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		<title>The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Checklist Manifesto lauds the concept not so much of the lowly checklist but rather of the repeatable process. (I guess &#8220;The Process Manifesto&#8221; would not sound quite so snappy.) Like Gawande&#8217;s earlier books, it argues for a more structured approach to medicine &#8212; and other fields, but as a surgeon he&#8217;s at his best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1461&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheating Death by Sanjay Gupta</title>
		<link>http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/cheating-death-by-sanjay-gupta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheating Death is written by a physician and focuses on advances in treating patients that would likely be dead. Interesting topic, and I must say I learned at least one thing: if you have to do CPR, use chest compressions rather than the standard techniques. They work better and they are easier to remember. Yeah! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1352&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder</title>
		<link>http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/strength-in-what-remains-by-tracy-kidder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Installment #3 in the Sad Book Series: Strength in What Remains tells the story of a Burundi man (Burundian?) who flees his country after brutal ethnic violence erupts and arrives in New York City with $200, no English, but plenty of smarts, persistence, half of a medical degree, and the wonderful first name of DeoGratias [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1150&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Larry&#8217;s Kidney by Daniel Asa Rose</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry&#8217;s Kidney is the barely-believable and, if true, rather shocking story of how the author helped his cousin procure a black-market kidney in China. Larry is obese, diabetic, a dialysis patient, and he has never met a vegetable he would care to eat, but in the end he does get a kidney transplant from an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1072&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Final Exam by Pauline Chen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it with physicians and their urge to write (as in here, here, here, here)?(Or perhaps what&#8217;s up with me for choosing to read so many physicians&#8217; books?)
The author of Final Exam is a thoughtful, kind woman and if I was planning to have a liver transplant (knock on wood) I would definitely go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1002&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Face to Face by Maria Siemionow</title>
		<link>http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/face-to-face-by-maria-siemionow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up Face to Face because I thought it would be interesting to hear about what it takes to do face transplants and how patients recover from such an ordeal &#8212; and I did not quite get what I had bargained for. I did read, ad nauseam, about how smart and hard working Maria [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=989&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experimental Man by David Duncan</title>
		<link>http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/experimental-man-by-david-duncan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Experimental Man, the author, a middle-aged man in good health, submits to all manners of medical tests, noth mundane and cutting-edge, to find out what modern medicine can tell him about himself and his survival prospects. And by the end of the book he finds out that he is, indeed, in good health &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=955&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I recently made fun of over-the-top Indian epics I must admit that Cutting for Stone features conjoined twins, political coups, a miraculously avoided plane crash, female circumcision, death by syphilis,  death by typhoid, and that does not even include the pregnant nun from chapter 1. But Cutting for Stone works &#8211; at least for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=760&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hippocrates&#8217; Shadow by David Newman</title>
		<link>http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/hippocrates-shadow-by-david-newman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hippocrates&#8217; Shadow claims to tell us what &#8220;doctors don&#8217;t know and don&#8217;t tell us&#8221; but it does a lot more. Using both individual patients&#8217; vignettes (that thankfully feel fresh and real) and more general analyses it makes a good case that we should cough rather than drink cough syrup, avoid antibiotics for sore throats, reconsider routine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=506&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intern by Sandeep Jauhar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intern is a dark description of medical internships by the author, who interestingly completed a Ph.D. in Physics before embarking on that career. It&#8217;s a brutal tale of stupendously long hours, enormous responsibilities put upon very green interns, errors due to poor communications and attrocious record-keeping systems, and decisions occasionally made for egotistic rather than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=43&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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