... steep for the product but I do find it useful as a PA student who rounds on patients before ...
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The price is a little steep for the product but I do find it useful as a PA student who rounds on patients before some rotations.
253520
Picked up a couple of useful tips for my own use of a similar procedure doing hypnosis with clients for weight loss
3160765
My girlfriend wants to be a PA and this seems to be a more relaxing way for her to learn anatomy.
4628179
I am a Type I diabetic, I use this as supplement and love it. I can tell when I take it and don't take it, when I am on it my levels are much easier to control than when I am off of it. Using it with my doctors supervision, I can see the high spikes come down and my use of insulin to cover those is lower. I wouldn't do it with out having a doctors help though as it could lead to going low. Doesn't work for everyone, but seems to be working for me so far.
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I'm a Respiratory Therapy student, so I do a lot of writing and erasing/updating of patient progress and equipment settings. I have yet to erase through a piece of paer, unlike pencil erasers tend to do. I also like being able to underling in my texts, then erase cleanly before I move on. (I have Frixion hiliters, too - they are the bomb!!)
4610406
Only drawback is, it's not terrific for skinny patients who have COPD as one has trouble finding a surface on them which can be sealed around the diaphragm enough to get a good auscultation, but you can make due.
4678842
very nice! I am in dental hygiene school and I only clean 1 patients teeth in a day and noticed my hands normally hurt so i gotta toughen up because I'm gonna need to clean at least 10 patients teeth in a day in the real world :) hoping this helps, I've been using it only a few days so far and I see a little difference already
1462573
Haven't used it much but so far I love it. I am obtaining my FNP degree,  but I primarily bought it because my son has severe asthma attacks and I preferred to have my own prior to having to make ER trips.
3275742
Some helpful tips.  It is geared toward traditional students, not non-traditional like myself.  Still I was able to pick up a few things.
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As a practicing physician, I enjoyed reading "Drop Dead Healthy" and I think many of my patients would also enjoy reading it. Some criticize Jacobs for being too superficial. After all, how could one possibly benefit from a month or two of any approach that might take years to bring about meaningful results? I think his critics are missing the point. If you are already a committed Paleoista or vegan, this book is probably not for you. If you are like many of my patients and find yourself confused by the plethora of healthcare advice available today, you likely will find this book very useful.

I am very familiar with the various approaches recommended to him by his army of experts and I have my own opinions about their merits and flaws. In my opinion the real purpose of his quest was not to turn himself into the healthiest person alive, but rather to introduce the reader to all the approaches out there that claim to do so. In other words he plays the role of a "royal food taster"--he tests out the various approaches to give you some perspective to help you decide if you want to take the time and effort to dive into the approach on a more sustained basis.

I also like his sense of humor. Many of these approaches do have an element of silliness to them and Jacobs rarely misses the mark when it comes to humor. I am still chuckling about the comments his pink camouflaged duffle bag generated when he entered his first Triathlon.

Jacobs is also very down to earth and easy to identify with, but don't let that fool you. He has a keen sense of the clinical research backing various approaches and when he does venture an opinion, he is usually not far off the mark.

The appendix section titled "The Ten Best Pieces of Advice I've Gotten All Year" are actually quite good and I agree with most of them. He should have included number 11: "Cut out all sugar and high fructose corn syrup from your diet and keep your fructose intake below 25 grams per day." As my friend and medical classmate Richard Johnson has shown in extensive research, excessive fructose is a chronic toxin akin to cigarette smoking, so you don't want to leave this one off your list.

When he recommends "Don't eat white stuff unless you want to getter fatter" he mentions that potatoes should be limited. There's a raging battle in the Paleo community about whether or not some white starches like potatoes and white rice are "safe starches". Personally, I think that if you are metabolically healthy, including some potatoes and white rice in your diet is not such a bad thing.

Overall, I think "Drop Dead Healthy" is a good read. As a practicing physician with over 40 years of experience in the trenches, I really enjoyed the book. I suspect that you will too.
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I really like this product, although I've only done level I. I concede that most of the criticism I've seen of this teaching method are valid such as the lack of emphasis on verb conjugation or the ability of one to get through the levels without learning much by employing a test taking strategy without ever learning very much. That said, this is still a self education product and one gets out what they put in. Although some perhaps are not aware to pay attention to verb conjugation, this product will teach this to you if you pay attention to how the verbs are conjugated in the examples. This also goes for the product in general, or even class based education. Perhaps this is a problem with our education system in general motivating people towards high grades instead of the quanitity of knowledge and skill obtained. One can either focus on getting through the software with as high of a score as possible, or one can focus on learning as much as possible and spend the proper time in the lessons alongside practice and research. No product or class is going to adequately teach a language to someone who isn't properly motivated, or possesses the self discipline required to undergo a self education product. Perhaps the software overstates it's ability to make learning a language effortless.

Someone mentioned how one can pick the right answers to the questions if for example the statement mentions a woman, one can select the picture with the woman in it without ever understanding anything else mentioned in the sentence. I get the impression that this is actually intentional in the software and is one of the methods they use to introduce new material. By the time one has gotten to the point where they are expected to have learned the rest of the sentence, the multiple choice answers are designed so one can no longer rely on the more basic portion of the sentence. I expect the same goes for verb conjugation further into the courses.

In summary if you are the type of person who is able to identify what they need to learn, self assess their grasp of the material being taught, and self research the answers to questions you may have, then this product alongside proper research materials works quite well. It also won't bring you to the level that you could be dropped off in a village in Colombia and properly communicate from day one, but it does leave one with a good grasp of the language basics and if one is planning on moving abroad it gives a very good foundation for acclimation with a new language.
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This book is handy, but I don't think was necessary for me to be successful in my surgical rotations as a student. I think uptodate and access surgery are more than adequate. I went on to do my residency in surgery and I will tell you if I were a student again, I would not purchase this book knowing that it did not supplement or structure information to increase my surgical knowledge as a student.
3637970
This is a useful book for a med student, junior resident in radiology or pediatrics but not a substitute for a definitive reference needed if you're pursuing practice or fellowship in ped radiology or studying for the general ABR exams.
3155860
I used this for my Advanced Professional Practice Management class. It had some good information, however I felt it was geared more towards primary care. I found this to not be as helpful to me as an acute care student.
1469758
I am an oncology nurse practitioner, and was happy to see this book come out.  One of the pharmaceutical companies provides copies to patients.  The very nice thing about the book is that is addresses the various side effects patients have and what foods are good to counteract them - things like nausea, diarrhea, fatigue, all have specific foods to eat. This is very helpful, and good advice.  The book has many colorful recipes that are not just for cancer patients - they are colorful and nutritious, but somebody other than the patient would have to shop for the ingredients, and make them.  The ingredients are not what most people have in the house, and most of the recipes are labor intensive.  I know my patients would not be making spring rolls in a bamboo steamer, or appetizers with various unusual spices.  Nice, but not practical. So the book is a mixture of practical advice, but complex recipes.  I know a dietician authored the book, so definitely the recipes are healthy, but you'd almost have to own a restaurant to make most of them.  That's why my review is mixed.  My patients have found the advice, but not the recipes, helpful
3838058
It was not as insightful as I hoped but it was helpful.
700535
I got this for nursing school and it does a nice job for what I am using it for.