A hard-hitting chronicle of one week in the life of Dr. Alex Licata graphically describes the life-and-death dramas he must deal with daily and the deep personal crises he must soon resolve

The children's ward

Weiner, Howard L.

GP Putnam

A gawky sixteen-year old girl thrashes about in obscene gestures, shrieking in a strange language. In another context, she would be called possessed; to her father, an important physician, she is epileptic; but to Alex Licata chief neurology resident, she is a fake. If Licata can prove her seizures hysterical, he will be a hero. If not, he may be out of a job This is not four-year old BJ Balsiger's first hospital admission, nor is it the first time the physicians have failed to trace the source of his convulsions. Alex Licata's medical student, Casey Lilstrom, has made a list of every possible condition the boy could have, but all have tested negative. Yet somewhere on her list is the solution to the mystery of BJ Balsiger, and Casey has accepted Alex's challenge to find it, no matter what it takes The Children's Ward chronicles a crucial week in the life of Alex Licata. With his patients' fate almost out of control, Alex must decide between the lucrative world of private practice and the underpaid self-satisfactions of academic medicine; between his wife and family and his attraction to Casey; between his obsession with medicine and his needs as a man.

Childrens Ward

Literature & Fiction

Literary

BERKLEY

What causes multiple sclerosis? When will there be a cure? Dr. Howard Weiner has spent nearly three decades trying to find answers to the mysteries of multiple sclerosis, an utterly confounding and debilitating disease that afflicts almost half a million Americans. Curing MS is his moving, personal account of the long-term scientific quest to pinpoint the origins of the disease and to find a breakthrough treatment for its victims. Dr. Weiner has been at the cutting edge of MS research and drug development, and he describes in clear and illuminating detail the science behind the symptoms and how new drugs may hold the key to "taming the monster." From the "Twenty-one Points" of MS--a concise breakdown of the knowns and unknowns of the disease--to stories from the frontlines of laboratories and hospitals, Curing MS offers a message of hope about new treatments and makes a powerful argument that a cure can--and will--be found.

Curing MS: How Science Is Solving the Mysteries of Multiple Sclerosis

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Crown

Case Studies in Neurology for the House Officer

Medical Books

Levitt, Lawrence P.

Hauser, Stephen L.

Medicine

Williams Wilkins

Neurology for the House Officer

Pediatric neurology for the house officer

Very good clean copy with content sound and unmarked.

Pediatric Neurology for the House Officer (Pediatric House Officer Series)

Urion, David K., M.D.

Williams & Wilkins Co.

...one of the House Officer series that provides basic clinical information on commonly encountered conditions in a quickly accessible format.

Neurology

Rae-Grant, Alexander D., M.D.

Thoroughly updated for its Seventh Edition, this best-selling volume of the House Officer Series is a succinct, symptom-oriented pocket guide to the diagnosis, treatment, and management of common neurologic disorders. Each chapter opens with a clinical case study and proceeds to classification of symptoms, history, physical examination, laboratory tests, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, treatment, and management. The book includes a chapter on differential diagnoses of less common conditions and an appendix of drug tables. This edition features major revisions of chapters on localization, muscle weakness, central nervous system infections, AIDS, pain treatment, increased intracranial pressure, and traumatic brain injury.

Neurology (House Officer Series)

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

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