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Authors: John Bailitz  MD,  Faran Bokhari MD, Thomas A. Scaletta MD, and Jeffrey Schaider MD. Publisher:  McGraw-Hill – 588 pages Book Review by:  Sonu Chandiram When an accident victim arrives in an ambulance and is being wheeled in to the emergency room, time is of the essence for the doctor to save the patient’s life. While emergency physicians are taught in class to take the right actions, the hands-on experience they acquire in the emergency ward is itself a part of their overall training. The more they do, the more they learn and become that much more competent. But sometimes, in order to decide on the correct course of action to take, the doctor may need to quickly refer to a handbook such as this one – Emergent Management of Trauma. This is a compact, easy-to-carry book that is lightweight and slim enough to slip into a lab coat and carry around. It is a concise guide covering a large range of injuries  that  helps the emergency physician evaluate the patient and determine what type of injury was inflicted on him. Written by four doctors who work in Chicago hospitals, this life-saving book quite  literally is comprehensive enough to provide quick answers to almost any question or problem the emergency physician faces when the injured patient is right before him and he must take immediate action. At least, until...

Author: Joel Fuhrman, MD Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (Hachette Book Group) – 380 pages Book Review by:  Laxmi Chaandi This popular book by Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a national bestseller, now No.54 on Amazon’s Top 100 list as of this writing on Feb 14, 2012. It was first published in 2003 and has gone through over 20 printings in English and several other languages. This latest version was released in June 2011. To date, the author has written seven books on nutrition, including Disease-Proof Your Child. He is board-certified in family medicine and does research on what causes weight gain, as well as preventing or reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods. Dr. Fuhrman has appeared on radio and television shows including on Good Morning America on ABC, Today on NBC, the Discovery Channel on PBS, the TV Food Network, the Dr. Oz Show and other shows on national and international TV networks including ABC, CBS, CNBS, CNN, FOX and NBC. His own PBS television show 3 Steps to Incredible Health began airing nationally in the U.S. in June 2011. The popular TV personality Dr. Mehmet writes in the Forward to this book that unhealthy eating along with lack of exercise are the most serious lifestyle problems in the United States. He points out that in a recent United States survey of 9,500 people, 36 percent were found...

Editors: Adam Brooks, Bryan A. Cotton, Nigel Tai and Peter F. Mahoney Associate Editor: David J. Humes Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell – 219 pages Book Review by:  Nano Khilnani This book covers emergencies relating to the abdomen and veins and soft tissue infection; urologic problems and trauma pertaining to the abdomen, chest and veins; and critical-care issues and post-operative complications. The book has four editors, an associate editor and 40 contributors who are specialists in various areas of medicine practicing in the United Kingdom and the United States. The book has 30 chapters on various types of emergency surgery organized into groups and covered in seven parts. Part 1 entitled Approach discusses preoperative considerations, the initial approach to the emergency surgery patient, emergency anesthesia and analgesia. Part 2 named Abdomen is the largest one of the seven parts, having chapters 5 through 17. It covers problems and complications such as appendicitis (inflamed appendix), diverticulosis (inflamed diverticulum, part of the gastrointestinal or GI tract), bilary colic (pain in the bile ducts), acute cholecystitis (painful inflammation of the gall bladder), perforated peptic ulcer (breaks in membranes of the stomach wall or other organs such as he duodenum; and fulminant colitis or sudden and severe inflammation of the colon. It also covers problems such as mesenteric ischemia (deficient blood supply to the mesentery, a part of the GI), bleeding and hemorrhage of the upper...

Author: Dan Gookin Publisher: Wiley Publishing – 348 pages Book Review by Nano Khilnani The well-known author of this book Droid 3 for Dummies Dan Gookin has written more than a whopping 120 books on computers, software, and electronic gadgets and gizmos over the last two decades, starting with his classic Dos for Dummies in 1991 when computers were just beginning to be used on a mass scale. Well organized and illustrated with numerous photos of the many parts and useful features of the Droid 3 handheld device, this large book of almost 350 pages covers everything you need to know about it. To start with, this guide has four helpful icons used throughout the book: Remember, Technical Stuff, Tips, and Warning. The Remember icon is a friendly reminder to do something; the Technical Stuff points out to technical discussions on the topic if you’d like to know about, but it is optional; the Tips icon points you out to helpful tips and shortcuts to save effort and time; and the Warning icon alerts you to not do something. There are six basic parts in this book. After browsing through the Contents at a Glance, you can search through the detailed Table of Contents to read about the topics you’re looking for. Before the start of Part 1, Dan puts you, in his Introduction, in the right frame of...

Author: Suzanne Bates Publisher: McGraw Hill, 230 pages Book Review by Nano Khilnani Steve Jobs has been cited by Suzanne Bates in this book as a prime example of a CEO who not only became a “brand” identified with Apple, but virtually an icon, first in the world of computers, then with mobile communications devices. Jobs’ immense creativity led to products that changed people’s ways of live forever, and in the process made Apple attain such high market value that even he had probably not imagined possible. Suzanne Bates, who coaches executives to become instrumental in making their companies stand out among competitors, is truly a pioneer in coming up with the idea that the chief executive office of a company has to be more than its administrative head or simply the leader of all its employees. He or she has to become brand, not for self-glorification, but for the benefit of the company shareholders, employees, vendors and customers. The process of branding a CEO starts with a self-examination of strengths and weaknesses, Bates says in so many words throughout the book. The CEO, along with the help of management and employees, must look at all the ways possible for the company to become a respected leader in its industry. Besides Jobs, she points out to two people in the inside cover flap as outstanding examples of corporate leadership....