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Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
Sandeep Jauhar tells the story of his residency at New York Hospital in the late 1990s.
The Medscape Journal of Medicine, July 2008
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Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
Charles Barber's Comfortably Numb joins the increasingly long list of books that question the widespread use of the SSRIs.
The Medscape Journal of Medicine, May 2008
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General Gynecology: The Requisites in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Drs. Andrew and Eric Sokol have created an important gynecology reference, which is presented in a user-friendly, well-written format.
Medscape General Medicine, December 2007
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Avoiding Opioid Abuse While Managing Pain
Lynn Webster and Beth Dove's new book looks at the struggle to balance the potential for opioid abuse against the need for compassionate analgesia.
Medscape General Medicine, October 2007
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The Lonely Patient
Dr. Michael Stein's new book demonstrates just how challenging the practice of empathy can be.
Medscape General Medicine, June 2007
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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Doctors need to find ways to do a better job of dealing with dying patients, according to a new book.
Medscape General Medicine, May 2007
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Romancing Opiates -- Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy
According to Theodore Dalrymple's book, the current system of treating addiction not only has been ineffective but also has made the problem worse.
Medscape General Medicine, April 2007
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Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First
Dr. Marsden Wagner's book offers strong criticism of a number of shortfalls in the current maternity care system.
Medscape General Medicine, March 2007
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Physical, An American Checkup
James McManus has much to offer the medical field in its unabashed portrait of how patients tend to view the medical profession and the tools they wield.
Medscape General Medicine™, August 2006
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A Disease Apart: Leprosy in the Modern World
Tony Gould's book looks at a disease that discriminates in its pathophysiologic, political, and social effects.
Medscape General Medicine™, March 2006
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Prescription for a Healthy Nation
Two public health researchers suggest that we refocus the debate about healthcare delivery.
Medscape General Medicine™, November 2005
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States
Stephen Barrett, MD, levels criticism at the Institute of Medicine's publication on CAM.
Medscape General Medicine™, October 2005
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A Review of Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition, With Online Updates
There are few allergists who do not have at least one edition of Allergy: Principles and Practice, which is rightly considered the authoritative text in the specialty of allergy and immunology.
Medscape General Medicine™, October 2005
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American Mania: When More Is Not Enough
Peter Whybrow's, MD, book approaches the American national obsession with materialism and overconsumption from the perspectives of economics, philosophy, psychology, and neurobiology.
Medscape General Medicine™, September 2005
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Book Review -- War Epidemics: An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850-2000
A massive new book examines the impact of modern war on diseases.
Medscape General Medicine™, March 2005
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When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America Since 1900 and the Fears They Have Unleashed
Howard Markel, MD, examines events that demonstrate a pattern of discriminatory governmental responses to epidemic threats.
Medscape General Medicine™, October 2004
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Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, Building for Healthy Communities
Americans are not as healthy as they could be, according to a new book about the spread of the suburbs.
Medscape General Medicine™, September 2004
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Epidemic of Care
Managed care executives look at solutions to the expense crisis in the American healthcare system.
Medscape General Medicine™, May 2004
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
A new novel looks at court intrigue and the allopathic squabblings that led up to the decision to use variolation in Boston in 1721.
Medscape General Medicine™, May 2004
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Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin and the Transformation of Illness
A new book examines the patients treated by diabetologist Elliot Joslin before, during, and after the discovery of insulin.
Medscape General Medicine™, October 2003
