So I’ve become quite a book hoarder since I started nursing school. Never one to pass up books, I of course buy them (usually used — thank you, Amazon), but then they gather dust on my shelf. Now, in addition to my hoarding habit, I have also discovered I have a compunction for purchasing books related to the medical field. I’ve found a few gems that I hope to read this summer; take a look if you can still stomach medical “topics” over summer break:
- The Gift of Years: Not exactly medical, but a new way of thinking for those of you who care for older folks in clinical (oh, wait, that’s all of us!).
- How Doctors Think: I’ve only read bits and pieces so far, but interesting look into diagnosis and treatment from the other side of the fence.
- Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: The world of neurosurgery — and how could you resist that title?
- Gilda’s Disease: A book co-authored by an oncology doc and Gilda Radner’s widower, Gene Wilder. A touching look at Gilda’s life and death–and the disease that killed her. Remember — Gilda’s symptoms were repeatedly dismissed by her doctors.
And the thought for the day, from none other than Joan Rivers, on the death of Natasha Richardson: “Anyone who doesn’t get up in the morning and say, ‘How lucky I am,’ is an idiot.”
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