100 cases in emergency medicine and critical care (I)
“This book has been written for medical students, doctors and nurse practitioners. One of the best methods of learning is case-based learning. This book presents a hundred such ‘cases’ or ‘patients’...
View ArticleAlcohol and Aging (II)
I gave the book 3 stars on goodreads. As is usual for publications of this nature, the book includes many chapters that cover similar topics and so the coverage can get a bit repetitive if you’re...
View ArticleGastrointestinal complications of diabetes (I)
I really liked this book. It covered a lot of stuff also covered in Horowitz & Samsom’s excellent book on these topics, but it’s shorter and so probably easier for the relevant target group to...
View Article100 Cases in Orthopaedics and Rheumatology (I)
This book was decent, but it’s not as good as some of the books I’ve previously read in this series; in some of the books in the series the average length of the answer section is 2-3 pages, which is a...
View Article100 Cases in Orthopaedics and Rheumatology (II)
Below I have added some links related to the last half of the book’s coverage, as well as some more observations from the book. … Scaphoid fracture. Watson’s test. Dorsal intercalated segment...
View ArticleCircadian Rhythms (II)
Below I have added some more observations from the book, as well as some links of interest. … “Most circadian clocks make use of a sun-based mechanism as the primary synchronizing (entraining) signal...
View ArticleOncology (II)
Here’s my first post in this series. Below some more quotes and links related to the book’s coverage. … “Types of Pain 1. Nociceptive pain a. Somatic pain: Cutaneous or musculoskeletal tissue (ie,...
View ArticleA few diabetes papers of interest
i. Glycemic Control and Risk of Infections Among People With Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes in a Large Primary Care Cohort Study. From the paper: “Infections are widely considered to be a source of...
View ArticleA few diabetes papers of interest
i. The dynamic origins of type 1 diabetes. “Over a century ago, there was diabetes and only diabetes. Subsequently, diabetes came to be much more discretely defined (1) by age at onset (childhood or...
View ArticleA few diabetes papers of interest
i. Identical and Nonidentical Twins: Risk and Factors Involved in Development of Islet Autoimmunity and Type 1 Diabetes. Some observations from the paper: “Type 1 diabetes is preceded by the presence...
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