Even though I am not in the medical field, I could not put this book down! I loved all the little stories of various medical conundrums and how the doctors figured out each one like a puzzle.
Interesting read through various infectious disease cases. Not sure what the target audience was - as a Dr it was interesting but didn't contain new information (though that might be because close friends were overly interested in parasites and infectious diseases); if I'd read it without a medical ...
Oh man, now this looks like a "real" horror anthology!
Enjoyable, Gonzalez-Crussi has an excellent style, very approachable. This should have received 5 stars, but the book was in such desperate need of an editor that I actually found it distracting. Multiple issues on every page, including one point where the same passage was repeated a page later, d...
Excellent starter book for the ignorant, which is me. A Short History of Medicine lays out the basics of medicine nice and concisely from early history to today. The summary explanations are plain and simple, making it easy for the uninitiated to grasp. Key historical figures are illuminated just en...
I had thought this would be a book on how the eye works, but it turned out be much more about what it is the eye is drawn to. This included an array of the usual subjects, like sexual imagery, death and physical mayhem. This was interesting enough, but I felt at times that the author was rather reve...
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