Medicine
epub |eng | 2005-01-28 | Author:Michael J. Collins

Chapter Twenty-One January We were slouched in chairs in a second-floor classroom of the Medical Sciences Building listening to one of the research fellows drone on about biomechanics. Behind me ...
( Category: General Surgery January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Barry Petersen

TIMELINE Spring, 2008 Barry's update to family and friends There are changes I know are coming and I dread; and one has now arrived. Jan is losing her long-term memory. ...
( Category: Memoirs January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Bill Granger

17 BRUGES Rita Macklin had red hair and green eyes, and she had loved him for a long time. Perhaps she still loved him, but he wouldn’t think about that. ...
( Category: Sports Medicine January 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-03-16 | Author:Isaac Asimov

Measures on Hyper Base had been taken in a sort of rattling fury—the muscular equivalent of an hysterical shriek. To itemize them in order of both chronology and desperation, they ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Bostrom, Nick [Bostrom, Nick]

The first-order effect of such a capability would seem to be to consolidate power, and possibly to concentrate it in fewer hands. Unification by treaty There may be large potential ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics January 25,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-02-23 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan & Hodel, Brian [Wallace, B. Alan]

SETS OF FIVE If the essential nature of each sentient being and the universe as a whole is infinite, luminous space, endowed with all the qualities of perfect enlightenment, why ...
( Category: Neurology January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan [Wallace, B. Alan]

THE SHAMATHA–VIPASHYANA SEQUENCE Buddhaghosa’s compilation of the ancient commentaries on the Connected Discourses of the Buddha includes a simile describing the practice of vipashyana without the support of shamatha as ...
( Category: Neurology January 22,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-01-19 | Author:Foreman, Judy

SURGERY—DON’T LEAP! Okay, then. What about surgery? There’s no question that back surgery is still more popular than it should be, in part because patients in chronic pain are so ...
( Category: Pathology January 20,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Canter, David [Canter, David]

Disrupting criminal careers One approach of crime prevention is to work directly with offenders and diminish the likelihood of them committing further crimes, or at least reduce the prevalence of ...
( Category: Pathology January 17,2015 )
azw |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Miller, Robert H. & Bissell M.D., Dan [Miller, Robert H.]

A STUDY TECHNIQUE TOOLBOX Here’s a quick list of tools the mentors used to build their knowledge base in medical school. You may want to consider adopting them as well. ...
( Category: Education & Training January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:David Chalmers

Toward a Nonreductive Theory Even if consciousness cannot be reductively explained, there can still be a theory of consciousness. We simply need to move to a nonreductive theory instead. We ...
( Category: Neurology January 17,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Oliver Sacks

AUDITORY EXPERIENTIAL RESPONSES TO STIMULATION. 1. A voice (14); Case 28. 2. Voices (14). 3. 1 voice (15). 4. A familiar voice (17). 5. A familiar voice (21). 6. A ...
( Category: Neurology January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-08 | Author:Ian Stuart-Hamilton [Stuart-Hamilton, Ian]

K Kangaroo court Self-appointed group of people who decide if a person is guilty of something. The phrase is usually used as a condemnatory phrase of groups of workers who ...
( Category: Communicative Disorders January 14,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-26 | Author:Lawrence Hill [Hill, Lawrence]

FOUR FROM HUMANS TO COCKROACHES: BLOOD IN THE VEINS OF POWER AND SPECTACLE WHEN I WAS A PRESCHOOL CHILD, I found it hard to imagine that strangers travelling in cars ...
( Category: Hematology January 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Frendl, Gyorgy & Urman, Richard D. [Frendl, Gyorgy & Urman, Richard D.]

Relative Contraindications • Severe AI: diastolic balloon inflation → ↑ AI → LV distension → ↓ CPP, ↑ myocardial O2 consumption • Sepsis • Severe vascular disease (e.g., AAA or ...
( Category: Critical Care January 12,2015 )