The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Medical Specialty by Brian Freeman Best book of it's kind! I read this book when I started medical school and then reviewed it throughout school. The book is written by a physician who had recently been in residency training in anesthesia and it seems like he found doctors he knew from medical school and residency to write each chapter about each different ...read more...
Across the Red Line: Stories from the Surgical Life by Richard C. Karl Across the Red Line: Stories from the Surgical Life Books written by medical doctors tend to be narrow in scope, often autobiographical and are mostly interesting only to people in the medical profession. Although the general public has a curiosity about the profession and its practitioners very few such works fulfill their promise. Dr Karl has succe...read more...
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Intern: A Doctor's Initiation by Sandeep Jauhar Great Doctor, Boring Book Intern is long, tedious, and tiresome. The story is extremely repetitive, and talks about the same thing over and over again. How many times does one want to read "checked his blood pressure"?
There have been great and funny books about medicine. Oliver Sachs, Jonathan Miller, and John ...read more...
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Apple MacBook Air MB003LL/A 13.3 Inch Laptop (1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive) Great computer but faulty hinge I loved my MBA when I recieved it as a gift in July 2008. I was so pleased with it - great graphics, the "cool" factor, perfect for all I needed it for (as a writer and photographer, the storage was excellent and the application were perfect).
However, after having it for only six month...read more...