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What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works , the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely—from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings —Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel—plainspoken, funny, blunt—in the traditions of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style . It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read. |
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This is your roadmap for completing the memoir you've dreamed about writing.  "Rachael Herron resonates with our audience, and not just because she knows her stuff—she does—or because she's hilarious—she is—but because her honesty and earnestness come through in all her messaging." Samantha Sanders, Writer’s Digest Writing memoir is daunting! You’re the expert on your life, naturally, but narrating and organizing your own experiences in the best way can feel impossible. Many writers become frustrated in early drafting stages and quit after a couple of brief attempts. Learn from bestselling memoirist Rachael Herron (who teaches this class at Stanford Continuing Studies) how to fast-draft your memoir while keeping its structure compelling. Learn how to frame your life’s story and give it a natural arc to keep your reader glued to the page. Figure out how to handle those family and friends you’re writing about. Explore what truth means in memoir. Work quickly to quiet the inner critic. Most of all, learn how to get out of your own way to get the words on the page. You can do this! Rachael will show you how. |
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office—one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search. Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits. In Who Gets In and Why , journalist and higher education expert Jeffrey Selingo dispels entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions game, and reveals that teenagers and parents have much to gain by broadening their notion of what qualifies as a “good college.” Hint: it’s not all about the sticker on the car window. Selingo, who was embedded in three different admissions offices—a selective private university, a leading liberal arts college, and a flagship public campus—closely observed gatekeepers as they made their often agonizing and sometimes life-changing decisions. He also followed select students and their parents, and he traveled around the country meeting with high school counselors, marketers, behind-the-scenes consultants, and college rankers. While many have long believed that admissions is merit-based, rewarding the best students, Who Gets In and Why presents a more complicated truth, showing that “who gets in” is frequently more about the college’s agenda than the applicant. In a world where thousands of equally qualified students vie for a fixed number of spots at elite institutions, admissions officers often make split-second decisions based on a variety of factors—like diversity, money, and, ultimately, whether a student will enroll if accepted. One of the most insightful books ever about “getting in” and what higher education has become, Who Gets In and Why not only provides an usually intimate look at how admissions decisions get made, but guides prospective students on how to honestly assess their strengths and match with the schools that will best serve their interests. |
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You just heard the words no dog owner ever wants to hear ... your dog has cancer. Suddenly you are faced with making a frenzy of life and death decisions for your beloved friend, while fighting back the tears. Should I do chemo? What about holistic medicine? What about surgery? Do I change his diet? Organic or medicinal? Should I euthanize? Experts predict that half of all dogs will get some type of cancer in their lifetimes with 80 percent of dogs over the age of 10 dying from the disease. The grim statistics go on and on. But the good news is that for every dog that passes away, there are thousands of stories of survival yet to be told. "42 Rules to Fight Dog Cancer" is a compilation of real stories, told by real people about their successful battle against dog cancer. The book is rooted in the thought that through the collective knowledge of dog owners everywhere, we will be closer to eradicating this disease. Filled with concrete tips that you can start using immediately, 100% of the author's proceeds will be donated to dog-related causes. Aimee Quemuel is an avid animal advocate and founder of FightDogCancer.com, a community driven information source and social network. FightDogCancer.com not only creates a community where dog owners can share tips and advice, post pictures and simply just vent about the journey, but also leverages the power of information to raise money for dog cancer charities. |
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Bizarre military history: In 1979, a crack commando unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known laws of physics and accepted military practice, they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and—perhaps most chillingly—kill goats just by staring at them. They were the First Earth Battalion, entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries. And they really weren’t joking. What’s more, they’re back—and they’re fighting the War on Terror. An uproarious exploration of American military paranoia: With investigations ranging from the mysterious “Goat Lab,” to Uri Geller’s covert psychic work with the CIA, to the increasingly bizarre role played by a succession of U.S. presidents, this might just be the funniest, most unsettling book you will ever read—if only because it is all true and is still happening today. |
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DEWALT Construction Professional Reference Master Edition is a must-have resource for anyone working in the residential or commercial construction trades. This comprehensive job site solution provides contractors with easy access to a wealth of reference material including construction specifications, site work, concrete and masonry construction, foundations, carpentry, roofing, and drywall/plaster. Covered exclusively in the master edition are topics such as job site safety, architectural design information, rigging, electrical and plumbing installations, fasteners, finish flooring, protective and decorative coatings, metal structural products and lightweight steel construction, engineering data and much more. |
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The essential guide by one of America's leading doctors to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our health A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the doctor will see you now"-but only for fifteen minutes! Then you'll wait even longer for lab tests, the results of which you'll likely never see, unless they indicate further (and more invasive) tests, most of which will probably prove unnecessary (much like physicals themselves). And your bill will be astronomical. In The Patient Will See You Now , Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, shows why medicine does not have to be that way. Instead, you could use your smartphone to get rapid test results from one drop of blood, monitor your vital signs both day and night, and use an artificially intelligent algorithm to receive a diagnosis without having to see a doctor, all at a small fraction of the cost imposed by our modern healthcare system. The change is powered by what Topol calls medicine's "Gutenberg moment." Much as the printing press took learning out of the hands of a priestly class, the mobile internet is doing the same for medicine, giving us unprecedented control over our healthcare. With smartphones in hand, we are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic system in which "doctor knows best." Medicine has been digitized, Topol argues; now it will be democratized. Computers will replace physicians for many diagnostic tasks, citizen science will give rise to citizen medicine, and enormous data sets will give us new means to attack conditions that have long been incurable. Massive, open, online medicine, where diagnostics are done by Facebook-like comparisons of medical profiles, will enable real-time, real-world research on massive populations. There's no doubt the path forward will be complicated: the medical establishment will resist these changes, and digitized medicine inevitably raises serious issues surrounding privacy. Nevertheless, the result-better, cheaper, and more human health care-will be worth it. Provocative and engrossing, The Patient Will See You Now is essential reading for anyone who thinks they deserve better health care. That is, for all of us. |
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Let’s face it, a lot of technical documentation reads as if it had been translated into English from Venutian by a native speaker of gibberish. Which is annoying for you and expensive for the manufacturer who pays with alienated customers and soaring technical support costs. That’s why good technical writers are in such big demand worldwide. Now, Technical Writing For Dummies arms you with the skills you need to cash in on that demand. Whether you’re contemplating a career as a technical writer, or you just got tapped for a technical writing project, this friendly guide is your ticket to getting your tech writing skills up to snuff. It shows you step-by-step how to: Research and organize information for your documents Plan your project in a technical brief Fine-tune and polish your writing Work collaboratively with your reviewers Create great user manuals, awesome abstracts, and more Write first-rate electronic documentation Write computer- and Web-based training courses Discover how to write energized technical documents that have the impact you want on your readers. Wordsmith Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts covers all the bases, including: All about the red-hot market for technical writing and how to get work as a technical writer The ABCs of creating a strong technical document, including preparing a production schedule, brainstorming, outlining, drafting, editing, rewriting, testing, presentation, and more Types of technical documents, including user manuals, abstracts, spec sheets, evaluation forms and questionnaires, executive summaries, and presentations Writing for the Internet—covers doing research online, creating multimedia documents, developing computer-based training and Web-based training, and writing online help Combining examples, practical advice, and priceless insider tips on how to write whiz-bang technical documents, Technical Writing For Dummies is an indispensable resource for newcomers to technical writing and pros looking for new ideas to advance their careers. |
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From our special line of Study Briefs Essentials, the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) Essentials is a quick reference resource or convenient refresher to assist in employing this standard documentation and formatting style used in business, publishing, academia and research organizations to name a few. This short guide is intended for anyone needing a quick, reliable overview of the essentials needed to properly format a manuscript or create a Chicago style in-text or bibliographic citation. Compiled by our experts to focus on the most frequently used items, its intent is to give the reader a general review of fundamental facts with useful examples included for reference in a consistently organized and easy to follow compact booklet. Inside you will find a review of general rules and guiding principles. There are up-to-date links that direct you to helpful online resources. A selected set of commonly used bibliographic citations can serve as model entries when you need to create one of your own. CMOS guidelines for composing and formatting documents and full bibliographic entries including annotations are covered. Individual sections address proper use of in-text citations, footnotes, endnotes, direct quotes and paraphrases in CMOS style. Checklists highlighting guidelines for spelling, grammar, usage, punctuation and capitalization rules serve as useful reminders for editing and proofreading tasks. A formatted manuscript example and a special section on proofreader’s marks are also included. |
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The purpose of the book entitled "Supreme Mathematic, African Ma'at Magic" is to show that Mathematics is of African origin; To show relationships between African and Modern mathematical objects, terms, and concepts; To show how African Mathematical methods can be used to solve certain problems not easily solved by modern mathematical methods; and To Show the Importance that Ancient Africans placed on Mathematics to solve problems, establish Truth and Order (Ma'at), and Apply knowledge to create Systems and Technologies needed for survival and well-being. This book is an introductory educational tool for a long term goal and mission of growing, cultivating, nurturing, and promoting African Creativity, and Ingenuity to develop, engineer, innovate, invent, and create any structures, devices, or systems needed. The importance of Mathematics is emphasized in this book to provide Motivation, inspiration, and Insight into the relationship between Ancient African and Modern Mathematics. |
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Philosophy for Beginners: Introduction to philosophy - history and meaning, basic philosophical directions and methods On the meaning of life and man Are you interested in philosophy? Do you know the great philosophical thinkers and philosophies they represent? Do you know what the basic philosophical directions are? Learn more about great philosophical thinkers and their basic ideas "Philosophy experienced its origins at the time of ancient Greece with its well-known representatives Plato and Socrates, to name just two examples. One can translate philosophy as the striving for knowledge about the meaning of life, the essence of the world and the position of man in the world. It describes the teaching and science of the knowledge of the meaning of life, of the world and of man's position in the world. Beyond that, however, it has a further meaning, namely the personal side of each human being and the way in which each one regards life and the world for himself as things. This corresponds to the saying 'live and let live'" You will learn in this helpful guide... ... wherein philosophy is based ... how philosophy and science are connected to each other ... the evolution of philosophy ... where the concept of philosophy derived and which importance it gets ... which philosophical fundamental directions there are ... which methods apply in philosophy ... and much more! Seize the opportunity today and get a philosophical reflection knowledge of your life |
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À l'heure où l'information est malmenée plus que jamais, où des opinions plus ou moins fantaisistes s'affrontent dans des débats contradictoires qui achèvent d'égarer le public, un regard scientifique ne peut que nous éclairer. C'est pourquoi le Pr Raoult a regroupé dans cet ouvrage un certain nombre de ses rubriques. Son objectif : donner aux lecteurs des informations dûment contrôlées sur la santé en général, l'état de la médecine et de la recherche, et faire le point sur les grandes peurs entretenues concernant aussi bien les épidémies que les drames écologiques ou sociétaux. Vous trouverez dans cet ouvrage des mises au point édifiantes sur : - les craintes propagées à tort sur certaines bactéries prétendument résistantes ou sur divers virus, et en revanche les vrais problèmes négligés (retour du paludisme, recrudescence du sida, obésité, etc.) ; - l'état de la recherche, les grands espoirs (cancer par exemple), les nombreux remèdes à notre portée ; - les faux cadeaux de la grande distribution qui mettent en péril notre alimentation ; - les réformes urgentes que réclame l'hôpital public ; - une mise en garde sur la hantise du terrorisme ; - les dangers d'un racisme-réaction et les attitudes à éviter pour réussir un " vivre ensemble " inévitable. Sans compter une défiance persistante à l'égard des homosexuels et une lutte insidieuse contre les femmes appelées à prendre le pouvoir ! Un livre lucide mais mesuré, qui au final propage un optimisme raisonnable et apaise le stress ambiant, la peur étant assurément la plus grande maladie du siècle. |
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You've just boarded a plane. You've loaded your phone with your favorite podcasts, but before you can pop in your earbuds, disaster strikes: The guy in the next seat starts telling you all about something crazy that happened to him--in great detail. This is the unwelcome storyteller, trying to convince a reluctant audience to care about his story. We all hate that guy, right? But when you tell a story (any kind of story: a novel, a memoir, a screenplay, a stage play, a comic, or even a cover letter), you become the unwelcome storyteller. So how can you write a story that audiences will embrace? The answer is simple: Remember what it feels like to be that jaded audience. Tell the story that would win you over, even if you didn't want to hear it. The Secrets of Story provides comprehensive, audience-focused strategies for becoming a master storyteller. Armed with the Ultimate Story Checklist, you can improve every aspect of your fiction writing with incisive questions like these:      •  Concept: Is the one-sentence description of your story uniquely appealing?    •  Character: Can your audience identify with your hero?    •  Structure and Plot: Is your story ruled by human nature?    •  Scene Work: Does each scene advance the plot and reveal character through emotional reactions?    •  Dialogue: Is your characters' dialogue infused with distinct personality traits and speech patterns based on their lives and backgrounds?    •  Tone: Are you subtly setting, resetting, and upsetting expectations?    •  Theme: Are you using multiple ironies throughout the story to create meaning? To succeed in the world of fiction and film, you have to work on every aspect of your craft and satisfy your audience. Do both--and so much more--with The Secrets of Story . |
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Une partie de l'ADN humain est constituée de vestiges de gènes transmis par des virus. Le monde du vivant est une immense orgie collective, et l'homme, une chimère génétique. Les microbes sont partout : sur nos mains, dans nos veines... et jusque dans nos gènes. Cette découverte renverse les certitudes érigées par le darwinisme. Virus et bactéries sont nos très nombreux (et parfois encombrants) locataires, entre lesquels les interactions (et les luttes fratricides) sont constantes. Les êtres vivants échangent des gènes par la reproduction, mais aussi en les combinant avec ceux des virus et des bactéries. Aujourd'hui, on sait qu'une partie de l'ADN humain est constituée de vestiges de gènes transmis par des virus. Le monde du vivant est une immense orgie collective, et l'homme, une chimère génétique. Ces micro-organismes sont aussi nos voisins, copropriétaires de la planète : quand nous modifions nos écosystèmes, nous ouvrons la porte à de nouveaux virus et bactéries, pas toujours amicaux. Nos modes de vie – la mondialisation en tête – peuvent déclencher des guerres de voisinage meurtrières, dont le nom nous fait frémir : les épidémies. Cette peur, héritée des ravages de la peste au Moyen-Âge, puis réveillée ces dernières années par le SRAS, Ebola, H1N1 et le Covid-19, n'a rien d'un fantasme. Le monde microscopique, mouvant et imprévisible, nous réserve bien des surprises ! C'est cet univers de l'invisible, qui nous entoure et vit en nous, que le professeur Didier Raoult nous propose de découvrir. |
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Guaranteed Top Scores on Your Firefighter's Exam! Want to be a firefighter? Do you know what is involved in taking the exam? Don't take a chance at failing a test you could ace--learn from the expert, Norman Hall . For more than a decade, Norman Hall's Firefighter Exam Preparation Book has been the #1 test preparation book for prospective firefighters. Back by popular demand, Norman Hall has completely updated and revised this hugely successful book for this second edition, presenting new tips and time-tested methods for attaining the highest scores. Practice your skills using features such as tips on how to pass the physical requirements, practice exams with answer keys, memory aids to help you master the recall test, tables for self-scoring, insights on what a career in firefighting entails, and a discussion of the final interview. Use Norman Hall's Firefighter Exam Preparation Book, 2nd Edition to study hard and score at the top! |
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" The Forest for the Trees  should become a permanent part of any writer's or editor's personal library. " - The Seattle Times Quickly established as an essential and enduring companion for aspiring writers when it was first published, Betsy Lerner's sharp, funny, and insightful guide has been meticulously updated and revised to address the dramatic changes that have reshaped the publishing industry in the decade since. From blank page to first glowing (or gutting) review, Betsy Lerner is a knowing and sympathetic coach who helps writers discover how they can be more productive in the creative process and how they can better their odds of not only getting published, but getting published well. This is an essential trove of advice for writers and an indispensable user's manual to both the inner life of the writer and the increasingly anxious place where art and commerce meet: the boardrooms and cubicles of the publishing house. |
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Le Code civil du Québec est le principal texte législatif qui régit le droit privé au Québec. Il regroupe un ensemble de règles qui constitue la structure du droit privé. Le code civil se décrit lui-même de la manière suivante dans sa disposition préliminaire : « Le Code civil du Québec régit, en harmonie avec la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne et les principes généraux du droit, les personnes, les rapports entre les personnes, ainsi que les biens. Le code est constitué d'un ensemble de règles qui, en toutes matières auxquelles se rapportent la lettre, l'esprit ou l'objet de ses dispositions, établit, en termes exprès ou de façon implicite, le droit commun. En ces matières, il constitue le fondement des autres lois qui peuvent elles-mêmes ajouter au code ou y déroger. » |
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Design doesn't have to complicated, which is why this guide to human-centered design shows that usability is just as important as aesthetics. Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious -- even liberating -- book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands on memorization. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The goal: guide the user effortlessly to the right action on the right control at the right time. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how -- and why -- some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them. |
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The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies —a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” ( Elle ). "Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself." –Ken Burns “Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History , in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost ” ( The New York Times ). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. “Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” ( The Washington Post ). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome. “A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” ( Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “ The Gene is a book we all should read” ( USA TODAY ). |
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This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers’ brains and captivate them through each plot element. Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story, and what keeps readers transfixed. Wired for Story reveals these cognitive secrets—and it’s a game-changer for anyone who has ever set pen to paper. The vast majority of writing advice focuses on “writing well” as if it were the same as telling a great story. This is exactly where many aspiring writers fail—they strive for beautiful metaphors, authentic dialogue, and interesting characters, losing sight of the one thing that every engaging story must do: ignite the brain’s hardwired desire to learn what happens next. When writers tap into the evolutionary purpose of story and electrify our curiosity, it triggers a delicious dopamine rush that tells us to pay attention. Without it, even the most perfect prose won’t hold anyone’s interest. Backed by recent breakthroughs in neuroscience as well as examples from novels, screenplays, and short stories, Wired for Story offers a revolutionary look at story as the brain experiences it. Each chapter zeroes in on an aspect of the brain, its corresponding revelation about story, and the way to apply it to your storytelling right now. |
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Written in the 1850s when its author was a young doctor, Gray's Anatomy was the most comprehensive and accessible medical textbook of its time. This compact volume comprises an abridged version of the classic 1860 edition - the last to be published during Gray's lifetime - and the masterly wood-block illustrations that ensured the runaway success of the original book. A national and international treasure, Gray's Anatomy is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the history of medicine or in the amazingly complex machine that is the human body. |
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Superbrain Yoga reveals an ancient Indian technique that maximizes the brain's function. Simple exercise for increasing brain power and harnessing the body's primordial energies to help improve memory and concentration, increase focus, and achieve mental clarity are outlined in an easy-to-follow manner to help you on your way to a better brain. These exercises are beneficial for both adults and children, and are especially recommended for those diagnosed with autism and ADD/ADHD. |
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Exam Prep: Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations, Fifth Edition is designed to thoroughly prepare you for a Hazardous Materials certification, promotion, or training examination by including the same type of multiple-choice questions that you are likely to encounter on the actual exam. By completing the practice questions in this manual, you will be able to identify weak areas you may have, allowing you to adjust accordingly. The manual follows the Systematic Approach to Examination Preparation, developed by Dr. Ben. A. Hirst, to help improve examination scores. The practice examinations were written by fire and emergency services personnel and the content was validated through current reference materials and technical review committees. Your exam performance will improve after using this system. |
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The compelling, groundbreaking guide to creative writing that reveals how the brain responds to storytelling Stories shape who we are. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions and mold our beliefs. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human. So, how do master storytellers compel us? In The Science of Storytelling , award-winning writer and acclaimed teacher of creative writing Will Storr applies dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to our myths and archetypes to show how we can write better stories, revealing, among other things, how storytellers—and also our brains—create worlds by being attuned to moments of unexpected change. Will Storr’s superbly chosen examples range from Harry Potter to Jane Austen to Alice Walker, Greek drama to Russian novels to Native American folk tales, King Lear to Breaking Bad to children’s stories. With sections such as “The Dramatic Question,” “Creating a World,” and “Plot, Endings, and Meaning,” as well as a practical, step-by-step appendix dedicated to “The Sacred Flaw Approach,” The Science of Storytelling reveals just what makes stories work, placing it alongside such creative writing classics as John Yorke’s Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey into Story and Lajos Egri’s The Art of Dramatic Writing . Enlightening and empowering, The Science of Storytelling is destined to become an invaluable resource for writers of all stripes, whether novelist, screenwriter, playwright, or writer of creative or traditional nonfiction. |
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This book offers an integrated symptom- and issue-based approach to internal medicine. Fully updated and revised, the Fourth Edition provides clinicians and trainees with a high-yield, evidence-based, and concise resource for everyday use, bedside teaching, and examination preparation. It presents over 250 internal medicine topics classified under 17 subspecialties. For each topic, differential diagnoses, investigations, and treatments are outlined. Comparison tables aimed at highlighting the distinguishing features between various clinical entities are featured and numerous clinical pearls and mnemonics enhance understanding of the topics. The book covers many highly important topics in medicine; for example, smoking cessation, obesity, transfusion reactions, needle stick injuries, code status discussion, interpretation of gram stain, and palliative care.  Approach to Internal Medicine , Fourth Edition, continues to serve as an essential reference for every medical student, resident, fellow, practicing physician, nurse, and physician assistant. |
