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What If Medicine Disappeared?

University of New York, 2008

I was trying to imagine what the world would look like without Western medicine. Gone would be primary care physicians, surgeons, psychiatry—all the various medical specialties. There would be no treatment for trauma, nor fractures. Sufferers from the common cold would need to recover without their physician’s help. There would be...

Software Modeling and Design: UML, Use Cases, Patterns, and Software Architectures

Cambridge University Press, 2011

This book describes a use case–driven UML-based method for the modeling and design of software architectures, including object-oriented software architectures, client/server software architectures, service-oriented architectures, componentbased software architectures, concurrent and real-time software architectures, and software...

Radiation Dose from Adult and Pediatric Multidetector Computed Tomography (Medical Radiology / Diagnostic Imaging)

Springer, 2007

The use of computed tomography (CT) has seen enormous growth over the past decade. In the US, approximately 63 million examinations were performed in 2005 (Niagara Health Quality Coalition 2004) compared to 35 million in 2000. The increased number of clinical applications (e.g., in emergency and trauma, paediatric, cardiac, and...

Obstetrics in Family Medicine: A Practical Guide (Current Clinical Practice)

Humana Press, 2006

A few years ago, a medical student who was working with me was struck by a car while crossing the street during her lunch hour. Because she could not walk after the accident, she was taken to the emergency department for evaluation, which included an x-ray of her leg. I met her there just as the radiologist was informing her...

Mayo Clinic Cardiology: Concise Textbook (Murphy, Mayo Clinic Cardiology)

CRC Press, 2006

For busy clinicians, residents, and fellows continually challenged with a rapidly expanding body of cardiology information, this expertly conceived Third Edition of a best-selling textbook provides a contemporary succinct distillation of the current status of cardiovascular knowledge and disease. From specific diseases to particular signs,...

Ultrasound-Guided Procedures and Investigations: A Manual for the Clinician

CRC Press, 2005

In the last few years, ultrasonography has become increasingly recognized as a helpful tool for the evaluation and management of patients in the intensive care unit, emergency department, and the operating room, as well as general hospital wards and outpatient clinics. Ultrasound guidance in thoracentesis and central venous...

What They Didn't Teach You at Medical School

Springer, 2007

When I graduated I started work in a 950-plus bed then district general hospital, which subsequently became the flagship teaching hospital of the UK, that is the first private funding initiative hospital to be built.Not only was it chaotic to move an entire hospital from one building to another several miles down the road, but I...

Rudolph's Pediatrics

McGraw-Hill, 2002

The 21st edition of Rudolph's Pediatrics continues a tradition of evolving and adapting to changes in pediatric medicine. Originally published in 1897 as Diseases of Infancy and Childhood,...

Taylor's Musculoskeletal Problems and Injuries: A Handbook

Springer, 2006

After more than a quarter century as a primary care educator, I am convinced that our graduates enter practice inadequately trained in the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal problems and injuries. One reason for this perceived deficiency is the relatively short duration of primary care training—typically three...

IEEE Recommended Practice for the Design of Reliable Industrial and Commercial Power Systems

Institution Electrical Engineers, 1998

The design of reliable industrial and commercial power systems is of considerable interest to many people. Prior to 1962, a qualitative viewpoint was taken when attempting to achieve this objective. The need for a quantitative approach was first recognized in the early 1960s when a small group of pioneers led by W. H. Dickinson...

Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web: Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications (Semantic Web and Beyond)

Springer, 2011

The availability of geographic and geo-spatial information and services, especially on the openWeb, has become abundant in the last several yearswith the proliferation of online maps, geo-coding services, geospatial Web services and geospatially enabled applications. Concurrently, the need for geo-spatial reasoning has significantly...

Agile Business Rule Development: Process, Architecture, and JRules Examples

Springer, 2011

According to Wordnet, a rule is “a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior” or “a prescribed guide for conduct or action.” Businesses, and organizations in general, operate under a number of rules: rules about what services to offer and to whom; rules about how much to charge for those services;...

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