White Coat Companion 2023

The White Coat Companion is a comprehensive review book for the USMLE Step 2 and 3 exams. It contains all the high-yield information needed for every medical specialty, including Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, OB-GYN, Psychiatry, and more.

A comprehensive review book for USMLE Step 2 CK that pairs with Boards and Beyond Step 2/3 video series.

Full medical review for core clinical clerkships and USMLE Step 2CK and 3 exams

Ace your shelf exams and USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3! Designed by the leading educators behind the popular online resource Boards and Beyond, White Coat Companion provides succinct content in a way that helps you build your clinical knowledge. Covering key information about internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, OB-GYN, surgery, and neurology, this is an effective resource for quick review, note taking, and deeper studying. White Coat Companion is the most up-to-date text of its kind and is the perfect companion for anyone going through core clinical clerkships. The book features: • 50+ new, high-yield images and figures • Updates reflect guideline updates and new clinical evidence • Improved index and table of contents facilitate easy searching • High-yield tables and algorithms • Organized by both organ system and relevant clerkship

A health care provider takes a sample of your blood, urine, other body fluid, or body tissue during a laboratory (lab) test to obtain information about your health. A lot of the time, lab tests is used to help diagnose or check for a particular disease or condition. Diseases can be diagnosed earlier, before symptoms appear. To keep an eye on a disease or determine whether treatment is working, other tests are used. In order to get a more comprehensive picture of your organs and systems, laboratory tests may also be performed.

During a culture-shocked exchange year in Japan, fifteen-year-old Lisa Dempster’s imagination is ignited by the story of the henro michi, an arduous 1200 kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan. Perfectly suiting the romantic view of herself as a dusty, travel-worn explorer (well, one day), she promises to return to Japan and walk the henro michi, one way or another, as soon as humanely possible. Fast-forward thirteen years, and Lisa’s life is vastly different to what she pictured it would be. Severely depressed, socially withdrawn, overweight, on the dole and living with her mum, she is 28 and miserable. And then, completely by chance, the henro michi comes back into her life, through a book at her local library. It’s a sign. She decides then and there to go back to Japan almost immediately: to walk the henro michi, and walk herself back to health. Brushing aside the barriers that other people might find daunting – the 1200km of mountainous terrain, the sweltering Japanese summer, the fact she has no money and has never done a multi-day hike before – Lisa is determined to walk the pilgrimage, or die trying.

From the daughter of the iconoclastic comedic performer, Kelly Carlin’s memoir A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George “is written in the DNA of a Carlin, honest, biting, savage, funny, sad, dark, and profound...Hold on; like George Carlin, this book gives you a hell of a ride” (New York Times bestselling author and multi-award-winning comedian Lewis Black). Truly the voice of a generation, George Carlin gave the world some of the most hysterical and iconic comedy routines of the last fifty years. From the “Seven Dirty Words” and “A Place for My Stuff”, to “Religion is Bullshit” and “The American Dream”, he perfected the art of making audiences double over with laughter while simultaneously making people wake up to the realities (and insanities) of life in the twentieth century. Few people glimpsed the inner life of this beloved comedian, but his only child, Kelly, was there to see it all. Born at the very beginning of his decades-long career in comedy, she slid around the “old Dodge Dart,” as he and wife Brenda drove around the country to “hell gigs.” She witnessed his transformation in the ’70s, as he fought back against—and talked back to—the establishment; she even talked him down from a really bad acid trip a time or two (“Kelly, the sun has exploded and we have eight, no-seven and a half minutes to live!”). Kelly not only watched her father constantly reinvent himself and his comedy, but also had a front row seat to the roller coaster turmoil of her family’s inner life—alcoholism, cocaine addiction, life-threatening health scares, and a crushing debt to the IRS. But having been the only “adult” in her family prepared her little for the task of her own adulthood. All the while, Kelly sought to define her own voice as she separated from the shadow of her father’s genius. With rich humor and deep insight, Kelly Carlin pulls back the curtain on what it was like to grow up as the daughter of one of the most recognizable comedians of our time, and become a woman in her own right. This vivid, hilarious, heartbreaking story is at once singular and universal—it is a contemplation of what it takes to move beyond the legacy of childhood, and forge a life of your own.

The only book of forms that exactly follows the content of the PMBOK Guide, A Project Manager's Book of Forms provides a "road map" approach so readers know exactly where they are and what forms precede and follow their current position on a project. This Second Edition aligns with the release of the Fifth Edition of the PMBOK Guide. Hard copies of the forms may be taken and reproduced directly from the book, and completely editable electronic versions of all the blank forms, in Microsoft Office-compatible format, are available on an accompanying website. You may use them as is or tailor them to your own needs.