Medical Books, Journals, CDs, and Videos

Major General Surgery References

1. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice Courtney M. Townsend editor
2. Principles of Surgery Seymour I. Schwartz (Editor), G. Tom Shires (Editor), John M. Daly (Editor)
3. Selected Readings in General Surgery, University of Texas Dallas a 5 ½ year series of articles and overviews, offering up to 110 CME credits per year
4. Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations by Robert M., Jr. Zollinger, Robert M., Sr. Zollinger, Marita Bitans (Illustrator), Jennifer Smith (Illustrator), Carol Donner (Illustrator), Paul Fairchild (Illustrator), William Ollila (Illustrator)
5. General Surgical Operations by R. M. Kirk, extremely popular British text
6. Maingot's Abdominal Operations
7. Practical reviews in general surgery audiocassette or multi-media versions

Accessory Texts

1. Hamilton Bailey's Emergency Surgery
2. Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen by William Silen
3. Plastic Surgery for General Surgeon B. M. Daver, D. W. Furnas, Noshir H. Antia, Bombay (Mumbai), India and Irvine, California, USA

Online and subscription comprehensive medical references

1. Teton Data's Stat!-Ref purchase CDs or use online, includes Current Medical, Current Surgical, Current Emergency, Current Pediatrics, Current OB-GYN, Smith's General Urology, William's Obstetrics, Medical Immunology, Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, Review of General Psychiatry
2. Online MD Consult and lower cost MD Consult India paid online service including major textbooks and journals, US Physicians may access mdconsult free at Merck Medicus

Purchase Books

1. Amazon.com new and used books, editors' reviews, customer reviews, cross-links to similar books; Amazon.com Listmania surgeon's book list; Listmania surgeon in training book list
2. AbeBooks used book consortium
3. EBay auction surgery books books
4. UK fleshandbones surgery books and medical books
5. UK MediaMall medical books with a particularly long list of surgical books

Mostly Free Online Textbooks

1. UK Mainprize tutorials, case studies, surgical links, quizzes
2. Emedicine
3. Snow Tiger board level articles including general surgery, critical care, trauma surgery, gastroenterology
4. GIST of Emergency Medicine management of patient encounters, Michael Webb, MD, Nova Scotia, Canada
   
5. University of Iowa Virtual Hospital
6. Library National Medical Society
7. MedicalStudent.com
8. Medical Student's website asks for password, just press cancel and you may access this site
9. Free online textbooks list by Dr. Sheraz Ahmed
10. New York Emergency Room RN online surgery books
11. Free Books 4 Doctors
12. Haiti Medical book list
13. studentbookworld
14. Stanford medical student online book list with book descriptions
15. Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine University of South Alabama College of Medicine
16. AllHealthnet.com
17. Doctor's Reference Site a few free sites, many paid sites
18. Atlas Kidney Diseases Adobe Acrobat and PowerPoint versions, Robert W. Schrier, Professor and Chairman Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado

 

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19. Elsevier International free trial online chapters medical books long Adobe Acrobat files which download slowly
    
    
    
    1. Total Burn Care pediatric
    2. Color Atlas of Burn Care the burn wound
    3. New Imaging Techniques Oncologic Imaging, 2nd edition
    4. Brain tumors clinical, imaging and laboratory diagnosis
    5. Diseases of Sinuses endoscopic sinus surgery
    6. Atlas Human Anatomy Thorax
    7. Medical Physiology respiratory
    8. Pulmonary Differential Diagnosis A B Cs of Radiologic Evaluation
    9. Imaging of Diseases of the Chest high resolution chest CT
    10. Respiratory Medicine, Illustrated Color Text lung cancer
    11. Heart Disease vascular biology atherosclerosis
    12. Manual Percutaneous Central Venous Catheterization femoral vein
    13. Clinical Surgery breast disease
    14. Textbook of Mammography normal breast
    15. Advanced Therapy Breast Disease sentinel lymph node dissection Giuliano et al
    16. Walter and Miller's Radiotherapy breast cancer multi-disciplinary treatment
    
     
    
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    17. General Surgical Anatomy and Examination Esophageal and gastric cancer
    18. General Surgical Operations esophageal cancer
    19. Surgery Liver and Biliary Tract natural history of gallstones and asymptomatic gallstones
    20. Hepatobiliary Cancer hepatic resection Blumgart et al
    21. Surgery portal hypertension
    22. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease dyspepsia
    23. Practice Therapeutic Endoscopy gastrostomy and enterostomy
    24. Pediatric Gastrointestinal Radiologic Intervention Pediatric Gastrointestinal Imaging and Intervention 2nd edition
    25. Principles and Practice of Surgery acute abdomen and intestinal obstruction
    26. Shackelford's Surgery of the Alimentary Tract acute mesenteric ischemia
    
     
    
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    27. Essential Surgery appendicitis
    28. Cancer Lower Gastrointestinal Tract colorectal cancer prevention and early detection
    29. Gershenson Operative Gynecology ovarian cancer
    30. Clinical Gynecologic Oncology gross and microscopic gyn tumors
    31. Atlas Endoscopic Techniques Gynecology hysterectomy
    32. Human Physiology renal
    33. Comprehensive Urology upper urinary tract obstruction
    34. Campbell's Urology laparoscopic kidney surgery
    35. Management of Urologic Malignancies bladder cancer presentation, diagnosis and staging
    36. Atlas Genitourinary Oncology radical prostatectomy
    37. Clinical Immunology Principles and Practice kidney transplantation
    38. Practical Fracture Treatment pelvis, hip and femoral neck
    39. Mosby's Color Atlas and Text of Infectious Disease bone and joint infection
    
     
    
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Journals

1. British Journal of Surgery free table of contents and abstracts, paid articles
2. The Interactive Lancet full text articles for subscribers, table of contents and limited full text articles free to non-subscribers
3. New England Journal of Medicine free access to articles for subscribers, but non-subscribers can e-mail letters to the editor and read free pre-publication releases
4. Yale University Medical Letter Drugs and Therapeutics concise, understandable, relevant drug information, 2 optional 13 credit CME tests per year
5. Free medical journals
6. Joe Buenker's Land of Medical Links including his medical journal list; which includes every medical journal with a web page; find the journals starting with the letter a here, click on the menu at the top of the page to go to journals starting with the letters b-z

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