically prooven.......2007-06-26

Bernie's central theme is that there is a strong correlation between emotional health and physical health. However he rarely cites any scientific evidence for his claim. He keeps repeating this message based on his experiences with random patients. Surely one can conclude many things from random patients, but a theory has to applicable accross a large sample. There has to be a 'control' if the study is to have any scientific merit. I wished he had shown more of these studies.

This would definitely be a five star book had the author been more scientific in prooving his point. Nevertheless I do personally agree with it.

hope, but not false hope.......2007-05-15

I'd pretty much accepted that i was going to die from cancer. My doctors had too. My friend gave me this book and it caused a huge attitude shift in me. Now I feel that I have it within me to heal and live a long happy and healthy life. I've been told there is nothing medically can be done for me. If I hadn't read this book first I would have just laid down and died when they told me. But now I've opened myself up to other tools for healing - good diet, wheatgrass, reiki, meditation and absolutely no sugar. Time will tell, but I think I'm on the right track.

I thought this book was so good that I ordered a copy to give to my oncologist. He's a lovely man and I believe his desire to help his patients will lead him to use this book as a useful tool in the future.

a read that cheers you up.......2007-05-10

Everybody who is confused and scared about what they are going through due to serious health problems should read this book. "Healthy" people also, they will learn a lot.

Required reading for anyone facing a health crisis.......2007-05-09

I'm submitting essentially the same review for Love, Medicine and Miracles as for Peace, Love and Healing. I read them in that sequence and also recommend that others read them in that sequence: Peace, Love, and Healing is very much a continuation of the earlier book. Having said that, the most important thing is for anyone facing a health crisis to read them both. The sequence in which they're read is less important than that they be read--and absorbed.

I was introduced to these books shortly after having been diagnosed with cancer by another person who was (and still is, unfortunately) dealing with some major health issues. Although I've read tons of stuff relating to cancer and, especially, treatments of various types and stripes, I can't think of anything that provided greater value and (even) guidance to me during those challenging days, mainly because getting the "head" right is half the battle--and the half of the battle that all too many completely neglect. One of the things that Bernie makes imminently clear to the reader is that he/she, the reader, has a great deal of power over the course of his/her illness. That's an important message to someone feeling powerless. Plenty of powerful examples, thought exercises, etc. The messages are uplifting, hopeful, life-affirming, empowering, and above all, realistic.

Although I was vaguely aware of the mind-body connection before reading these books, I now understand that psychoneuroimmunology (if that is an unfamiliar term, you will become familiar with it by the time you've read Peace, Love and Healing) is real and can potentially be harnessed to the patient's great benefit: change the mind, change the body.

Naturally, I can't do justice to these books with a few short sentences here. But here's the bottom line: these books should be read by anyone facing a health crisis who sincerely wants to get well. But they should also be read by anyone who has a friend or loved one facing a health crisis. Read them yourself before you send them on to the friend/loved one. You'll find them valuable both for yourself and also for helping your friend/loved one deal with it. The books should be read by anyone facing a life-threatening illness, but their value transcends cancer (or other serious illness) self-help by a long shot, valuable as that is. Even if your present health seems to be good, you should still read these books. They will help you live more effectively even if you never get sick. And they will surely equip you to deal with a major illness if you ever have to face one.

For 20 years it has been the gift of love to those I care about.......2007-02-02

I have given this book to friends and families for over 20 years when I was at a loss as to what to say, do, or give to express my empathy for their road ahead. This book has great "mojo" and gives credence to "miracles" do happen as every person I've given this book to is still here to give it to others facing the same challenges. I'm writing this as I'm ordering it for the adult son of someone who has been given 6 months to live---they have their issues (don't we all with our fathers?) and I sincerely hope Dr. Siegel's words will bring comfort to him and his wife during his father's process of leaving this life for the next.

Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Ninth Edition

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Everything you need to know to be an EMT-B
The EMT book that could
Excellent, but short of goal...
Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Ninth Edition (Purchased on 01/11/2006)

Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Ninth Edition
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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For nearly 35 years, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has been a driving force in the field of EMS education, first by publishing Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured. Now, the Ninth Edition continues that dedication and commitment to training future EMT-Basics and the instructors who are paving their way.

Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Ninth Edition is the center of an integrated teaching and learning system that will help define the future direction of EMS education. It combines comprehensive medical content with dynamic new features and interactive technology to better support instructors and to help prepare students for the field.

An interactive skills DVD is packaged free with each copy of the text.

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Everything you need to know to be an EMT-B.......2007-03-27

It has many illustrations, in depth anatomy coverage. However, sometimes there's critical scenarios that are past over very quickly, and you might not think it's important. Also, there should be some NREMT sample questions at the end of each question.

The EMT book that could.......2007-02-20

So the book came in good condition. It works for me and is great for learning from. Might I mention it is a text book so if your looking at buying it then you probly have to buy it anyway.

Excellent, but short of goal..........2006-08-04

This book and DVD is probably the best written text for EMT-B there is. Take the time (a lot!) to read it thoroughly. It does miss the mark if you solely rely on it to take the National EMT-B test: press your instructor's for the many detail's not in this book that are on the test if you want to pass!

Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Ninth Edition (Purchased on 01/11/2006).......2006-03-03

It's horriable. I still havn't recieved it, and the dates you say the item will ship keep changing. This is for a class, and we've reached mid-term and I still have not recieved this book. It's a good thing i found a loner, won't be buying class materials from amazon anymore.

Denny Hostetler
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Healing from the Heart: A Leading Surgeon Combines Eastern and Western Traditions to Create the Medicine of the Future

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An unexpected side effect
Not yet Synergy
Heart on Heart!!
The Heart Can Thrive on Positive Thoughts.
A Good Combination

Healing from the Heart: A Leading Surgeon Combines Eastern and Western Traditions to Create the Medicine of the Future
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Mehmet Oz is a Renaissance man of cardiac care, combining yoga, aromatherapy, hypnosis, energy healing, music therapy, acupuncture, and visual imagery into his surgery practice at the Complementary Care Unit of New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He's adamant that the relationship between traditional and alternative medicine should be symbiotic, not mutually exclusive. His patients are proof of this: when treated holistically, not as just "another transplant patient" with a plaque-addled heart, they perceive less pain during surgery and recuperation, are less likely to suffer depression, and heal more quickly.

While med school at the University of Pennsylvania didn't expose Oz to the holistic healing methods he employs today, his upbringing in Turkey and exposure to cultures worldwide did leave him open to new ideas. Oz helped develop the LVAD, or left ventricular assist device, which helps the heart of a patient awaiting a transplant keep pumping. Piqued when he was asked about his patients, "But has restoring their hearts restored their health?"--and he had to respond, "No"--Oz started incorporating one alternative method after another into his practice. He started with massage after seeing how it rejuvenated his wife after childbirth.

Healing from the Heart is not for the weak of stomach; Oz occasionally gets graphic, such as in the opening heart-transplant scene: "I finished closing the last tiny bleeder, then called for the electric saw, which was plugged in and handed to me by its metallic handle ... the saw cut through the bone like soft pine." If there's anything that might inspire you to pass up greasy French fries, this book is it. Current cardiac patients and their families will be enthralled by the tale of Oz's holistic revolution and his patient-success stories, and other health practitioners would do well to pay attention to what he advocates. --Erica Jorgensen

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"The medicine of the new millennium."--Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words

Dr. Mehmet Oz, celebrated heart surgeon and co-founder of the Complementary Care Center at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, is spearheading the health-care revolution that is yielding powerful new healing tools that will forever change the way we think of medicine. In this ground-breaking book, he describes his pioneering work--combining cutting-edge Western medicine with such Eastern techniques as acupuncture and chi-gong, as well as such controversial therapies as hypnosis, music, massage, reflexology, aromatherapy, and energy healing. The inspiring and affecting stories of his patients are the heart of this book--from the extraordinary discipline of Frank Torre, who used his professional sports training to "psych" himself into healing after heart transplant surgery, to the "impossible" recovery of blues great Johnny Copeland, who was roused from a seemingly impenetrable coma through the force of his own music. In recounting his patients' experiences, Dr. Oz forges a blueprint for the radical new medicine of the next millennium--drawing on the best from Eastern and Western therapies and empowering patients to become partners with doctors in promoting their own recovery.

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An unexpected side effect.......2007-02-16

I rate this book very highly with relation to what it teaches regarding cardial care.
What also struck me is a reference to what he experienced in Turkey, were Dr. Oz spent a vacation as a child or teenager. He refers to this somewhat timidly.
Can you imagine: there was no toilet paper. It was explained to him, that Turkish people, like Indonesians and other Asian people refrain from rubbing an obnoxious substance into a tender skin with paper, which Western people have been led to believe represents cleaning, but rather prefer using water and their left hand.
People that use their right hand's middle finger to signal derision, don't know what they are signaling about. Dr. Oz mentions, that the Eastern method of personal hygiene also diminishes the survival rate of hemorrhoids.
So it would seem that the book promotes health of heart as well as of another , but less admired, part of the human anatomy. A double whammy so to speak.

Not yet Synergy.......2006-11-07

Dr. Oz is, I guess, trying to be a complementary surgeon, and he does okay in his explanations of the typical complements i.e. yoga, music, but he is still a surgeon, and his belief in surgery comes through loud and clear. Just as the "YOU" books are deceptive in their attempt to woo the reader into believing this is a new approach to medicine. Alternative therapies were mainstream medicine long before Oz decided to be a revolutionary. Hard to read a book based on false premises. I much prefer the truth, even it sounds to some as being "too loving." Read Rayna Gangi, Deepak Chopra- let these guys go be surgeons.

Heart on Heart!!.......2006-11-04

Great information and easy read. I learned more in one book than the other 5 I read on the heart and the things we can do to help heal. As a yoga instructor I will recommend this to my ailling students.

The Heart Can Thrive on Positive Thoughts........2006-06-19

Dr. Oz, the heart wizard, is of Turkish descent and attempts to combine East and West traditions of healing during post-surgery. He is a heart surgeon located in New York City. First of all, he is searching for the elusive one universal healing endeavor. Some things we all need are recommended such as Love is a major healing force, as is religious faith in one God. He is of the opinion that modern medicine is not perfect. Nothing is perfect, not even beauty, he says.

Music can be healing or it can turn destructive if your favorite network plays exactly what you dislike the most, as mine is currently doing, as an irritant. Believe me, I have the emails to prove it is done on purpose just to make me hurt. But I push a button until that awful stuff is over, so it really doesn't fulfill the purpose they intend. There are devils on earth.

Pets can be a reason to live. Some are actual life savers for their owners. The purpose of healing is to bring us in harmony with ourselves. Sounds like Depock Chopra.

Our minds and emotions affect our immune systems. Depression, loneliness, and stress (brains and bodies) can cause death. Emotions are not only in our heads but affect all of our body cells. All cells are geared to know what each is supposed to do, independent of messages from the brain.

He talked about the Greek myth of Psyche and Cupid, god of Love. She needed the knife so as to be armed to deal with consequences. Who knows when an ardent lover will turn violent.

A Good Combination.......2006-02-23

The view that all types of medicine (western and eastern) working together makes sense. This book seems to encorage a balance between both. I enjoyed it.

The Making of a Surgeon in the 21st Century

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A Colorful and Interesting Account
More like, "The Whining of a Resident"
The Making of a Surgeon in the 21st Century
A natural follow up to Dr. Nolen's book
For anyone seeking to better understand the world of surgery

The Making of a Surgeon in the 21st Century
Craig A., M.D. Miller
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The Making of a Surgeon in the 21st Century is a highly personalized description of one individual's experiences during a five-year residency in general surgery at a major university hospital. It describes the personal challenges and rewards, the drama of triumph and tragedy, the agony of indecision and the thrill of success. Residency is the most profoundly life-altering sequence of events in a surgeon's life.

What does it take to make a surgeon?

It takes a college degree and a medical school education, followed by a residency. And it takes a willingness to subordinate one's personal life to acquiring the skills and knowledge which a surgeon must possess. This sacrifice takes its toll - on families, on mental health, on life-style. A surgical trainee may not get out on his own until well in his thirties - living, in the meantime, a meager existence at best.

Post-graduate training in surgery is longer than that of any other medical specialty, five years at least. Tortuous on-call schedules often demand exceedingly long work hours - 100-hour work weeks being the norm. Compounding the problem are very high stress levels, the burdens shouldered by the resident's family in his frequent absence and often an enormous educational debt.

Nevertheless, every year hundreds of fresh medical school graduates compete for the few available positions. They are consistently the very best of their classes.

Why would otherwise intelligent, highly motivated individuals actively seek such a miserable existence?

Surgeons have, of course, been glorified in the mass media as the swaggering, brilliant, fiercely independent cowboys of the medical profession. Their compensation has also been great. But beyond this is a personal quality best defined as decisiveness. They want to make the difference, in no uncertain terms. In surgery, when the patient enters the operating room he is suffering from disease. Thanks to the surgeon, he may be wheeled out cured. It doesn't happen every time, of course, but the possibility is there (in other disciplines of medicine "cure" is, unfortunately, an unusual event). Who wouldn't want to be such a healer, making a palpable, tangible difference?

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A Colorful and Interesting Account.......2006-06-24

Medical memoirs have become a popular genre. Most are quite revealing as to the virtual hell a four to five year resident must experience to become a qualified practitioner. The resident surgeon's experience has to be the most hellish in terms of the amount of hours worked, (100 hour weeks) the pressure brought to bear from the attending staff, sometimes extremely sadistic, abrasive and demeaning, not to mention the continuos mental strain from lack of sleep and the stress on the residents family, some families, unfortunately, disintegrate at some point along the way. Craig Miller's book clearly expresses all these things, however it is the spirit in which he communicates these experiences that makes his memoir worthwhile reading.

A better word would be a colourful account of his experiences as a resident. He not only explains the program in easy to comprehend prose, it is his anecdotes, describing the many characters that make-up this world that is entertaining as well as intriguing. About halfway through the text, I wondered if he had changed the names of the attending staff, nurses, and fellow surgeons that he profiles, because his characterizations are really, for the most part, quite scathing. In some cases the descriptions bordered on the libellous, smelling a legal suit some time in the future. However I'm sure his editors took this into consideration before publication. I certainly hope so.

The most revealing and educational part of the book was Miller's explanation of the standard step-by-step procedure (the Advanced Trauma Life Support protocols) when working in the ER, the initial steps of trauma management. Interestingly it is broken down simply so that the attending staff do not have to "think", but sequentially run through this procedure of "A is for Airway, B is for Breathing, C is for circulation, D is for Disability and E is for exposure." (P. 207) Miller is extremely annoyed how TV dramas as well as `reality' documentaries give the wrong impression to add to the pathos. In fact the ATLS protocols, following the A, B, C, D, E standard procedure avoids the chaos, ensuring the best for the trauma victim. This section of the text was extremely informative.

By the end of Miller's Chief Residency, he had the confidence and the confidence of his teachers to forge on alone, and realized he had truly become a surgeon. Having read the book in an afternoon, his writing was such that I felt his relief and sense of accomplishment by the end of his five-year residency. This has to be one of the most difficult and gruelling training out of all the professions, physically, intellectually and emotionally. In the Epilogue, Miller expresses his ambivalence about the current residency system in terms of its viciousness and amazing effectiveness in producing top-notch surgeons. The system hasn't changed since the 19th century. The process certainly takes its toll but for a price and is the price worth it?

A recommended read for anyone interested in the education of a surgeon.

More like, "The Whining of a Resident".......2006-05-08

William Nolen's original "The Making of a Surgeon" was a near epic inspirational recounting of one's surgical training. It celebrated the training process that molded eager, talented young doctors into, what else, surgeons. He portrayed a system that was necessarily grueling in order to insure that the products were worthy and capable of having people's very lives placed into their hands. Miller's tale, on the other hand, is more the revisionist whining of a worker who believes his boss never appreciated his talents or efforts. The entire book reads much like the faculty roast he recounts near the end: a steady spiteful payback; a re-vengeful, cathartic diatribe in which the targets are the very faculty and institution that tolerated him as a green, imperfect but promising young recruit and trained him to be a surgeon. If your preference is inspiration, stick with the original. If you enjoy wallowing in self-pity and pointing the fingers at others to explain your own shortcomings, you'll enjoy Miller's version.

The Making of a Surgeon in the 21st Century.......2006-04-23

I agree........this book was very factual and intertaining at the same time. I liked his style of writing and felt like he was right beside me, speaking about his experiences. I cheered in the end. The brutal years that he went through in his training came to a perfect end with the roast! He finally got "his day"!

A natural follow up to Dr. Nolen's book.......2005-10-16

The world of surgical training has changed tremendously over the past few years. As little as 5 years ago, the rule in surgical residency training was 110-120 hour-work weeks and even some rotations demanded 24 hour in-house coverage for several weeks at a time. This "old school" period is brilliantly narrated by William A. Nolen in "The Making of a Surgeon", but today's reality, significantly different, was captured splendidly by Dr. Miller.

Dr. Miller comes through with what feels like a natural follow-up of Dr. Nolen's work. There are interesting comparisons of several features of our current training as opposed to that of Dr. Nolen's era.

This book was very entertaining, critical and even funny. Suitable for both the non-health system related reader, as well as medical students and residents as a way of comparing our own training. Dr. Miller managed to explain technical terms in a very simple and short fashion that doesn't interrupt his rhythm even for the expert surgical readers.

I highly recommend this book particularly to medical students contemplating a surgical career. If you don't find yourself laughing at Miller's humor, then surgery might not be your most suitable future!

For anyone seeking to better understand the world of surgery.......2004-06-12

The Making Of A Surgeon In The 21st Century is the memoir of medical research award-winning career surgeon Craig A. Miller, M.D., and presents the unvarnished true story of what it is like to train as an extreme specialist. Presenting a world of gruelling 100-hour work weeks, gallows humor, harsh realities, and severe pressure at every turn with human lives literally hanging in the balance, The Making Of A Surgeon In The 21st Century is an absolute "must-read" for anyone seeking to better understand the world of surgery and the people who perform it, as well as a taste advised for those considering this demanding career path - so that they can better know the challenges they will confront.

First Responder: Your First Response in Emergency Care

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First responder

First Responder: Your First Response in Emergency Care
David Schottke , and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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The only First Responder training program endorsed by a national organization, First Responder, Fourth Edition continues with an assessment-based approach to First Responder training. The Fourth Edition fully integrates the 2005 CPR and ECC guidelines and includes new chapters on: Communications and Documentation Geriatric Emergencies Terrorism Awareness Designed to meet the needs of law enforcement personnel, fire fighters, rescue squad personnel, athletic trainers, college students, and laypersons, the new features found in the Fourth Edition will help students take the next step toward becoming outstanding First Responders. These features include: Endorsement by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons You are the Provider, attention-grabbing case studies found in every chapter Special Population Tips, discussing the specific needs and emergency care of special populations, including pediatric, geriatric, and special needs patients Enhanced skill drills First Responder Practical Skills Review DVD, packaged free with the Fourth Edition

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This one is DOA.......2002-04-18

If you are looking for a good EMT book, I would take my business over to the Brady series. Did the editor actually look at this thing? I would have to say no! Forget about it, move on.

First responder.......2000-02-12

For the most part the book is very educational & easy to follow. Although there are many misspelled words, wrong or conflicting answers. Also, many topic areas taught aren't the way it is in the "real" world. To me it didn't look like the auther did much proof reading prior to it being published. Hopefully, there'll be a better book on the market soon.

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Wow
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The Surgeon
Tess Gerritsen
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Penzler Pick, August 2001: Tess Gerritsen left a very successful career as an internist to raise her children and devote more time to writing. After several books that have had moderate success, Gerritsen has now written a gruesome and frightening story that should put her among the top women thriller writers working today.

A serial killer is on the loose in Boston. The victims are killed in a particularly nasty way: cut with a scalpel on the stomach, the intestines and uterus removed, and then the throat slashed. The killer obviously has medical knowledge and has been dubbed "the Surgeon" by the media. Detective Thomas Moore and his partner Rizzoli of the Boston Homicide Unit have discovered something that makes this case even more chilling. Years ago in Savannah a serial killer murdered in exactly the same way. He was finally stopped by his last victim, who shot him as he tried to cut her. That last victim is Dr. Catherine Cordell, who now works as a cardiac surgeon at one of Boston's prestigious hospitals. As the murders continue, it becomes obvious that the killer is drawing closer and closer to Dr. Cordell, who is becoming so frightened that she is virtually unable to function. But she is the only person who can help the police catch this copycat killer. Or is it a copycat? To complicate matters even further, Detective Moore, often referred to as Saint Thomas as he continues to mourn the loss of his wife, is getting emotionally involved with the doctor.

The suspense in The Surgeon is almost unbearable. The writing is superb and the stunning twists and turns make it almost impossible to put down. -- Otto Penzler

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In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.

He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him "The Surgeon."

The cops' only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. Two years ago, Dr. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could complete his assault. Now she hides her fears of intimacy behind a cool and elegant exterior and a well-earned reputation as a top trauma surgeon.

Cordell's careful facade is about to crack as this new killer recreates, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell's own ordeal. With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home. Her only comfort comes from Thomas Moore, the detective assigned to the case. But even Moore cannot protect Cordell from a brilliant hunter who somehow understands--and savors--the secret fears of every woman he kills.

Filled with the authentic detail that is the trademark of this doctor turned author . . . and peopled with rich and complex characters--from the ER to the squad room to the city morgue--here is a thriller of unprecedented depth and suspense. Exposing the shocking link between those who kill and cure, punish and protect, The Surgeon is Tess Gerritsen's most exciting accomplishment yet.

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Plan to stay up all night........2007-06-22

If you don't stay up until the wee hours frantically turning pages in order to see what happens next, you'll definitely lose a few hours of sleep as you listen to the creaks and groans of your house and wonder who -- or what -- is out there!

Gerritsen has always been a standout in the field of the police procedural and medical thriller, but she really makes her mark with this mystery. From Police Detective Jane Rizzoli and her partner Barry Frost, to the evil and satanic Warren Hoyt, every character nearly jumps off the page -- and had me jumping out of my skin.

Warning: This book, while not as graphic or distrubing as, say, The Shining, is not comfortable bedtime reading. Read at your own risk!

Wow.......2007-06-14

Let's be brief. This is one of the best thrillers I have ever read.

Another Winner for Gerritsen.......2007-04-21

This wasn't as good as some of the work done by Tess Gerritsen but it was still a good book. It didn't have as much suspense but it was well written and never dull. A must read.

Enjoyed the ride.......2007-03-08

I've just sworn off Karin Slaughter's books (because of her anti-Christianity agenda that is both annoying and disturbing) and am thrilled to find a new author! I began the Surgeon after dinner and finally finished it about 1:30 a.m. I absolutely couldn't put it down. The finale had some flaws (like the long Asian hair/local missing girl/wig bit of convenience), but I still loved the book. I can't wait to read another Gerritsen book!

Great story.......2007-02-19

Very gripping - I read almost the whole book on a long plane ride. It certainly made the trip much more pleasant.

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing

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The First Navajo Woman Surgeon.
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Lori Alvord , and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
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The first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing.

A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico--and to bring the values of her people to a medical care system in danger of losing its heart.

Dr. Alvord left a dusty reservation in New Mexico for Stanford University Medical School, becoming the first Navajo woman surgeon. Rising above the odds presented by her own culture and the male-dominated world of surgeons, she returned to the reservation to find a new challenge. In dramatic encounters, Dr. Alvord witnessed the power of belief to influence health, for good or for ill. She came to merge the latest breakthroughs of medical science with the ancient tribal paths to recovery and wellness, following the Navajo philosophy of a balanced and harmonious life, called Walking in Beauty. And now, in bringing these principles to the world of medicine, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear joins those few rare works, such as Healing and the Mind, whose ideas have changed medical practices-and our understanding of the world.

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The First Navajo Woman Surgeon........2007-04-09

I am full-blooded Navajo, I was taught to believe in my traditonal ways and it disappoints me that she has talked about very scared ceremonies.

Solid credentials but too abstract.......2003-12-04

--Dr Alvord writes about her journeys as a Native American student and physician. The book seems clearly designed for non-technical readers rather than the professional medical community, and there's little medical jargon. She uses her own difficult pregnancy and the death of a beloved grandmother as case studies in integrating Western medicine and Navajo ideas.
--On the one hand, it's worth reading this book just to hear such an inspirational story from such a role model. Dr Alvord tells her story with dignity and courage and she has many good ideas about listening to patients and integrating Balance and Harmony in our profession (although these ideas don't seem as radical or as rare within the medical community as she seems to imply, and I don't think she does anyone a great service by implying they are).
--On the other hand, the authors remained disappointingly abstract, even given the limitations of confidentiality and space. The stories of Navajo healing barely scratched the surface and the book was pretty scanty with practical advice that would help non-Native healers understand Native American patients. I'd love to have heard her perspectives on the magnitude of Native American health problems, how she handled the constant pressures of time and funding, or how she successfully used traditional Native American methods to help manage serious medical-social problems (i.e. alcohol use, diabetogenic diets, family pressures, basic compliance and responsibility issues, etc). In short, I'd like to have heard more about her successes.
--The book's perspective gives a good counterpoint to those who criticize Western medicine as too impersonal/sterile/uncaring/whatever, while they fail to demonstrate how to predictably improve things and still efficiently deliver technically competent health care to people with different levels of motivation and understanding. Western medicine works beautifully in its own niche, but it will be made to work less efficiently if we mess around with the wrong things. Perhaps medicine will improve if we balance the responsibilities of patients to live a healthy lifestyle with the responsibilities of healers to carefully listen to patients and then help them heal.
--This book did not practically help me to do this, so I cannot give it five stars despite my respect for her credentials. I do look forward to a sequel.
--Other books which may be of interest include Blessings (by Dr. A. Organick), The Dancing Healers, and Primary Care of Native American Patients.

READ THIS BOOK.......2003-05-10

I picked up this book and I could NOT put it down. What a wonderful journey described here....how she interlocks traditional medicine with Navajo, how harmony and positive spirit is such a process in the healing world. You will not be disappointed with this read. I have shared this with all those close to me. Make it part of your list

What We All Want in a Doctor.......2002-03-18

This book was recommended by a friend, and after I read it, I chose it as my selection for my book club. Living in the Southwest, the insight into Native American culture was especially educational. Alvord seems to confirm what so many of us as patients have been saying for years: give us a doctor who will take the time to get to know us on a personal level and treat the whole person. I would recommend this to men and women, young and old alike! What an amazing woman.

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear.......2001-04-15

This book explores the remarkable journey of a Navajo women who leaves the reservation to train as a surgeon. It contrasts traditional Navajo practices with those of western medicine and illustrates how one women was able negotiate two worlds at odds with one another. The book provoked me to re-evaluate some of my assumptions of western medicine and heightened my awareness of cultural differences in philosophy of medical care. The book is thought-provoking and inspirational. A quick and easy read.

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