Text for a New Attending

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I'm going to be graduating this year. My department gives texts to chief's as gifts; I've been asked if I have any preferences. I am taking a job as an acute care (non-trauma) surgeon in a busy university practice. I already own Greenfield and ACS and have access to Mastery on line. I was thinking about asking for Mastery, or maybe Cameron. Any attendings have a preferred general surgery text, or one they remembered fondly from their "oh crap, I'm the attending and need to know how to take care of this?" days?
 
Do you have an atlas? That comes in handy.

If you are willing to think outside the box, you might think about asking for some of the ACS CD-ROMs - perhaps Practice Management. Would they pay for you to go the ACS Coding course instead of a text? That comes in very handy, even in a university practice.

How about SESAP 13?
 
An atlas, preferably with at least some chapters by those who trained you (to decrease confusion in your own mind) is a good idea. Otherwise, I do like having Mastery around, a nice combo text with enough atlas like feel.

A set of operative videos (SAGES and ACS I think both sell DVDs) might be interesting, though not owning one myself, don't know how much I'd use them personally.

Complications in Surgery (Mulholland and Doherty) is a great book to have around if you are already well stocked with regular texts. Particularly for an acute care surgeon who has to fix a lot of other people's complications.

Also, a good critical care text is not a bad thing.

Maybe a subscription to selected readings? Have to stay ahead of the residents on your reading or you're bound to get shown up!
 
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