Medical books for A level students

[Luke456]

You are able to download books via the internet absolutely free? What a wonderful resource! Thanks stefi

[markyc]

A quick search on google for Kumar & Clark free - Google Search

brings up a few free ways to download Kumar & Clark.

[Drneuro]

I think it's on a site called maxiwarez or something as well. Btw if you download it you might not get access to the online consult thing, as someone has to have signed up to it, and then given you their login details

[markyc]

Thanks for the tip, how much is it to sign up to it?

[stefi]

You are able to download books via the internet absolutely free? What a wonderful resource! Thanks stefi

You're welcome. I could spent a lot of time looking for what I need but I actually always find it. Just you know, keep looking for the books you want on the Internet , if you search enough you'll find what you need. Sites like AvaxHome or RapidShare are good for this. Also try these : Free Medical Books | by Amedeo.com , Medical Student | Medical Education | Medical School | - MedicalStudent.com: A digital library of authoritative medical information for the medical student and all students of medicine .There are many links to useful websites on this forum so I won't post them here , just look up the threats.

[Drneuro]

Thanks for the tip, how much is it to sign up to it?

You can't pay to sign up, it's a thing where when you buy the book there's a code inside it and you can use that to sign up to the site. Someone somewhere will have posted one up, it's just a matter of finding it =)

[gdent]

Hi

Basically, i was wondering if there were any books on anything related to do medicine, perhaps surgery in particular, which were suitable for A level students to read. Not for a heard start or anything but just for interest sake.

Thanks

I'm not convinced about the value of reading medical textbooks before you've finished your A-levels. What would be worthwhile, in my opinion, would be reading about current issues and controversies in healthcare. As well as raising your awareness of what's going on in medicine & society, reading stuff like this might help you to deal with the topical discussion sections of some medical school interviews.

Off the top of my head, one book that might be worth reading is Raymond Tallis's "Hippocratic Oaths". Raymond Tallis was a professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Manchester until 2006 and used to run admissions for the medical school there. He has written several books about contemporary issues in medicine and philosophy which are worth a look.

If you have a particular interest in surgery, it might be useful to read something about the history of surgery. Understanding how advances are made and how far we've come within the past 150 years is very illuminating and will give you a grounding in what surgery can & can't (currently) do. This might be more useful at your stage than trying to learn principles of surgery without the necessary foundation of anatomy that you'll learn in your first 1-2 years at medical school. The same would go for medicine, public health, etc. Roy Porter's "Blood & Guts" (recently adapted for television) might be a good starting point for the history of surgery. You could move on from this to more specialized books.

One book that I would pass a rather different comment on is Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat". While this is a good introduction to clinical neuroscience, and has probably contributed to many students' decisions to study medicine, it is name-checked in a preposterously large number of UCAS personal statements. Admissions tutors tend to be a little suspicious that people who say they've read this book either (a) haven't read it or (b) only read it because somebody told them it would look good on their personal statement.