surgery shelf

[wannaberad]

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this has been discussed ad nauseam, but we all know the surgery shelf has lots and lots o medicine.

what do you read ahead of time to prepare yourself for it if you haven't had medicine?

 

[ears]

Trying to study medicine for the surgery shelf is stupid. The "medicine" on the surgery shelf is almost all peri-operative management. What you have to know about is the management of surgical patients.

Know surgical diseases; know the complications of surgical diseases; know all the options for treating them, including non-surgical ones; know the complications of the different treatments. This stuff is well-covered in Lawrence (and other places). And know trauma: ABCDE.

Good luck.