Best surgery books according to redditors

For example, the complete package of Netter's medical ilustration usually cost 999$ but they have it on "offer" for 949.


This book about fractures cost 610$ dollars, for example.


And those are amazon's prices, you don't even wanna know about the markup those books get in my home country.

She was hounded by the government.

I encourage everyone to read Johann Hari's book Chasing the Scream about the history of the drug war from the 1920s to the present.

He has an extended piece about Holiday and her place as a scapegoat for Harry Anslinger, head of the Bureau of Narcotics.

Here's an excerpt from the book about Holiday. If you have any interest in the drug war or history thereof, I highly recommend it.

You are wrong. After the prohibition ended, the mafia did greatly diminish and murders and violent crimes from them almost dissipated entirely overnight.

Of course it will take time for the gangs to greatly diminish, but it will happen.

I recommend reading Chasing the Scream for more in-debth research on this subject.

Aproveitando seu ponto, vale lembrar daquela cena que todo mundo que vive numa média/grande cidade já viu, que é o do mendigo com uma corotinha do lado, desmaiado no chão e queimando no Sol.

O cara sabe que beber álcool daquele jeito (e daquela qualidade) faz mal. Inclusive, muito provavelmente ele chegou naquela situação graças à sua doença, deixou pra trás a família, amigos e profissão.

Quando a gente dá dinheiro pra essa pessoa não tem como não imaginar que ele não vai gastar com outra corote e virar ela como se fosse água pra um perdido no deserto. O cara é viciado. O corpo dele reage negativamente quando não tem aquela substância, sente dores pelo corpo, vomita, tem dores de cabeça, e a única maneira de fazer parar é com outra dose. Eu ponho minha mão no fogo se alguém aqui não iria se sentir abalado caso se encontrasse nessa situação. Pois é, o cara sofre isso tudo e ainda mora na rua e o melhor amigo dele é um cachorro. A dose de álcool dele é, ao mesmo tempo, o analgésico que faz as dores pararem e a cicuta que ele deve torcer pra matar dele um dia.

A questão da higienização que nós vemos periodicamente é nada mais do que desumanização de pessoas em estado crítico, doentes, e que não tiveram a mesma sorte de se manterem "funcionais". Crack não é droga de pobre. O prefeito de Nova York foi flagrado algum tempo atrás usando ela, oras.

A questão é ter mais empatia pelo próximo, uma criatura da mesma espécie que você, e menos medo do que ele possa fazer pra conseguir a substância que o corpo dele arde pra obter. Eles roubam não é pra ter a droga? Então dê a droga logo e acompanhe a saúde desse pessoal, já que a vida dele é igual a sua!

É clichê dizer, mas essa história é de saúde pública. Esse pessoal está doente física e psicologicamente, além de ter zero expectativa de mudanças. Só não vê quem literalmente não quer.

Edit de recomendação de leitura: Chasing the Scream. Como aqui é o reddit eu não vou me preocupar tanto com o fato de só existir em inglês, mas tem pra baixar facilmente por aí. Recomendo muito.

Every part of our system is for-profit industry. The FDA works with Legal Drug Makers; the DEA stops illegal drugs.

There is a union of companies that support the drug war; just as there are other companies and entities that support the war on drugs.

If you like good books; http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-First-Last-Drugs/dp/1620408910 is pretty good.

Don't forget https://www.viceland.com/en_us/show/weediquette-tv

And you should check out the companion book, Crucial Interventions, as well: https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Interventions-Illustrated-Principles-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0500518106/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511836333&sr=8-1&keywords=Crucial+interventions

It's full of horrifyingly beautiful 19th century surgical illustrations.

Buy DiVirgilio (https://www.amazon.com/Surgery-Case-Based-Clinical-Review/dp/1493917250) & a subscription to UWorld for STEP2CK. Honored surgery and I never wanted to be a surgeon.

Read Philip K. Dick's "Second Variety" free on Amazon. Good Sci-Fi read on this sort of stuff.

This is the only solution. The only way to end the drug war is to end the drug war. For anyone who can’t comprehend this please take some time to really consider the other side of the argument. I suggest starting here with the most eye opening book you’ll ever read on the subject.

For questions 1 and 2, read this book:

About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
by Amazon.com
Learn more: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0671695347/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_kta1DbXWYZZFK

Hackworth goes into extreme detail on the problems with how the Vietnam war was lead including McNamara's obsession with body counts as an indicator of victory.

For question 4, read this book:

Chasing the Scream: The Opposite of Addiction is Connection
by Amazon.com
Learn more: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1620408910/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_-Fa1DbKVVVJEX

Hari goes into detail on why sodiers in Vietnam did drugs and why the majority of them were able to stop once the war was over. There is little connection between Afghanistan and the current opioid crisis at least as far as soldiers working in a region with opium is concerned.

As far as the question about communication equipment vs yelling, there are several good reasons for yelling as opposed to using coms. First, yelling ALWAYS works. Unless you get shot in your airway, you can almost always yell commands. Coms can breakdown or get lost, broadcasts can be jammed. Coms are expensive, yelling is free. Yelling is also localized. Troops 100 meters away do not hear it effectively but close troops can. Coms broadcast to everyone on the frequency regardless of range. Coms also do not distinguish who is speaking unless call signs are used. If every troop had coms, they couldn't all start talking. They would have to wait their turn. In a firefight, waiting may mean death or worse. Special operators do use sophisticated coms as they approach a target, but still fall back on yelling while in a localized fire fight.

Curious enough, it is 10 - 30% more common in patients with hematologic disorders. It is just splenic tissue (or
another spleen, to make things easier) found most commonly in these locations:

• Splenic hilum (40-60%) and lower pole;
  
• Tail of the pancreas;
  
• Suspensory ligaments;
  
• Greater omentum;
  
• Rare: presacral region, adjacent to left ovary, and in scrotum next to left testicle.
  
  (Source: Pocket Surgery, 2nd ed)
  
  The clinical vignette present in my card is a patient with known history ITP, following-up 6m after splenectomy, still presents with ITP signs and normal peripheral blood smear (when you would expect the post-splenectomy smear findings, like Howell-Jolly bodies, target cells etc.).
  
  Per UpToDate:
  
  >Patients with ongoing severe ITP after splenectomy and standard pharmacologic therapies are considered to have chronic refractory ITP. Occasionally, an accessory spleen causes late recurrence of ITP following splenectomy, especially if the initial splenectomy resulted in remission for at least one year [46]. In such cases, the possibility of an accessory spleen should be investigated with abdominal ultrasound or computed tomography. In one series, 10 percent of adult patients with chronic refractory ITP were found to have an accessory spleen [46]. This possibility is further suggested if Howell-Jolly bodies (picture 1) are absent on the peripheral smear following splenectomy.
  
  ​
  
  You can also check my card for more info, it is quite comprehensive I think (also there's a good image from Pocket Surgery attached). :)

Like almost 10% of PAs who responded to the AAPA yearly review, I'm in orthopedics.

I used Handbook of fractures during my first year. I literally carried it everywhere I went
I am using Surgical Exposures in Orthopedics to learn my anatomy beyond Netters
I use Orthobullets every day and am working my way through their residency 365 day core curriculum study plan
I used Pocket Orthopedics when I first started, but now I realize its a bit outdated
I used This Instrumentation Book when I first started to learn all the instruments
I used this Scrub Tech book when I first started
I used Essentials of General Surgery for basic floor management stuff

Hope that helps

/u/BedsideRounds, I was just going to suggest the same thing, as I have the book and enjoy thumbing through it. I also have Crucial Interventions, which is along the same style.

Which podcast do you host? If you are uncomfortable telling us in public, can you PM me? Never mind I just read it in your starter comment.

It's a random recommendation but I quite liked "Chasing the scream" by Johann Hari

https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-Opposite-Addiction-Connection/dp/1620408910


How literate is he? For beginner maybe this book, looks cool. It's called Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Cheers-Anarchism-Autonomy-Meaningful-ebook/dp/B0091XBYWK/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=anarchism&qid=1568494157&s=books&sr=1-3


More serious book is like this one (has more history and such) https://www.amazon.com/Anarchism-Theory-Practice-Daniel-Gu%C3%A9rin/dp/0853451753/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=anarchism&qid=1568494157&s=books&sr=1-8

I found Pocket Surgery to be helpful as a resource for patient management when I was on my Sub-I's. Surgical Recall is excellent for pimping questions.




This is obvious, but for completeness:

1. Know the patient.
   
2. Make sure you know your anatomy (regular and irregular) for each case.
   
3. Know the potential complications of the procedure being performed and how to manage them.
   
4. At a place like UC, you should see a lot of referrals and potential re-do cases (depending on the service). If the patient was operated on before, make sure you read the previous operative note so you know what they did.
   
5. Practice knot tying. I borrowed a needle driver and suture from the OR to help with practicing various sutures for skin closing at home. I bought a practice suture kit on Amazon (there are many available at various price ranges) to work on.

> devirgilio for surgery shelf

This? https://www.amazon.com/Surgery-Case-Based-Clinical-Review-ebook/dp/B00S3FBMRY

Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate are my suggestions.

At the risk of repeating myself ad nauseam in this thread allow me to suggest "Chasing the Scream" by Johann Hari. It is pretty much regarded as the source regarding this topic.

If I may add my own recommendations to the list as well:

• Stone Butch Blues is an incredible, slightly heartbreaking, informative, interesting story about growing up trans starting in the (I think) 50s, and deals with gender identity, LGBTQ issues, feminism across the ages, etc. I cannot recommend it highly enough! Another summary is here.
  
  
• Chasing the Scream is a very well-researched look into the 'War on Drugs' and into drug policy, and it's written in a very engaging way. It's incredibly informative and I think everyone should read it, regardless of their personal stance on drugs. (The author has had some credibility issues before, but I believe he did this book after and thus everything is well-backed up).
  
  
• If you like sci-fi, Seveneves is amazing, hard (as in science-y, less so fantasy in space) sci-fi about saving mankind. The key characters are women, and it has some unique ideas.
  
  
• The Laundry Files are fun, easy to read modern fantasy (UK Civil Service meets spy film meets Cthulu?).
  
  
• Finally, Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss are both great fantasy writers. :)

It would be a start, but if we really want to reduce deaths and crime, we should be supplying addicts with safe opioids.

I was somewhat impresses that the NS report didn't contain a bunch of 'more enforcement' items though. I guess that's setting the bar pretty low, but there's been a lot of talk in different levels of government on attempting to reduce the supply of opioids, which will just increase costs (and therefore related crime), and increase potency (no one smuggled beer during prohibition).

If anyone would like an interesting read on the topic, I recommend:

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

You should read the book "Chasing the Scream". It's makes a very very good argument against prohibition. You won't look at the drug problem the same again.

https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-First-Last-Drugs/dp/1620408910

I got ya bb.
https://www.amazon.com/Brunner-Suddarths-Textbook-Medical-Surgical-Nursing/dp/1451130600/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1491438594&sr=8-3&keywords=med+surg+nursing

The new Stephen King book, a book full of antique surgical illustations, a book about creepy asylum treatments back in the early 20th century, and some money toward a new laptop. :)

$0.00 on Amazon Kindle

Greenberg is the go to.

afterwards you should also get this one
and this one for the OR


as far as expectations, expect to not know a lot in the beginning. It's easier to learn things as you see them rather than trying to study everything at once. ICP management has some basic but also some specifics depending on the etiology. Look at every scan on every patient you have and compare to the previous when able, repetition makes you better as it will with most things. Don't shoot from the hip, if you don't know look it up and ask for clarification questions.

I'm not a CC guy, we have neurointensivists for that so I'm of no help there.

Here's a book I found. Good luck!

DO NOT DO THIS without doing a lot of research first. It should be a last resort. Turbinate reductions are a lot more dangerous than ENTs admit, and they rarely look into the underlying cause of your problems before doing them (such as allergies.) Before you even consider them, join the Empty Nose Syndrome Facebook group managed by Dr. Houser and ask them some detailed questions about the exact procedure your ENT is contemplating and the reasons why. It has a few hundred people that were told their procedure was perfectly safe (or not even told that it was going to be done) and many are so miserable they're suicidal. Some of them know far more about these procedures than the average ENTs from spending years reading every scrap of research that comes out hoping to find a cure or at least understanding their condition.

I myself had the most conservative and safe type of turbinate reduction done last year, and my ENT told me he'd be even more conservative than usual, and I wish more than anything I could undo it. I've been in horrendous discomfort since, which has only in the last few months improved to "moderately bearable." To this day the dryness and general "off" and painful breathing feeling is extremely distracting and depressing. And there's nothing they can do.

The thing about the turbinates is once you touch them, you can't fix them. So if you end up getting ENS, which your doctor (as mine did) will tell you is impossible to get without a total resection, you're pretty much stuck with it for life, and it's considered a major suicide risk, that's how much fun it is. As a young guy, it's life changing.

I would do a ton of research first, including reading this book, and try all sorts of other remedies such as daily saline rinses using the squeeze bottle and packets.

As a last resort I'd do a septalplasty only without turbinate reduction, and only then would I do a turbinate reduction, and ONLY from an ENT that recognizes the risk of ENS and is more likely to be careful about preserving tissue.

Hey y'all! I'm working with an otorhinolaryngologist who's become a facial plastic surgeon here in Mexico City. We've been getting into the practice of facial feminization surgery for transgender patients and this surgeon I work with has been working really hard to improve considerably. I was his first FFS patient (Type 3 forehead feminization, rhinoplasty and thyroid cartillage reduction) and volunteered as a beta tester for the frontoplasty. The results were adequate, although we noticed many things that could be improved about the forehead work.

This feedback was applied into some cadaver testing and it helped a lot with another two patients he had to do a frontoplasty on (One to remove an osteoma in the frontal sinus and another one for type 3 forehead reconstruction last Thursday. This last one went pretty well and I reckon he's learned a lot since mine). So much so that another world renowed FFS surgeon he's friends with praised my doc's work on the forehead through Instagram.

Now, we've been looking at a course this organization called Facial Team offers in Marbella Spain. The doc was part of the first webinar they ever organized in 2018 for trans facial surgery, and they personally invited the doc to the FFS training course in Spain, but we didn't have the resource for that at the time.

We are looking into enrolling to this course, but the problem is how much they're charging: Around $26,000 USD for ONE WEEK (Link to download last year's course HERE). We are located in Mexico and, the doc has always trained in public universities (Which here are completely free of charge) and been able to get scholarships (Full or partial) for high level specializations. We do question whether it's worth investing into this or not.

So, in your opinion, is it worth taking this course for him? We feel like it's just too much money for what they're teaching, and the doc's been learning plenty with books like the one released by Dr. Somenek and plenty of scientific research papers on the matter. Nevermind that he constantly updates his knowledge.

Yes, I'm listening to the Audible version. I don't know if there are others.

Oh, and I did listen to the TED talk by Johann Hari and it was awesome. I totally agree with his approach. I'm thinking of picking up his book on Amazon, but I'm not sure if it will be useful beyond what he presented in the talk:

https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-First-Last-Drugs-ebook/dp/B00OZM4ANM

A printed version just for you: Chasing the Scream.

"Most dangerous" might or might not have been a slight exaggeration on my part, but not much. As for how things change when a substance is legalized, Chasing the Scream will tell you all about how and why use of heroin and other drugs has plummeted since becoming legal in Portugal.

I haven't read this book but it's a nice hardcover with beautiful historical illustrations and is not very expensive. I doubt it's comprehensive / definitive but you'll love flipping through it and it'll look great on your bookshelf:

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Interventions-Illustrated-Principles-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0500518106?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

Another area I've become interested in (in my own field of expertise, not surgery) is actually buying historical texts. Find a specialty used book store in your city and browse through their medical/scientific books. Even a standard (med school-level) text from 70 years ago is fascinating when understood in the context of what has come since. And the <100 year-old books are not expensive (<$100).

abebooks.com is full of cheap old used (and expensive old used) textbooks from many countries and areas of medicine.

When I am thinking about a disease that I encounter in my practice frequently (ex. Hodgkin disease), sometimes it's fun to dip into one of my old textbooks and read something like "Hodgkin's disease is a disease of the hematopoietic organs [...] It is invariably fatal. Whether it is neoplastic or inflammatory in nature remains a matter of dispute." (Boyd, 1947).

These old textbooks are very readable. That edition of Boyd's pathology belonged to my grandfather. Every single page of it is fascinating.

Yeah, Chasing the Scream sounds like it could be at least an interesting read on the subject.

https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-First-Last-Drugs-ebook/dp/B00OZM4ANM

Surgical Recall

I found this incredibly helpful during my rotation.

https://www.amazon.com/Surgical-Recall-Lorne-Blackbourne-FACS/dp/1451176414

For medical history, the Morbid Anatomy Anthology has several books that helped fill the void The Knick left. They have Kindle editions but they're useless because they scanned the pages of the hardcover books so the text is tiny and unreadable. Worth getting the hardcovers; the illustrations are gorgeous. I really liked:

Crucial Interventions
The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic

Un bel po' di anni fa quando ero giovane ed ingenuo avevo comprato [questo libro] (https://www.amazon.it/dp/887507920X/ref=asc_df_887507920X45645037/?tag=googshopit-21&creative=23390&creativeASIN=887507920X&linkCode=df0&hvdev=m&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=) credendo che funzionasse. Mi sono reso conto presto fortunatamente della totale inefficacia del metodo ed effettivamente sarebbe bastato vedere che l'autore non è laureato in medicina e tantomeno specializzato in oculistica.

I recommend the book Chasing the Scream for anyone interesting in learning more about this subject, how the war on drugs started, how different countries have dealt with the problem, and stories of individuals who have been deeply affected by the war on all different sides.

You might try DeVirgilio (available on Amazon). It's a case-based review, well-written, written with MS3s in mind, and has ~200 questions at the end.

The diagrams alone were enough to make me wince! I recently ordered Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery and am very much looking forward to reading all about how horrific medical procedures were through the 1800s.

Thanks for sharing another great article.

Read Chasing the Scream http://amzn.to/2hzr4nk and Acid Dreams http://amzn.to/2hkDSlm to get a full picture of why we are where we are now.

What others are saying is right. It's a political move to criminalize minorities and rebellious youth cultures.

are you talking about this one?

https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Anesthesiology-2008-Mark-Ezekiel/dp/1934323004

Seems like amazon has a few in stock.

legalize those too.

Not sure how to notify like everyone in this whole comment thread, but if anyone is at all interested by the questions here please read this:

Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari

If you haven’t read Chasing the Scream, it is fascinating and touches on this topic.

Edit to clean up the link

Highly recommend reading "Chasing the Scream" for the history of the war on drugs in the US. It offers a few case studies for solutions at the end - pointing to a state by state legalization or a complete legalization like Portugal. Hari is an unbeatable writer, too.

It's on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Brunner-Suddarths-Textbook-Medical-Surgical-Nursing/dp/1451130600

Here's a question: are you actually in the US?

I work for a surgeon in Zurich (currently redoing the English-language website) that was developing CXL back in the day (Farhad Hafezi), and continues to research what's going on at the molecular level in keratoconic corneas, and how to improve CXL (his research group showed the importance of oxygen availability in the reaction, and why that limits how fast CXL can be performed, for example) https://www.elza-institute.com/corneal-cross-linking-cxl/ - he also co-wrote the textbook! https://www.amazon.com/Corneal-Cross-Linking-Farhad-Hafezi-MD/dp/1630912107

I have thin corneas, so I'm absolutely delighted I work for the ELZA Institute and can have them monitored regularly and easily. :)

If you are in the US, on the West Coast, the other author of the textbook is J. Bradley Randleman (https://eye.keckmedicine.org/doctors/j-bradley-randleman/) and he's wonderful at it too.

Practically, though, there are many good cornea specialists out there (and everyone's right - you need a cornea specialist) whatever country you are in. What's most important is getting treated. IMHO, you need to have a surgeon that's offering epi-off CXL. Epi-on is getting better, but it's not there yet. You want CXL to stop your KC progressing; why risk it? And Epi-on risks that far more than epi-off.


One thing my boss can do that is above and beyond regular CXL in keratoconus is also perform a custom Trans-PRK laser ablation - you'd be very unlikely to be 20/20 afterwards like most laser refractive procedures, but you would have an easier time of it with sclerals etc. Hafezi did a lot of the development with one of the laser manufacturers, Schwind, to get their excimer algorithms right in post-CXL corneas, so if anyone knows how to do that best, it's him.

Is this the one you guys refer to?

http://www.amazon.com/Surgery-Case-Based-Clinical-Review/dp/1493917250

Also important to note that a lot of drug use is caused by mental illness.

I've recently been reading the book Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari, it's a very good look into how the War on Drugs and our demonization of addicts has only caused more pain and suffering than open drug policies would have caused.

Seems like this thread is very full of right-wingers who believe mentally ill people should just be locked up but I commend you for the enormous task you're undertaking. I wish you the best of luck dude

For Surgery:
Surgical Recall saved my life

Netters pocket guide was great for in between case refreshers!

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