https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844
>The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. This is what makes drugs so different from anything else in life...Virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors...the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe. The patients don't realise that, although their doctors may know a lot about diseases and human physiology and psychology, they know very, very little about drugs that hasn't been carefully concocted and dressed up by the drug industry.
About the Author
>Professor Peter C Gøtzsche graduated as a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician in 1984. He is a specialist in internal medicine; he worked with clinical trials and regulatory affairs in the drug industry 1975–83, and at hospitals in Copenhagen 1984–95. He co-founded The Cochrane Collaboration in 1993 and established The Nordic Cochrane Centre the same year. He became professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis in 2010 at the University of Copenhagen., Peter Gøtzsche has published more than 50 papers in ‘the big five’ (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and New England Journal of Medicine) and his scientific works have been cited over 10000 times., Peter Gøtzsche has an interest in statistics and research methodology. He is a member of several groups publishing guidelines for good reporting of research and has co-authored CONSORT for randomised trials (www.consort-statement.org), STROBE for observational studies (www.strobe-statement.org), PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (www.prisma-statement.org), and SPIRIT for trial protocols (www.spirit-statement.org). Peter Gøtzsche is an editor in the Cochrane Methodology Review Group.
I used this book when I took the course, and got me through it without problems. I never read another EC book tho, but I liked this one.
https://www.amazon.com/Electrochemical-Methods-Fundamentals-Allen-Bard/dp/0471043729
More likely the 3rd edition that was made in 1970.
It is a better book than most on the market and only ~$15. Better in terms of clearly and concisely written. Downsides are a smaller problem set than modern textbooks, no online companion, and some out of date constants (since the 1970s we've redefined the basis of a few constants).
I agree to some extent with what you cited as being wrong with our system. But the corruption in our healthcare system is so deeply rooted in k street lobbying payments to Congress that a single payer solution from Congress would only codify it and make it metastasize further.
Would suggest reading this book
https://www.amazon.com/Price-We-Pay-American-Care/dp/1635574110
for some different ideas on how to break free of the corruption that the system has spawned.
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844
>The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. This is what makes drugs so different from anything else in life...Virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors...the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe. The patients don't realise that, although their doctors may know a lot about diseases and human physiology and psychology, they know very, very little about drugs that hasn't been carefully concocted and dressed up by the drug industry.
About the Author
>Professor Peter C Gøtzsche graduated as a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician in 1984. He is a specialist in internal medicine; he worked with clinical trials and regulatory affairs in the drug industry 1975–83, and at hospitals in Copenhagen 1984–95. He co-founded The Cochrane Collaboration in 1993 and established The Nordic Cochrane Centre the same year. He became professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis in 2010 at the University of Copenhagen., Peter Gøtzsche has published more than 50 papers in ‘the big five’ (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and New England Journal of Medicine) and his scientific works have been cited over 10000 times., Peter Gøtzsche has an interest in statistics and research methodology. He is a member of several groups publishing guidelines for good reporting of research and has co-authored CONSORT for randomised trials (www.consort-statement.org), STROBE for observational studies (www.strobe-statement.org), PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (www.prisma-statement.org), and SPIRIT for trial protocols (www.spirit-statement.org). Peter Gøtzsche is an editor in the Cochrane Methodology Review Group.
There's a book ("Espresso coffee. The science of quality") written by Andrea Illy and Rinantonio Viani. You'll find very interesting details there. Available at Amazon
Read this book, it will BLOW your fucking mind. I learned so many new things about the healthcare system in the US I never knew before:
https://www.amazon.com/Price-We-Pay-American-Care/dp/1635574110
> most doctors are 0% captured by big pharma. go look at the data.
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844
>The book addresses, in evidence-based detail, an extraordinary system failure caused by widespread crime, corruption, bribery and impotent drug regulation in need of radical reforms. "The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs.
>This is what makes drugs so different from anything else in life...Virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors...the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe. The patients don't realize that, although their doctors may know a lot about diseases and human physiology and psychology, they know very, very little about drugs that hasn't been carefully concocted and dressed up by the drug industry
Make a little note of things to make sure you check. There's no shame - tell them you got the idea from Checklist Manifesto.
You can do electric or paper. If you're new, I'd go with clipboard and paper so you can jot notes wherever.
Biggest tip: Before you leave the property, check that your dimensions close the floorplan. I mean check that one side is 24' and the other sides total to that as well. It's really stressful getting back to the office and seeing a 5' gap between sides.
One thing I do is print the Assessor sketch and use that as a guide or check while I'm out on property visits.
Lastly, you mention you don't have a lot of experience. I'm not sure if that's for measuring or property visits in general. Be kind and professional, but don't get pushed around. If the agent or owner starts prodding for values, just say you haven't worked through that yet. Also, if this is like your first property visit, it seems odd to me that the supervisor wouldn't go on a few with you to get you oriented.
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare-dp-1846198844/dp/1846198844/ref=mt\_other?\_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis https://www.amazon.com/dp/0124297854/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_FQ8H0YN2Q3T918EX3NMA
One of my favorite books for synthesis! Provides 1page of details & mechanism and one page of uses in total syntheses/literature examples (along with citation) for a bunch of named reactions. A great resource to have and very fun book to flip through & go down rabbit holes of “oh wow i wonder how they made that…checks citation”
I have some basic questions. 1. At what level do you plan to include the reactions? Sophomore organic? Advanced undergraduate? Graduate? 2. Why do you want more reactions that are named after people? Are you connecting the chemistry with the historical period? 3. Mechanistically, many named reactions are similar to "unnamed" reactions. For example, the Claisen condensation is named after a person, but the very similar Aldol condensation is not. 4. A good resource for named reactions is Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis https://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Applications-Reactions-Organic-Synthesis/dp/0124297854
Rob Hoos' Modulating the Flavor of Coffee is one I'd recommend. Willem Boot has some free stuff that has been invaluable, though modern wisdom goes against some of his advice. Tim Wendelboe has a few videos out there that I've found worth revisiting.
I'd actually advise to stay away from Rao stuff at least at first. He has some good info, but he also teaches some hocus-pocus stuff as "Commandments." If he said something to the effect of "when you're starting out, here's some general rules you should try to follow" I'd be all for it, but instead he teaches them as Absolute Truths and they simply are wrong in that context. It may be that the spirit of his advice is right for newbies, but the way he delivers it is definitely all wrong. He's the reason so many people think they can look at a profile and have some idea what a coffee tastes like (they can't, profiles are useful relative to other profiles on the same equipment, period).
If you're really into the chemistry and science of coffee, Illy's book is probably the most comprehensive piece of modern literature on the subject. It's pretty freaking dense though.
Basically yes. It’s all to do with checklist design. If you make a checklist too long and full of stuff you already know how to do without a checklist, you’ll end up skipping ahead on the checklist and actually skipping that one critical step that was buried in all the other minutia. If you’re interested in more about checklist design, I’d recommend the Checklist Manifesto. Also of all the times I’ve had an emergency, I’ve never used guard since I’m already talking to someone on a different frequency.
Read good books. I'm from the UK where all university undergraduates are familiar with Clayden's organic chemistry https://www.amazon.co.uk/Organic-Chemistry-Jonathan-Clayden/dp/0198503466
But get a good text book, read it back to front, and do practice questions
I’m currently reading <em>The Price We Pay</em> by Marty Makary and I would recommend it to anybody curious about the crisis in American healthcare. He also writes about solutions to these problems so it’s not all doom and gloom.
Along with "Unaccountable"
https://www.amazon.com/Unaccountable-Hospitals-Transparency-Revolutionize-Health/dp/1608198383
I think transparency will solve many issues in the US health care system. You should check out this book!
Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
Organic chemists in general love name dropping named reactions (pun intended). I second the Kurti book mentioned above. It’s basically just a list of named reactions along with brief summary and relevant sources:
This maybe? https://www.amazon.com.au/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844/ref=nodl_
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare by Peter Gotzsche.
How to lie with statistics by Darrel Huff is also a good book. You really can twist stats to say what you want, like how America is dealing with the coronavirus according to Trump.
There is a book written by Dr. Marty Makary that discusses the role of hospitals in the billing and suing of patients. Insurance companies are by no means innocent but the villain is the hospital who chooses to sue a patient. Here is a link to the book but if you can get it from a library it is far less expensive but no less informative. https://www.amazon.com/Price-We-Pay-American-Care/dp/1635574110
No more than ever the book Unaccountable is applicable. We need to create transparency in the system so that the public can see the difference in error rates between their physicians and NPs.
Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care https://www.amazon.com/dp/1608198383/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_gsgmFbJX3EW19
By Dr. Martin Makary MD
Espresso Coffee: The Science Of Quality
> Written by leading coffee technology specialists in consultation with some of the world's biggest coffee manufacturers, the second edition of the successful Espresso Coffee will once again comprehensively cover the current status of the chemistry and technology of espresso coffee. It comprehensively covers topics such as agronomy, green coffee processing, roasting/grinding, packaging, percolating and decaffeination techniques. It provides a comprehensive resource for those interested in the fundamental notions of coffee quality; with a point of reference given in the form of a detailed bibliography to provide direction to the wider literature.
> Mennesker som har det reelt vondt må hjelpes uansett konstnad og midler.
Bare trist at vi har en legimiddelindustri som er mer ute etter profitt enn å hjelpe folk:
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844
Denne boka ble forøvrig kåret til årets bok av en av de største og mest konservative legeforeningene i England, om du skulle bli fristet til å sette den i tvil.
Here's the link to the book on amazon if you're interested in reading :) Has some good ideas for accountability that might apply to medical abuse of patients and so patients can find out about incompetent doctors as well: https://www.amazon.com/Unaccountable-Hospitals-Transparency-Revolutionize-Health/dp/1608198383
Vet du hva mann kaller legemiddelindustrien?
Grådige som fy
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Psychiatry-Organised-Denial-Gotzsche-ebook/dp/B014SO7GHS
Molecules That Changed the World by K. C. Nicolaou, presents around 40 natural products that all have an enormous impact on our everyday life.
I didn't do CHM136/138 here, but I did do a fuck ton of organic chem at another university before I came here.
The key is to understanding how everything operates. If you memorize anything, you are fucked. The book we used for the classes was this and it gave me a fair amount of practice. It's probably overkill for what you want, but all the other organic chem textbooks just approached things by more memorization.
When I focused on drawing my reaction mechanisms right and pushing electrons/bonds around properly, knowing pKa's, and doing tons of examples to make sure that things make sense.
However the CHM138 exams look very vicious for a first year course, on par with UofT I guess (or my old uni was shit). I did a third year course at another university and only that covered some of the stuff on there, and it seems to borrow on some of the topics from there.
For example, if you have 2-chloro-2-methypropane and you add water/EtOH (based on the exam question), would H2O attack? Would it take off a proton on one of the CH3's and eliminate it? Would it then attack? Or would the slight acidity of EtOH do something else?
It's been a while since I've done this but you should understand why things happen. When you do, there's not much else that can stop you. One key is to make sure that you ask (when you get the answer) is why other things don't happen. If you don't ask why SN reactions don't happen over E1/E2 reactions, you might end up costing yourself half the understanding.
Regardless, I say wait until someone who has done that course responds, but this is what I found worked for me when I did orgchem.