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102 pages of award-winning poems dealing with life in the Midwest for a medical doctor and family man. ... Read more

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Strong book of moving poems
John (Jack) Vanek is an M.D. with heart as shown in this fine book of poems, many of which have won awards, and many will win your heart.

Heart murmurs...how apropos
A great collection of poems from a man who just happens to be a physician.The title of the poetry book "Heart Murmurs" can be taken multiple ways, not the least of which is the divisions of the sections into Life, Lament, Love, and Longing.This poet's vision is human; he deals with disease, death, and family--all with heart! Yet, there are some humorous poems among some of the more solemn, thoughtful ones. A highly recommended read for anyone who is searching for some truth about life.

The Doctor Is In (and so is his poetry)
What a terrific collection of poems!Yes, they are heartfelt.Like love, lament, longing, and life, his four thematic sections of the book, Jack Vanek's poems reflect a range of experiences we can all identify with at one time or another.From subtle humor to romantic stirrings to mournful losses, he weaves a complete tapestry of emotion in this compilation.Highly recommended for not only lovers of poetry but all lovers of life.

Poems from the heart
This first big collection by doctor John Vanek shows his deeper side as a physician with heart. He conveys a sense of caring we would all want in our doctors and our poets.

My thoughts on Heart Murmurs
It is evident that the author is a physician. It is unique to be able to examine what is in the doctor's heart by reading several of the poems in this book! It is also evident that the physician is a family man with parents, a wife and a son and a daughter. The themes are very poignant.

The imagery is so natural and engaging. It stands out to me as one of the strengths of the book. I really enjoyed the wry wit and the surprise endings of several of the poems. The use of play on words is fun in several other of the poems,too.

All in all, I enjoyed the poems of this author very much! Is there more? ... Read more

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The 4th edition of this popular reference provides the perfect way to enhance skills in recognizing normal and abnormal heart and lung sounds. Now in two formats, book with CD or book with audio cassette.Plus over 135 illustrations to help illustrate clarify key concepts.Glossary of key terms and conditions provides fast, accurate referencing. ... Read more

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medical book
I initially made great use of this manual, but no longer consult it, even though I like having it available should the time come when I want it again. ... Read more

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BORDIGHERA POETRY PRIZE • 11 sponsored by THE SOnIA RAIZISS-GIOP CHARITABlE FOunDATIOn The poems of Heart Murmur are richly talky and utterly authentic, one moment wry and self-deprecating and the next astonishingly open-hearted.����I honor this book for its celebration of our foolish hopes, our crazed and enlivening appetites. - Nancy Eimers Heart Murmer is an electric storm of language running a gauntlet of feeling from grief to gallows humor that left me astonished. Steffen burns the solipsistic personal at the stake. - Roger Weingarten Steffen scrupulously avoids flamboyance, the sort of surface dazzle we find in poems that, like the stereotypical Chinese meal, are immediately appealing but leave us hungry instants later. His plain style approach allows his insights, as it were, to sneak up on us . . . until we discover ourselves (how did it happen?) in a world so full of pathos that we catch our breaths. - Sydney Lea ... Read more

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A fantastic CD-ROM textbook combo for heart sounds
Barbara Erikson's Heart Sounds and Murmurs, third edition, is an outstanding reference that defies the concepts needed by practitioners and students who are learning or reviewing cardiac auscultation. The audio-program - now in compact disc format - and accompanying booklet explain how to identify and interpret normal and common abnormal heart sounds. Validation of self-learning is made possible by listening to and identifying the "unknown" heart sounds at the end of each chapter.
Features:
Presents content written by a well respected author to ensure that information is current and clinically accurate.
Provides learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter to help students, reviewers, and teachers identify key concepts.
Includes and index, a detailed table of contents, a glossary, and a transcript of the audio program to facilitate ease of use and to aid learning.
Features figures and tables throughout the text that permit learners to visualize concepts and sounds.
New Features:
Includes varied heart sounds caused by mechanical valve replacement (prosthetic) devices that are currently available and in use in several countries.
Includes pacemaker and extracardiac sounds, including plural and cardiac friction rubs.
provides audio in compact disc format.
Description is © Mosby ... Read more

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Heart Sounds and Murmurs Across the Lifespan defines the concepts needed to learn or review cardiac auscultation. The combination of audio (available on either CD or audiocassette) and text explains how to identify and interpret normal and common abnormal heart sounds. Some heart sounds are reproduced on a heart sound simulator, allowing for a clear, crisp grasp of specific, individual sounds. Others are recorded from real patients to distinguish between similar heart and lung sounds, and to help the listener select the heart sounds from the auditory milieu. Covers the distinct heart sounds (S1 through S4) first, then graduates the listener to more complex sounds and murmurs. Builds upon the individual heart sounds by including end-of-chapter reinforcement in more than 170 self-learning, "unknown" heart sounds exercises and questions with answers. Also groups extraneous sounds around which normal heart sounds they are likely to be heard, i.e., "sounds around S1". This approach allows practitioners to build confidence in their ability to discern and identify sounds by being able to place them within the cardiac cycle. ... Read more

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Great book but A cassette??
The book is good. But be aware the audio is a horrible cassette. I don't even own a cassette player. Thus, the purpose of listening to the sounds is lost. DON'T BUY THIS! I must say, it was my fault for not reading the cover before ordering but in this current times I would have never expected a cassette. ... Read more

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In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading."Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so. ... Read more

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Are you a God-Buff? Or does the topic of religion give you the “HeBGB’s?” Either way, you’ll find inspiration in Heart Murmurs by Joan Butman.

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real!
Joan Butman tells us howChrist reveals himselfin her everyday life! He is real to her and she makes Him real to us. Thank you Joan.

Food for thought.......
I happen to know and admire Joan already and her book just reinforced what I already know about her wonderful character.As a wife, mother and denizen of the same Connecticut town I know exactly of what she speaks when she writes about all the pressures we face on a day to day basis.I received the book in the mail yesterday and read it cover to cover.I couldn't stop thinking about it and will be rereading it today.For me, finding God in my everyday life is a journey that I have just started.I'm glad she is along for the ride. ... Read more

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Nadia’s Mama says she's not like other kids—her heart can't take the strain. Just exactly what is wrong with her heart? In the process of searching for the truth, Nadia finds the inner strength to get help for herself and Mama. ... Read more

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Hearts are more than paper cutouts....
Nadia's father died of a heart attack when she was five. Her mother told Nadia that she had the same condition, and kept Nadia sequestered all of her life. Now in sixth grade, Nadia has no friends, no activities, and the bleak outlook of being further isolated by being home schooled. Her slightest cough has her mother putting to bed. Sometimes in school, Nadia gives up as well and puts her head on her desk--after all, no one expects anything from the sick girl. She tries out for the school play, does a brilliant audition and is devastated when she doesn't get the part. She finds out later that her mother told the teacher not to allow Nadia to participate. Nadia is old enough now to raise questions, and, with typical coming-of-age surging of independence,to rebel against her parent. She finds out, by virtue of being in a position to read her medical chart at the doctor's office, that she is perfectly fine, a slight heart murmur notwithstanding. This encourages Nadia to take her life back to herself. Some reviewers have felt the narrator's voiceto be unsympathetically whiny, but it is perfectly well-drawn for a child who was treated as sickly her whole life. Who wouldn't be whiny? This is a well-done chyrsalis-to-butterfly story--the larval stage being neither understood nor revered by most onlookers.

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Nadia really does want to play with the other kids. She is tired of playing with paper dolls. But her overprotective mother will not allow her to do anything that will put her fragile heart at risk; i.e. anything that could help her make real friends--running, jumping, rolling around on the forbidden sawdust pile. Besides, the paper dolls have never laughed at her. They have never pointed at her or called her "the sick girl." Still, as she plays with her dolls, despite her mother's constant warnings to the contrary, it occurs to Nadia that she does not wish to allow fear to dominate her life: "Paper dolls. Paper books. Paper cards. Paper life" (p. 85).

So, Nadia devises a plan. She will become an actress. She will secure the lead in the sixth-grade play, and then she will be someone everyone will want to know. She won't tell her mother, of course, and by the time Mrs. Riley knows that the little white lies she has told to get the role are, well, not the complete story, no one will be angry with her because she will have shown them all that she does indeed have value beyond being a source of constant worry for her mother and a target for teasing for the kids at school.

Arrington does an excellent job of exploring the problems that arise when a parent becomes overprotective of a child with a medical condition. Additionally, the unexpected twist she includes is a welcome breath of fresh air in this reviewer's opinion. It is entirely credible, but keeps the storyline from becoming predictable. Nadia's quest to be more than just "the sick girl" becomes a journey for both her and her mother, and it is one that the reader will be glad she has taken, as well.

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Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA. English/Spanish update of the original CD-ROM. System requirements: Mac System 7 and Windows 3.1. 8MB RAM, dual-speed CD-ROM drive, and 256 monitor. ... Read more

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Excellent program -Needs to be updated for current OSs
This is an excellent tool for personal learning and for teaching others heart sounds in a class setting. Along with the actual sounds (all types of murmurs, snaps, clicks, rubs, etc., etc.,) it makes excellent use of visual aides such as echocardiograms, animations, graphs, phonocardiograms, etc., etc. It also includes fairly clear textual explanations (some times the full understanding of a particular sound has to be pieced together from texts located under several examples rather than giving a complete account with each example) of the mechanics and physiology/pathophysiology of the sounds so that the learner gains a good understanding of what is going on with what they are hearing. I have used it often in the past for teaching medical students and practicing physicians in other countries (outside the the US) with very good results.
The big negative concerning this program has been mentioned by other reviewers. It is badly out of date for use with current computer operating systems. It was made in 1997 and I don't believe it has been upgraded for new systems since then. I have to look for older computers to get it to work. When it does work it is great.
Hey, Drs. Criley and Criley and Mr. Zalace and Blaufuss Medical Media - how about updating it for a new generation of medical learners??! If that is done it is well worth the price.

The physiological origins of heart sounds and murmurs: ...
John Criley and his son David have done a great job producing this tutorial. It should be in every medical library and seen by every medical student.

Available at Blaufuss Multimedia
This program is available, and updated for newer systems, and is also supported by the company that produced it, Blaufuss Multimedia.If you have trouble finding the product on Amazon, search for Heart Sounds on the internet.

This book/cd is out of print
and is no longer supported by the company that produced it. It is good only for older computer systems, read the specs, windows 3.1 or macintosh 7.

It's a good book/cd but is not New.

User friendly, physiologically sound, and truly unique.
Criley's interactive CD ROM program on cardiac physiology and findings is a masterpiece.The content is solid and enables an inquisitive student (any student of medicine) to learn to relate physical findings with thephysiology as represented by phono, ECG, pressure traces and renderings ofthe physical cardiac cycle.The multimedia presentation far excels thatwhich is available on the WEB and makes for an intriguing learningexperience.I have delighted in presenting physiology to students,housestaff, and colleagues through this means.It is a worthwhileinvestment for any committed medical educator. ... Read more

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Mitral Valve Prolapse is a heart murmur found commonly in the general public and can cause heart palpitations, orthostatic hypotension (dizziness upon standing), other symptoms of an imbalanced nervous system and anxiety/panic symptoms. Medical Research studies have found it to be even more common in thyroid disease patients, especially those with autoimmune type thyroid disorders. It is also believed to be about 5 times more common in females than in males.Many people with MVP do not experience symptoms while those who do are termed as having "MVP-Syndrome". The condition can also cause an imbalance in the "involuntary nervous system" (dysautonomia) and has been associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in some patients who have it.This in-print book, which is also available as an e-book title on Amazon, can help to provide the reader with a general education regarding the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of this very common heart murmur. ... Read more

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My writing is an emotional outlet for me, therfore my best poems are written when I feel the need to express myself in a creative way. Sometimes a phrase or subject comes to mind and the poem pours out of my thoughts as fast as I can write it down. Therefore the poetry in this book is an eclectic collection written about such diverse subjects as love, death, grief, divorce, faith, humor, and a variety of other subjects confronting us on a daily basis. Due to the array of subjects there is at least one poem in this book that anyone will find enjoyable or meaningful in their life.

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AMAZING
I received this book from Mr. Calloway and it is awesome. I have read it a dozen times and still continue to read it every night. No matter how I'm feeling I can always read one of his poems to make me feel better. There's something in there to relate to just about anything. I absolutely LOVE this book! ... Read more

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Collection of heart sounds and murmurs digitally recorded from patients. Includes more than 800 auscultatory illustrations and three CD-ROMs. ... Read more

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It was a great gift....
I am a medical student and I bought this as a gift for a friend in nursing school.He found it a little intimidating at first, probably because he hadn't really covered much of what was on the CD but he has grown to love the set!It has helped him a great deal.It is a little pricey but it is a great gift idea for someone who is studying a health profession in your life.

Things you need to learn on your own.
After finishing medical school and never getting great teaching on the cardiac auscultatory exam, I purchased this book in hopes of learing a little more.

This book and 3 CD set have great auditory examples with discussion both verbal & written by Dr. Mason.Recommended for anyone who wants to improve their cardiac exam! ... Read more