Best health & medical law books according to redditors

Restraints in nearly all cases are inhumane and unnecessary with proper precautions. A sealed room without a balcony for an unrestrained patient is perfectly safe for everyone involved. If you’re curious about this issue, there’s been an entire book written about the issue of restraints and forced treatment.

Marijuana is objectively less harmful than alcohol to the consumer and to society. See https://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Safer-Driving-People-Drink/dp/1603585109/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383084981&sr=1-1

Re: the feeding tube - not treating someone goes against what people naturally think is right, but the reality can be very different. Prolonging life for the sake of prolonging life is not seen as ethical. Prolonging life against someone's wishes is a form of assault (battery). But it's all part of being a doctor to make sure you are curing people when you can, and comforting people when you can't. People dying of dementia often lose their appetite. If they don't feel hungry, who does the feeding tube treat?

Re: the doctor looking for procedures to do - if the patient's really don't need the procedure that is not ethical. But also bear in mind that doctors have a very dark sense of humour, and I can see many of my colleagues saying things like this, but would never perform an unnecessary procedure on someone.

This is a really good book on medical ethics - in fact ethics in general. It would look really good if you were able to talk about your experiences above and then said that you'd read a textbook on it.

Not sure which state you will be in, and I didn't spend the money on the RxPrep fed law review, but I used Reiss and Hall Guide to Federal Pharmacy Law. I had it left over from my law class in my last year of didactic, not much has really changed in it and it was a really good overview with quick tips and a large quiz bank at the end of the book. It's about 1/3rd of the price.

I basically read this book one day then read my state laws (BOP FAQs, actually) the next day and did fine on my MPJE.

52% to me says "known not to work in any shape or form". A test that 100% always gives you the wrong result from a choice of two is a test that 100% always gives you the correct result just by flipping it over. 52% is, as near as makes no difference, meaningless - a coin-toss. If the result from the test is unrelated to what it's meant to test (or if you need bad science to claim otherwise) that test simply doesn't work.

And for anything that measures stress, it should be obvious that it's a bad indicator of lying.

There are many ways to cause an autonomic stress response. One is to make someone feel accused. Control questions like "what is your name?" are unlikely to make someone feel accused, but when someone knows s/he is being investigated because of being under suspicion, any question relevant to that could feel like an accusation - irrespective of guilt or innocence.

So the results of these tests will depend on personality and circumstances - e.g. has the person been repeatedly accused of things recently, or is the person already near or past his/her limits (e.g. due to unemployment).

And at least one "personality" trait makes it easy to beat a lie detector test. Sociopaths don't feel guilt, and don't get the related stress response. To make a sociopath fail a lie detector test, you basically need to do things that would make anyone fail the same test irrespective of guilt - keep them disoriented, take away any sense of control they have, make aggressive threats and accusations, etc.

It is possible to detect lying, but it's far from easy. Experienced police are no better at it than everyone else despite what they believe, and people in general believe they are good at spotting liars, but are actually dreadful. The only exceptions are specially trained. It requires paying attention to a lot of non-verbals at once - particularly "micro-gestures" which most people don't consciously spot at all. And the key thing isn't to determine if someone is stressed, but if someone is self-monitoring - taking fractionally too long to answer.

Source - various studies as described and summarized in this book. Warning - I haven't read the second edition and it's a long while since I read the first - I've tried to avoid going into detail because of the chance of getting those details wrong.

BTW - outside the first few pages, that book is pretty boring. The reason - other than the quick up-front summary of conclusions, the science - methods and results of studies - is always going to be boring.

And that's the problem. People love easy justifications for jumping to conclusions. Reality isn't anywhere near so easy or fun.

There is a guide floating around studentdoctor.net somewhere. I used an older version of it when I graduated, but I'm certain it has been renovated/updated since then. Here's the link to the full version on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Texas-Federal-Pharmacy-ebook/dp/B00BFHIEHI

(the condensed guide on studentdoctor.net is 59 pages or so. I found it from someone on this forum: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=542562)

I studied federal law from this book (http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Federal-Pharmacy-Barry-Reiss/dp/0967633265/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1296154133&sr=1-1)... (I had the previous edition). It wasn't very helpful for me, but some people mentioned that they had some benefit from it, so I studied it.

I took some prempje exams from this website: http://www.prempje.com/

• I purchased the combo package of 7 exams (at the bottom of the "All other states" link) and used them after I felt like I was ready to take the exam. It was useful to some degree to review some of the more obscure questions, and I remember seeing a couple of questions on it on the MPJE. I found it at the recommendation of someone that studied from it and found it extremely helpful, but again that wasn't my experience.
  
  The whole experience: After I felt like I had a solid grasp on the Cacciatore guide, I went through the law book once, studied the list of controlled substances, took the 7 prempje quizzes and then took the actual MPJE.
  
  Good luck

https://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Safer-Driving-People-Drink/dp/1603585109

I rarely drink anymore, knowing that it's a tool of the establishment kinda ruined it. It also makes me feel like shit.

You want a book, not an article. I enjoyed the Safer book, Marijuana is Safer then Alcohol. Covers a gambit of topics.

Edit:
Looks like I was wrong about the name. Here is a link to second expanded and updated edition: http://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Safer-Driving-People-Edition/dp/1603585109

You can park in the law school parking lot as well--if I recall, the gate is open most of the time. About checking out books, I don't see any reason why non-law students wouldn't be able to check it out, since all they do is scan your student ID anyway.

Are you just looking for a general health law book? I took a Health Law class a while back, and we used this thriller, which turned out to be a pretty good book, and has a comprehensive public health law section.

I typed in "Gisslen" because that's the author of the closest textbook I had. Amazon has much better prices. I'm actually out of school; I just wanted to see how your site worked. The I tried this book and got, "Aww Snap no results." Same result for this one and this book was much cheaper on Amazon.

Also, when I click on "buy books" and enter the ISBN, assuming it takes me to a book I want to buy, what do I do then? I tried clicking on the book, the title, the price, and none of them are links. Do people order the books through your site or are you just connecting people to the source?

Also, the white background cuts off the end of each line of text unless highlight some of the cutoff text, and then it scrolls to the left for me. Not trying to be a dick, but you asked for feedback so I hope this helps. (EDIT:The fact that the text looks funny on my screen is probably an issue with my computer. )

My alma mater just started including comparisons to outside sources for their textbooks through their campus bookstore website. It breaks down by course/section since different profs have different requirements.

There is a book that shares the view of many current and ex police officers, investigators and even police chiefs who think prohibition should be abolished.

There's virtually no sound argument against legalization, so it will be tough to find any source that comes off as "neutral". That said, I HIGHLY recommend you and your wife pick up a copy of Marijuana Is Safer, which basically outlines the argument that lead to legalization in Colorado. I read it a few months ago, and while I was already pro-legalization at the time, it changed my outlook on cannabis. It's a very interesting read and if you can get your wife to approach it with an open mind, there's no way she won't be convinced.

Link to amazon but check your local library first, that's where I found a copy.
http://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Safer-Driving-People-Edition/dp/1603585109

I can see you agree with many people that the penalties for possession are unnecessarily harsh and and more damaging than the drug itself. So right there you have common ground with a number of people in this thread.

As an American, you have the right to believe whatever you'd like -- that's one of the beautiful things about our country. However, one of the responsibilities that comes along with our democracy is being an informed citizen and continually educating oneself.

Unfortunately the scientific literature does not support your feeling except maybe for children and adolescents. I would encourage you to familiarize yourself with current research that finds it to be generally less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.

• Marijuana vs. Alcohol: Which Is Really Worse for Your Health?
  
• Obama's Right: Marijuana Is Far Safer Than Alcohol, But Not Entirely Risk-Free
  
• Study finds no lung cancer marijuana link
  
• Medical marijuana and 'the entourage effect'
  
• Cannabis and the Brain
  
• Relative Harm of Drugs
  
• Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?

I had all the same objections you do when I was a teenager, but I had to learn the actual results of the Drug War myself before I realized that it needed to be ended ASAP.

All of these objections are dealt with in the literature, and by Portugal’s experience in decriminalization. Setting aside the question of whether it’s moral to put human beings in cages for putting something into their bodies that you don’t like (“deterrence”), and the wisdom of endorsing that legal principle (drugs, then fatty foods, then sugary soda, etc), and the obvious failure of the Drug War to “deter” drug use, the legal status of black tar heroin is pretty low on the average person’s list of considerations when they are deciding whether to start injecting.

If you are interested in learning the truth about the horror show that is the Drug War, Douglas Husak’s book on the subject changed my life when I was 17. Highly recommended. https://www.amazon.com/Legalize-This-Decriminalizing-Practical-Ethics/dp/1859843204

>so 犬的 would be wrong

This is false.

A quick search online would have revealed that while uncommon, 犬的 is in fact used by Japanese people, as in this book about "Doga" = 犬的ヨガ.

In brief, while attaching 的 to some nouns may be rare or surprising, or even feel a little "off," it technically can be "flung around and attached to" any noun, and is certainly not "used with very specific words."

Please check in the future instead of just guessing.