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Editors: Kevin J. Knoop, Lawrence B. Stack, Alan B. Storrow & R.Jason Thurman, MDs Publisher:  McGraw-Hill Medical – 876 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a large book of almost 900 pages with broad coverage of trauma cases that emergency physicians face on a daily basis. It can be an abscess, allergy attack, blood clot in veins, broken bone, diabetic collapse, dislocation of the shoulder, fracture of the skull, inflammation in an internal organ, inhalation of a noxious gas, injury, hemorrhage, loss of vision, occlusion, rupture of the spleen, swallowing of a foreign object, or anything else that is life-threatening. This is the third (2010) edition of the book, which also functions as a reference manual. It has chapters on airway, electrocardiography and toxicology added to it, along with some images of tropical diseases. It has less text and more than twice the number of images contained in the second edition published in 2002. This book was first published in 1997. The four editors named above gathered and edited the materials from more than 50 medical specialists who are named as contributors in this book. In addition, there were more than 160 of photographs submitted that were used in this massive project. Compiling such a large mass of useful materials has made this book of an immense value to emergency room doctors and other members of the...

Author:  Dr. Mike Moreno Publisher:  Free Press, an Imprint of Simon and Schuster -242 pages Book Review by:  Laxmi Chaandi To get a range of comments – positive, negative, in-between – on this book, one would have to go on the Internet, and readers can do that after reading this review. As part of this book, we find a lot of positive remarks on its back cover by people who are or were on the author’s 17-day diet. A sampling below of some questions I had in mind as I started to read it, and comments relevant to those questions is given below. The comments really help as part of this review because the effectiveness of this weight-loss plan in this type of book is the real review, not the way the book is written. Has this diet plan helped people lose weight? Do they feel hungry or lack energy by being on it? Here is a comment on that: “I am so excited. After 17 days on this plan, I’ve lost 12 pounds! I am so enthusiastic today as I was on the day I started! I don’t feel hungry and my energy is at an all-time high! I have made the commitment to do this myself, and I feel that I will be very successful.” Another comment on weight loss: “I am loving this weight loss plan....