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JAMA. 2007;297(1):94-98. doi:10.1001/jama.297.1.98.
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Biography, MemoirPatients Are a Virtue: Clinical Tales in the Art of Medicine

by Brian T. Maurer, 223 pp, paper, $14.34, download $5, http://www.lulu.com/content/362517, 2006 (57 vignettes by a pediatric physician assistant, some previously published).
CardiologyShort Stay Management of Heart Failure
by W. Frank Peacock (Society of Chest Pain Centers), includes CD-ROM, 214 pp, with illus, paper, $44.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-6645-6, ISBN-10 0-7817-6645-1, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
GeneticsImplications of Genomics for Public Health: Workshop Summary
edited by Lyla M. Hernandez (Committee on Genomics and the Public's Health in the 21st Century, Institute of Medicine), 87 pp, paper, $18, ISBN-13 978-0-309-09607-2, ISBN-10 0-309-09607-3, Washington, DC, National Academies Press, 2005 (full text available at http://www.nap.edu).
GeriatricsThe Role of the Outdoors in Residential Environments for Aging
edited by Susan Rodiek and Benyamin Schwartz, 266 pp, with illus, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-3243-0, ISBN-10 0-7890-3243-0, paper, $24.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-3244-7, ISBN-10 0-7890-3244-9, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Press, 2005.
Health SystemsTrends in EU Health Care Systems
by Win de Gooijer, 504 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN-13 978-0-387-32747-1, ISBN-10 0-387-32747-9, New York, NY, Springer, 2007.
The Truth About Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America
by David Mechanic, 228 pp, $26.95, ISBN-13 978-0-8135-3887-7, ISBN-10 0-8135-3887-7, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2006.
HistoryLaughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories Behind the Drugs We Use
by Jie Jack Li, 310 pp, with illus, $29.95, ISBN-13 978-0-19-530099-4, ISBN-10 0-19-530099-8, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2006.
HIVTeenagers, HIV, and AIDS: Insights From Youths Living With the Virus
edited by Maureen E. Lyon and Lawrence J. D’Angelo (Sex, Love, and Psychology), 275 pp, $49.95, ISBN-13 978-0-275-98892-0, ISBN-10 0-275-98892-9, Westport, Conn, Praeger, 2006.
ImagingRadiology Made Easy
by Arpan K. Banerjee, 2nd ed, 178 pp, with illus, paper, $50, ISBN-13 978-0-521-67635-9, ISBN-10 0-521-67635-5, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
NeurologyStroke: Selected Topics
by Julien Bogousslavsky, Louis R. Caplan, and Helen M. Dewey, et al (World Federation of Neurology, Seminars in Clinical Neurology, vol 4), 65 pp, with illus, paper, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-1-933864-01-3, ISBN-10 1-933864-01-X, New York, NY, Demos, 2007.
Nuclear MedicineThe Pathophysiologic Basis of Nuclear Medicine
by Abdelhamid Elgazzar, 2nd ed, 566 pp, with illus, $259, ISBN-13 978-3-540-23992-5, ISBN-10 3-540-23992-8, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
PsychiatryInterpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Older Adults
by Gregory A. Hinrichsen and Kathleen F. Clougherty, 227 pp, $59.95, members $49.95, ISBN-13 978-1-59147-361-9, ISBN-10 1-59147-361-6, Washington, DC, American Psychological Association, 2006.
What Is Mental Retardation? Ideas for an Evolving Disability in the 21st Century
edited by Harvey N. Switzky and Stephen Greenspan, revised and updated edition (AAMR Books and Research Monographs), 358 pp, with illus, $59.95, ISBN-13 978-0-940898-93-6, ISBN-10 0-940898-93-4, paper, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-0-940898-94-2, $59.95, ISBN-10 0-940898-93-4, Washington, DC, American Association on Mental Retardation, 2006.
SurgeryFundamentals of Surgical Practice
edited by Andrew Kingsnorth and Aljafri Majid, 2nd ed, 545 pp, with illus, paper, $95, ISBN-13 978-0-521-67706-6, ISBN-10 0-521-67706-8, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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