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Highlights - Pre-clinical Sciences Video Tutorials by Walid Aziz

2012-06-02T19:38:00.000+05:30

Hi there!

This time in the Highlights section, we feature another YouTube channel that has good tutorials of medical subjects. The name of the channel is "hyperhighs". It is run by a medical student named Walid Aziz. There aren't much details about him but going by his accent, he definitely looks like an Arab and I guess that he is from Egypt, studying from University of Toronto, Canada.

But one thing you can be absolutely sure is that this guy is incredibly talented. He explains the subject by drawing diagrams and those diagrams are not just diagrams, they are works of art. The theme of his channel itself is "Science and Art". Using nothing but a normal ball point pen, he draws things better than anyone can expect. Here is a video showing some of his art

Now, keeping art aside and talking about the subject, he has made tutorials for a few topics of pre-clinical sciences only, but his explanations are really good. The videos are short, upto the point and very simple. Short and sweet is how you can best describe these videos.

Below you can find the topics on which he has made the videos in the correct order. He has made the videos into YouTube playlists but the problem is that all his playlists are in the reverse order. You can find all his playlists here.

Neuroanatomy

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 1 (Spinal Cord)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 2 (Spinal Cord)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 3 (Spinal Cord)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 4 (Spinal Cord)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 5 (Gray and White Matter)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 6 (Neuronal Structure)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 7 (Myelin)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 8 (CNS and PNS)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 9 (Brain)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 10 (Brain)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 11 (Brain)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 12 (Brain)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 13 (Brain)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 14 (Brainstem)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 15 (Brainstem)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 16 (Homunculus)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 17 (Cerebellum)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 18 (Cerebellum)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 19 (Cerebellum and Ventricles)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 20 (Brain Ventricles)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 21 (Cranial Venous Sinuses)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 22 (Cerebral Arteries)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 23 (Spinal Artery and Vertebral Veins)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 24 (Cranial Nerves)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 25 (Cranial Nerves)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 26 (Cranial Nerves and Scalp)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 27 (Neurocranium)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 28 (Cranial Nerve functions)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 29 (Cranial Nerve functions)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 30 (Basal Ganglia)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 31 (Internal Capsule and Nuclei)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 32 (Cranial Nerve Nuclei)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 33 (General Neural Pathways)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 34 (Motor Pathway)

Neuroanatomy Tutorial 35 (Sensory Pathways)

Brachial Plexus

Brachial Plexus (1/3)

Brachial Plexus (2/3)

Brachial Plexus (3/3)

Lumbosacral Plexus

Lumbosacral Plexus Anatomy (1/5)

Lumbosacral Plexus Anatomy (2/5)

Lumbosacral Plexus Anatomy (3/5)

Lumbosacral Plexus Anatomy (4/5)

Lumbosacral Plexus Anatomy (5/5)

Skeletal System

Anatomy Tutorial 1 (General Skeleton)

Anatomy Tutorial 2 (Vertebral Column: Part 1)

Anatomy Tutorial 2 (Vertebral Column: Part 2)

Anatomy Tutorial 3 (Rib Cage: Part 1)

Anatomy Tutorial 3 (Rib Cage: Part 2)

Anatomy Tutorial 4 (Scapula and Bone Structure: part 1)

Anatomy Tutorial 4 (Scapula and Bone Structure: part 2)

Anatomy Tutorial 5 (Pelvis: part 1)

Anatomy Tutorial 5 (Pelvis: part 2)

Anatomy Tutorial 5 (Pelvis: part 3)

Anatomy Tutorial 6 (Vertebra and Synovial joints: part 1)

Anatomy Tutorial 6 (Ribs: part 2)

Anatomy Tutorial 6 (Ribs: part 3)

Anatomy Tutorial 7 (Upper Limb: part 1)

Anatomy Tutorial 7 (Upper Limb: part 2)

Anatomy Tutorial 7 (Upper Limb: part 3)

Anatomy Tutorial 7 (Upper Limb: part 4)

Anatomy Tutorial 8 (Lower Limb: part 1)

Anatomy Tutorial 8 (Lower Limb: part 2)

Anatomy Tutorial 8 (Lower Limb: part 3)

Anatomy Tutorial 9 (Skull: part 1)

Anatomy Tutorial 9 (Skull: part 2)

Anatomy Tutorial 9 (Skull: part 3)

Skeletal System

Muscular System: Thoracoabdominal Wall (1/10)

Muscular System: Thoracoabdominal Wall (2/10)

Muscular System: Thoracoabdominal Wall (3/10)

Muscular System: Thoracoabdominal Wall (4/10)

Muscular System: Thoracoabdominal Wall (5/10)

Muscular System: Thoracoabdominal Wall (6/10)

Muscular System: Thoracoabdominal Wall (7/10)

Muscular System: Thoracoabdominal Wall (8/10)

Muscular System: Thoracoabdominal Wall (9/10)

Muscular System: Thoracoabdominal Wall (Review: 10/10)

Muscular System (Head 1)

Muscular System (Head 2)

Muscular System (Head 3)

Muscular System (Head 4)

Muscular System (Neck 1)

Muscular System (Neck 2)

Muscular System (Neck 3)

Muscular System (Neck 4)

Muscular System (Neck 5)

Forearm Muscles

Upper arm muscles: Attachments (part 1/6)

Upper arm muscles: Flexors (part 2/6)

Upper arm muscles: Extensors (part 3/6)

Forearm muscles: Attachments (part 4/6)

Forearm muscles: Flexors (part 5/6)

Forearm muscles: Extensors (part 6/6)

Congenital Heart Defects

Fetal CV and Congenital Heart Defects: part 1

Fetal CV and Congenital Heart Defects: part 2

Fetal CV and Congenital Heart Defects: part 3

Fetal CV and Congenital Heart Defects: part 4

Cell Physiology

Cardiovascular Physiology

Lipoprotein Physiology

Tip: Remember, you can always download YouTube videos using keepvid.com or JDownloader.

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Medical School Pathology by Dr Minarcik.

Requested Ebooks : Microbiology, Surgery, Histology

2012-05-12T15:03:00.002+05:30

These are some of the books requested by our readers. Sorry, for being so late, it's a little bit hard to find ebooks these days because of the take down of MegaUpload, closure of services by FileSonic and FileServe and reduction of speeds of free users by Rapidshare. Anyhow I managed to find these ebooks. One pro tip I'd like to give users is to use this application called JDownloader. It's a great download manager for such file sharing sites. It also supports the host which I have been using. Just copy the link and the application detects it, you can pause and resume downloads too if you want.

Junquiera's Basic Histology

Edition : 12th Edition
Author(s) : Anthony L. Mescher, PhD
Size : 127 MB
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Greenfield's Surgery Scientific Principles & Practice

Edition : 5th Edition
Author(s) : Michael W. Mulholland, Keith D. Lillemoe, Gerard M. Doherty, Ronald V. Maier, Diane M. Simeone, Gilbert R. Upchurch Jr.
Size : 65 MB
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Cameron's Current Surgical Therapy

Edition : 9th Edition
Author(s) : John L. Cameron
Size : 76 MB
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Lippincotts Illustrated Reviews - Microbiology

Edition : 2nd Edition
Author(s) : Richard A. Harvey, Pamela C. Champe, Bruce D. Fisher
Size : 95 MB

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Jawetz, Melnik and Adelberg's Medical Microbiology

Edition : 25th Edition
Author(s) : Geo. F. Brooks, Karen C. Carroll, Janet S. Butel, Stephen A. Morse
Size : 27 MB

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Mims Medical Microbiology

Edition : 25th Edition
Author(s) : Richard Goering , Hazel Dockrell, Mark Zuckerman , Derek Wakelin, Ivan Roitt, Cedric Mims, Peter L. Chiodini
Size : 75 MB

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Highlights - Medical School Pathology Video Lectures by Dr. Minarcik

2012-05-03T18:38:00.001+05:30

Hi there!

This time I've decided to create a new series of posts titled "Highlights". As the name suggests, these posts highlight various useful resources for medical students on the Internet. It is beyond our imagination that how much of information is present on the Internet, but sadly, this itself is a cause of it's being so under-used. There is so much out there that you don't bother looking out and trying to find the good things. Even after years of using the Internet, I still keep stumbling upon some really useful sites and think that I should have found it earlier. So here I will be sharing with you a few resources that I think would be of very good use.

We begin with this series of video lectures of Pathology by Dr. Minarcik. He looks like a very tech savvy professor of Pathology (we all want such teachers, don't we?), who has put up a series of videos on YouTube and the best part is that he has done it for totally free. Here is a sample video:

I have seen many of his videos and must say that he is quite good. He strictly follows the chapter sequence and syllabus of the Robbins Pathology textbook. He doesn't go into too much detail, but that is the good thing about him. His teaching experience definitely shows, as he tells us which areas to focus on and what things are not so important.

On his official channel, you can find videos of only General Pathology chapters. I guess he hasn't found time to make systemic pathology chapters specifically for YouTube. But he also runs an online pathology course each year and gives live classes to students all over the world (even interacts with them through Skype) and has recorded the videos of this course and posted on his website. I have uploaded these videos for Systemic Pathology on my channel and they are good enough as those of General Pathology. You might find the Systemic Pathology videos a bit strange as he plays some music a few times and quite often interacts with his students, but they still do a good job if you want to listen to the lecture (something is better than nothing I always say).

Here we have compiled the links for all the videos of this series for the convenience of viewers (Mind you, it took some effort). You can watch whatever chapter you want and won't have to search for the next part of the video every time. Do bookmark this page if you like to. You can find the chapter-wise links below.

General Pathology

Chapter 1 – Cell Injury, Cell Death and Adaptations

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Chapter 2 – Acute and Chronic Inflammation

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Chapter 3 – Tissue Repair: Regeneration, Healing and Fibrosis

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Chapter 4 – Hemodynamic Disorders, Thrombosis and Shock

Chapter 5 – Genetic Disorders

Chapter 6 – Diseases of the Immune System

Chapter 7 – Neoplasia

Chapter 8 – Infectious Diseases

Chapter 9 – Environmental and Nutritional Diseases

Chapter 10 – Diseases of Infancy and Childhood

Systemic Pathology

Chapter 11 – Blood Vessels | Blood Vessels Continued

Chapter 12 – The Heart | Part 2 | Part 3

Chapter 13 – Red Blood Cell and Bleeding Disorders

Chapter 14 – Diseases of White Blood Cells, Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Thymus | Part 2

Chapter 15 – The Lung | Lung-Continued & Labs

Chapter 16 – Head and Neck

Chapter 17 – The Gastrointestinal Tract | GI continued & Labs

Chapter 18 – Liver and Biliary Tract

Chapter 19 – The Pancreas

Chapter 20 – The Kidney

Chapter 21 – The Lower Urinary Tract and Male Genital System

Chapter 22 – The Female Genital Tract

Chapter 23 – The Breast

Chapter 24 – The Endocrine System | Diabetes-and-Labs

Chapter 25 – The Skin

Chapter 26 – Bones, Joints, and Soft Tissue Tumors | Bone Continued

Chapter 27 – Peripheral Nerve and Skeletal Muscle

Chapter 28 – The Central Nervous System | CNS-continuation

Chapter 29 – The Eye

Requested Ebooks : Biochemistry- Devlin, Baynes, Endocrinology- Greenspan, Williams, Kandel Neural Science

2012-04-22T11:18:00.000+05:30

These ebooks were requested by our reader "Miftha_l Dani".

Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations

Edition : 4th Edition
Author(s) : Thomas M. Devlin
Size : 45 MB
Format : .pdf
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Medical Biochemistry

Edition : 2nd Edition
Author(s) : John W. Baynes , Marek H. Dominiczak
Size : 43 MB
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Greenspan's Basic and Clinical Endocrinology

Edition : 9th Edition
Author(s) : David Gardner , Dolores Shoback
Size : 24 MB
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Williams Textbook of Endocrinology

Edition : 12th Edition
Author(s) : P. Reed Larsen , Henry M. Kronenberg , Shlomo Melmed , Kenneth S. Polonsky , Jean D. Wilson , Henry M. Kronenberg , Daniel W. Foster
Size : 45 MB
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Principles of Neural Science

Edition : 9th Edition
Author(s) : Eric Kandel, James Schwartz, Thomas Jessell
Size : 66 MB
Format : .pdf
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Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th Edition - Download (PDF and CHM)

2012-04-21T10:52:00.001+05:30

This book needs no introduction. Every medical student knows about Harrison's (atleast those who have reached clinical sciences). It is probably the most famous of all medical books. One thing that immediately strikes a person when he sees the book is its "thickness". When I first saw it, I was like "Gosh, that's one big book." The book is thick, with lots of pages, the text is small, there's no gap between chapters and there's no blank space at all! It is enough for a student to have a heart-attack when you inform him "Dude, that's just Volume-I, there's one more volume of the same size!"

Times have changed and so should our approach. One should use a covenient way if available. An e-book of Harrison's would be an excellent example of how technology can makes things so convenient. You can carry it on your laptop, tablet or even mobile without any additional load at all. Regarding the contents of the book or it's usefulness, I can't comment because I haven't reached the clinical phase of my course yet.

This is the new 18th edition that was released in July 2011. You can download it in both chm and pdf formats. I recommend chm as it is better and more convenient once you get used to it. I've also mentioned that applications on iOS and Android that can run chm files. Feel free to comment if you face any problem.

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About the Book:

Name of Book : Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
Edition : 18th Edition
Author(s) : Dan L. Longo, Anthony S. Fauci, Dennis L. Kasper, Stephen L. Hauser, J. Larry Jameson, Joseph Loscalzo

Download in .chm format (Recommended)

Download Format : .ZIP Archive
Actual Format : .chm (No additional software required)
Size : 180 MB
Instructions : Right-click the .zip file and select "Extract".

How to open it on your Mac OS X or phone/tablet:
For Mac OS X, install Chmox (Download it from here)
For Android, install CHM Reader X (Download .apk file / Play Store Link)
For iPhone/iPad, install iCHM (Download .ipa file / iTunes Store Link)

Download in .pdf format

Format : .pdf (Open using Adobe Reader)
Size : 220 MB
Note: This has been converted from the chm format, use this only if you can't open the chm format on your device.

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Netter's Atlas of Embryology - Download (PDF)

2012-03-15T22:27:00.000+05:30

Embryology is a slightly complex subject and it requires a lot of visualisation. This atlas, just like the atlas of gross anatomy, is full of beautiful drawings that help make the subject a lot easier. It has step by step 3D diagrams of many complex processes that occur during development. It is definitely a very good aid for understanding Embryology.

This is actually a collection of images from "Netter Presenter" made into a pdf by me. You can navigate the book easily using bookmarks and the text is also fully searchable. You can preview the book from the screenshots below and download it through the link given at the end.

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Name of Book : Netter's Atlas of Embryology
Author(s) : Larry Cochard
Download Format: .zip (Right-click and select "Extract")
Actual Format : .pdf (Open using Adobe Reader)
Size : 25 MB
Instructions: Right-click the download link and select "Save Link As"

Download:

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Acland Anatomy - Internal Organs (Watch Online / Download)

2012-02-25T16:40:00.000+05:30

Here is Volume 6 of this series- Internal Organs. The videos are split into parts for the convenience of watching. You can watch it online (streaming) or download the videos and watch it later (the quality of downloaded file will be better).You can find links to other volumes and a few extras at the end.

1. Heart

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2. Lungs

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3. GI Tract

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4. Liver, Pancreas and Spleen

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5. Blood Vessels of the Abdomen

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6. Urinary System

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7. Male Reproductive System

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8. Female Reproductive System

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Some useful extras

Here are the links for trancripts of all the volumes. These are pdf files. You can save them by pressing Ctrl + S.

Vol 1 - Upper Extremity Transcript

Vol 2 - Lower Extremity Transcript

Vol 3 - Trunk Transcript

Vol 4 - Head and Neck Part 1 Extremity Transcript

Vol 5 - Head and Neck Part 2 Transcript

Vol 6 - Internal Organs Transcript

Table of Contents and Master Index

Table of Contents. It has divided the videos into even smaller parts and given the starting and ending times.

Master Index. This is an alphabetical index of all parts you can find in these videos similar to indexes given at the end of books.

More information about this Atlas

How the Atlas was made

Unique Features

How To Order

Acland Anatomy - Lower Extremity (Watch Online / Download)

2012-02-22T23:52:00.000+05:30

Here is Volume 2 of this series- The Lower Extremity. The videos are split into parts for the convenience of watching. You can watch it online (streaming) or download the videos and watch it later (the quality of downloaded file will be better). You can find links to other volumes at the end.

1. The Hip

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2. The Knee

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3. The Leg and Ankle

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4. The Foot

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Some useful extras

Here are the links for trancripts of all the volumes. These are pdf files. You can save them by pressing Ctrl + S.

Vol 1 - Upper Extremity Transcript

Vol 2 - Lower Extremity Transcript

Vol 3 - Trunk Transcript

Vol 4 - Head and Neck Part 1 Extremity Transcript

Vol 5 - Head and Neck Part 2 Transcript

Vol 6 - Internal Organs Transcript

Table of Contents and Master Index

Table of Contents. It has divided the videos into even smaller parts and given the starting and ending times.

Master Index. This is an alphabetical index of all parts you can find in these videos similar to indexes given at the end of books.

More information about this Atlas

How the Atlas was made

Unique Features

How To Order

Acland Anatomy - Upper Extremity (Watch Online / Download)

2012-02-22T19:19:00.000+05:30

Here is Volume 1 of this series- The Upper Extremity. If you download this from other places on the internet you'll find that the audio and video are out of sync. I have corrected the sync in these videos (It took a little effort but it was worth it).

The videos are split into parts for the convenience of watching. You can watch it online (streaming) or download the videos and watch it later (the quality of downloaded file will be better)

1. The Shoulder Region

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2. The Arm and Forearm

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3. The Hand

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Some useful extras

Here are the links for trancripts of all the volumes. These are pdf files. You can save them by pressing Ctrl + S.

Vol 1 - Upper Extremity Transcript

Vol 2 - Lower Extremity Transcript

Vol 3 - Trunk Transcript

Vol 4 - Head and Neck Part 1 Extremity Transcript

Vol 5 - Head and Neck Part 2 Transcript

Vol 6 - Internal Organs Transcript

Table of Contents and Master Index

Table of Contents. It has divided the videos into even smaller parts and given the starting and ending times.

Master Index. This is an alphabetical index of all parts you can find in these videos similar to indexes given at the end of books.

More information about this Atlas

How the Atlas was made

Unique Features

How To Order

Acland Anatomy - The Trunk (Watch Online / Download)

2012-02-21T12:14:00.001+05:30

Here is Volume 3 of this series- The Trunk. I have split the videos into parts for the convenience of watching. You can watch it online (streaming) or download the videos and watch it later (the quality of downloaded file will be better). You can find links to other volumes at the end.

1. The Spine

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2. The Thorax

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3. The Abdomen

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4. The Pelvis

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Watch the other parts:

Some useful extras

Here are the links for trancripts of all the volumes. These are pdf files. You can save them by pressing Ctrl + S.

Vol 1 - Upper Extremity Transcript

Vol 2 - Lower Extremity Transcript

Vol 3 - Trunk Transcript

Vol 4 - Head and Neck Part 1 Extremity Transcript

Vol 5 - Head and Neck Part 2 Transcript

Vol 6 - Internal Organs Transcript

Table of Contents and Master Index

Table of Contents. It has divided the videos into even smaller parts and given the starting and ending times.

Master Index. This is an alphabetical index of all parts you can find in these videos similar to indexes given at the end of books.

More information about this Atlas

How the Atlas was made

Unique Features

How To Order

Acland Anatomy - Head and Neck Part 2 (Watch Online / Download)

2012-02-20T22:50:00.000+05:30

Here is Volume 5 of this series- Head and Neck - Part 2. The videos are split into parts for the convenience of watching. You can watch it online (streaming) or download the videos and watch it later (the quality of downloaded file will be better). You can find links to other volumes at the end.

1. Facial Muscles and Scalp

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2. Brain and it's Surroundings

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3. Cranial Nerves

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4. Blood Vessels of Head and Neck

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5. The Eye

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6. The Ear

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Watch the other parts:

Some useful extras

Here are the links for trancripts of all the volumes. These are pdf files. You can save them by pressing Ctrl + S.

Vol 1 - Upper Extremity Transcript

Vol 2 - Lower Extremity Transcript

Vol 3 - Trunk Transcript

Vol 4 - Head and Neck Part 1 Extremity Transcript

Vol 5 - Head and Neck Part 2 Transcript

Vol 6 - Internal Organs Transcript

Table of Contents and Master Index

Table of Contents. It has divided the videos into even smaller parts and given the starting and ending times.

Master Index. This is an alphabetical index of all parts you can find in these videos similar to indexes given at the end of books.

More information about this Atlas

How the Atlas was made

Unique Features

How To Order

Acland Anatomy - Head and Neck Part 1 (Watch Online / Download)

2012-02-16T18:26:00.002+05:30

Acland's DVD Atlas of Anatomy is probably the best multimedia resource you can find for human anatomy. It describes anatomy in real freshly dissected specimen, giving a very good understanding of the structure. The method of explanation is also very good. It is not too complex to be understood nor too basic.

I have split the videos into parts for the convenience of watching. You can watch it online (streaming) or download the videos and watch it later (the quality of downloaded file will be better). We have started with Head and Neck as the anatomy of this region is relatively complex and therefore, these videos might make it a little easier in understanding it.

1. The Skull

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2. Facial Skeleton and Cranial Base

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3. The Nasal Cavity

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4. The Oral Cavity

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5. The Larynx

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Watch the other parts:

Some useful extras

Transcript (similar to subtitles) This the the text of what is spoken in the videos (a little bit like subtitles). This may be very useful if English is not your primary language (like me) as there are many times you don't understand words that are spoken.
Here are the links for trancripts of all the volumes. These are pdf files. You can save them by pressing Ctrl + S.

Vol 1 - Upper Extremity Transcript

Vol 2 - Lower Extremity Transcript

Vol 3 - Trunk Transcript

Vol 4 - Head and Neck Part 1 Extremity Transcript

Vol 5 - Head and Neck Part 2 Transcript

Vol 6 - Internal Organs Transcript

Table of Contents and Master Index

Table of Contents. It has divided the videos into even smaller parts and given the starting and ending times.

Master Index. This is an alphabetical index of all parts you can find in these videos similar to indexes given at the end of books.

More information about this Atlas

How the Atlas was made

Unique Features

How To Order

KD Tripathi - Essentials of Medical Pharmacology - Download (PDF)

2012-02-11T01:04:00.000+05:30

This is a very popular book followed by most of the students in India. I've heard that it's good but haven't read it myself yet. Incidentally, it is the only Indian book for which I've found as an ebook. In this pdf, I've corrected the page numbers, cropped the pages and added bookmarks and it is very likely that you will never find this pdf anywhere else on the internet.

You can preview the book from the screenshots below and download it through the link given at the end.

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Download Details:

Name of Book : Essentials of Medical Pharmacology
Edition : 6th edition
Author(s) : K. D. Tripathi
Format : .pdf (Open using Adobe Reader)
Size : 60 MB

Download:

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How to activate/crack Stedman Medical Dictionary version 7

2012-02-10T12:10:00.001+05:30

I'm afraid this post is only for the advanced users. I don't have much time for a detailed post. I've posted Stedman version 6 on this blog. There is a newer version 7 but it requires you to activate it using a key that can be got only by buying that product.

I've figured out a way to bypass it. Just go to the folder where the version 7 is installed and replace the "semdrs30.dll" file with this one.

Click Here to download the new "semdrs30.dll"

If you don't have version 7 downloaded, the click here to see the download links.

Now the dictionary will open without asking for activation. The only problem is that it shows the splash screen of version 6 but the actual dictionary is version 7 which you can see from the number of words and other features too.

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Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, 5th Edition - Download (PDF)

2012-02-09T12:39:00.000+05:30

This book was requested by one of our readers. It is a pdf which is an exact copy of the original book.

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Name of Book : Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry
Edition : 5th Edition
Author(s) : David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox
Format : .pdf (Open using Adobe Reader)
Size : 179 MB

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Robbins Pathology, 8th Edition - Download (PDF and CHM)

2012-01-31T09:38:00.000+05:30

This is one of the most popular of all medical textbooks. Almost all medical students use it at some point of time or the other. It is known for its simple at the same time in-depth explanation of the subject. It has a lot of beautiful diagrams and specimen photographs.

This time we have this book in two formats- CHM and PDF. The pdf version is one that has been converted from chm so it does not look perfect and has some problems like oversized images etc. but it is usable. Therefore I recommend that if you want this book on a computer or a laptop then it would be better if you download the chm format as it is it's original format and is quite useful and easy to use. Use the pdf format only for mobile devices like phones/tablets which do not have the support to open chm files. I've kept the page size in the pdf a little bit small so that viewing on a smaller screen is easy. Sorry for the huge size of the pdf (103 MB), I tried to reduce the size using Adobe Acrobat but my slow computer couldn't take the load of compressing a 2000-odd page pdf :(

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About the Book:

Name of Book : Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease
Edition : 8th Edition
Author(s) : Vinay Kumar, Abul K. Abbas, Ramzi S. Cotran, Nelson Fausto

Download in chm format (Recommended)

Download Format : .ZIP Archive
Actual Format : .chm (No additional software required)
Size : 62 MB
Instructions : Right-click the .zip file and select "Extract".

How to open it on your Mac OS X or phone/tablet:
For Mac OS X, install Chmox (Download it from here)
For Android, install CHM Reader X (Download .apk file / Play Store Link)
For iPhone/iPad, install iCHM (Download .ipa file / iTunes Store Link)

Download in pdf format

Format : .pdf (Open using Adobe Reader)
Size : 103 MB
Note: This has been converted from the chm format, use this only if you can't open the chm format on your device.

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ADAM Interactive Anatomy 3.0 - Download

2012-01-24T18:11:00.001+05:30

Technology has helped make every aspect of our life easy. But sadly, the only purpose for which it is widely used is entertainment (videos games, internet, cinema etc.). Many people fail to realise that when we can use technology for entertainment then why not for education? Western countries have started making full use of technology for the purpose of education but countries like India are far behind. We have to realise that as the level of human knowledge increases, its complexity increases and we have to devise new methods to make it easy for us to gain to learn such complex things.

Anatomy is a subject which is generally perceived to be difficult and complex. This calls for a change in our method of studying. Simple reading of books won't do. Through the years, people have devised other methods to study like dissection, atlases, models etc, bit it does not mean we can try no further.

I had always been looking for a virtual alternative to dissection in anatomy. After searching wide and far, I came across a few application/websites that can do this job. ADAM Interactive Anatomy is one such application. Though the application is a bit difficult to use, I liked it quite a lot because of its beautiful graphics. It looks like an old application but the visuals in it look much more beautiful than even the modern 3D anatomy simulators. A.D.A.M. Interactive Anatomy is a very useful tool if used properly. The best part of it is the dissectible anatomy where a kind of dissection is simulated. This can be very useful considering that most students fail to utilise dissection to the maximum because of various reasons (cramming of students around the cadaver, improperly embalmed specimen, fragility of structures like nerves etc.). This software , I think, is not very easy to use, but with some effort if one learns it then it may be very rewarding.

To make it a little easier for others to earn how to use this application, I have created this video tutorial showing some of the features. It's a long video but I've tried to cover all its features and that too in such a manner that even those who are not "that good at computer stuff" can understand and use it. If you have any questions or problems then feel free to comment :)

Preview and How to Install

Download details:

Name : ADAM Interactive Anatomy 3.0
Download Format : .iso
Size : 509 MB
Instructions : Mount the ISO image using a mounting software (eg. Win CD Emu). For details look in the video above.

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Lauralee Sherwood's Human Physiology from Cells to Systems - Download (PDF)

2012-01-13T22:46:00.002+05:30

This book was requested by one of our readers. It looks like a good book, it's a pdf which is an exact copy of the original book. Note that some pages donot show up, I tried to get a perfectly working ebook but this is the only format available on the internet for now.

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Name of Book : Human Physiology from Cells to Systems
Edition : 7th Edition
Author(s) : Lauralee Sherwood
Download Format : .ZIP Archive
Actual Format : .pdf (Open using Adobe Reader)
Size : 62 MB
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Which tablet to buy?

2011-11-26T22:49:00.000+05:30

Okay, so let me get this clear first- drug tablets aren't the only tablets medical people can talk about. ;)

Tablet computers are what everyone is talking about these days. In fact, there's quite an amount of confusion whether to call these "computers" or just treat there like giant smartphones. Not just this, there's confusion about a lot of things. How is a tablet different from a computer, or from a phone? Of what use can it be? Whether to buy one or not? If buying, then which one to buy?

Well, my personal opinion in this is that a tablet is the real portable computer. Laptops and notebooks are just a joke. 60% of laptops never leave home, according to a survey. I've never fancied laptops any time. They are not as portable as they claim to be. Their name itself is so misleading- you can never keep these on your lap without feeling uncomfortable. I think the only reason people buy these is because it looks stylish and nonetheless offers marginally more portability than a PC.

These days, smartphones do almost all the jobs a basic computer can do. The only problem is their small size. Even the present 4 inch phones aren't very effective when trying to perform full fledged tasks usually done on a computer. Tablets precisely solve this problem. A big screen combined with touch input, what else does one need?

Which among so many?

These days, nearly 2 years after the release of the first tablet, the market is flooded with tablets. But these can easily be classified into three- the iPad (the single-most successful tablet), Android tablets (catching up, but slowly) and other smaller ones like Blackberry, HP, Windows 7 etc. So our job is to make a choice among these. Here is my choice.

Why not iPad?

First thing, hard and fast, Apple products are overpriced. They do offer quality but you'll usually get the same quality at a lower rate. What's more, even after buying an expensive tablet, you have to buy apps too, the good ones won't come free. Even pirated ones are quite rare (just telling, you see ;) ) Apple is a luxury brand, that's it. But talking of the tablet as a product, it is just like any other Apple product, it just works, and works well.

Why not Android?

I would have preferred Android over iPad. There are many reasons for it- wide range of tablets with different prices and features, fast growth of Android, it being open source, a lot of free content being available etc. But again this is not my final choice. There are many drawbacks with Android too. I would say it's still in an early stage. It is updated so often that even if you buy a new version it'll soon become old within a few months. And the versions are presently a complete mess. There are tablets running Android 2.2 and 2.3 as well as Honeycomb 3.0 (especially designed for tablets). A new version 4.0 Ice-cream Sandwich is going to be released soon. A lot of products won't be updated including some high end ones like the HTC Flyer. With every update, completely new features are added, this and many other things say that this whole tablet market is still new and under development. It will take a while to stabilise.

Why not Blackberry/ HP?

Do I even need to talk about these? Blackberry and HP are undoubtedly flop. Windows 7 too because you don't get the fun of touch interface on it.

Huh, not all these, then what??

I've ruled out every single tablet present in the market at present. So what am I talking about? Yes, to buy the best tablet, we need to wait. And the perfect tablet according to my views is that which is gonna run Windows 8.

Microsoft may not be very good at innovation but they surely are good at improvisation. Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 are extremely good products, though they took time to arrive. The same I think will be the case with Windows 8 (it's just a codename by the way, the actual name may be different).

Windows 8 is going to do two things- bring touch interface to PCs and bring Windows experience to tablets. It has been designed for both touch interface and conventional keyboard and mouse input. It's surely going to be the best Windows ever, with it's countless new features. The best thing I like about it is that it will support the running of older applications, just like Windows 7. This will make the number of applications available for your tablet even more that on iOS or Android.

The bone of contention is that it's not gonna be released soon. The plans are to release it nowhere before the first half of 2012. The developer preview has been released already for free and a whole lot of people have downloaded it and are using it and developing applications for it. Since the development seems to be going on at such a fast pace, we can only hope that Microsoft considers releasing it earlier. Till then the only option we have is to wait. I'm sure it will be something worth waiting for.

A new beginning

2011-11-24T09:17:00.000+05:30

Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.
- George Patton

Two kinds of people are reading this post- those who have no idea why this is a new beginning (didn't know about this blog earlier) and those who do ;-). For the second kind of people, here is the explanation.

As you know this blog first started on Wordpress, but only later I came to realise it's limitations. It was easy to use and I particularly fell in love with the theme I was using, but it had to go. One month and 2 days back, the blog was deleted by Wordpress without any warning as I apparently didn't follow their terms and conditions. They could have deleted only the objectionable stuff but no. It's as if every single word I wrote violated their agreement. The backup they offered contained only text of the previous posts. All my images were lost. That's why it took a little while to reconstruct this. But honestly speaking, this had to happen one day and it's a change for the better. Blogger (Blogspot) is the right thing for me. It's as customisable as a geek like me could wish for. The only thing I had to compromise with was the theme, I tried a lot to get the same theme that I used on Wordpress to work here but the results weren't too good. So this theme that you see is the best I could find. Dark background with light text is something that I wouldn't have preferred if I had the choice, but I hope you guys like it.

Now for both kinds of people reading this post- I've come up with quite a few ideas during this month and am quite excited about those. Some of these involve making the medical ebooks readable on phones and tablets by posting them as converted pdfs as well as in the .mobi format for Kindle and old Symbian phones. I've personally tried whatever I could and it works well. Other ideas are about medical animations and also a lot of ideas for articles. So do keep following us!

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Rohen's Photographic Atlas of Anatomy - Download

2011-10-22T13:14:00.000+05:30

This atlas is unique in that it contains real photos of specimen instead of drawings. The quality of specimen is also quite good. These are supplemented with easy to understand diagrams.

Since this atlas is a little tricky to use, I've given these screen-shots as a guide.

Download Details:

Name of Book :Colour Atlas of Anatomy : A Photographic Study of the Human Body
Edition : 4th Edition
Author(s) : Johannes W. Rohen, ChihiroYokochi, Elke Lutjen-Dracoll
Format : .iso
Size : 374 MB
Instructions : Mount the CD image using animage mounting application like WinCDEmu.

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Lippincott's Pharmacology - Download

2011-10-21T20:09:00.000+05:30

This is another book of the series Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews. Like other books in the series, most of the information is presented graphically, which may not be very useful if using this book as a textbook, but might be very effective if using it as a review.

You can see how the e-book is from the screenshots and download it from the link given below.

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Name of Book : Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews - Pharmacology
Edition : 4th Edition
Author(s) : Mary J. Mycek, Richard A. Harvey , Pamela C. Champe
Download Format : .ZIP Archive
Actual Format : .chm (No additional software required to open)
Size : 89 MB
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Snell's Clinical Anatomy by Regions - Download

2011-10-19T23:32:00.000+05:30

This is another standard anatomy textbook followed by many students. In this book, every chapter starts with a clinical case and apparently, a lot of focus is given on "clinical application". The diagrams are rough and look like hand-drawn but that can also be called simple. A few applied questions are given at the end of each chapter.

You can preview the book from the screenshots below and download it through the link given at the end.

(P.S.- I tried to find a PDF version of this book but found only for the other book "Clinical Anatomy by Systems" that won't be of much use)

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Name of Book : Clinical Anatomy by Regions
Edition : Eighth edition (January 30, 2007)
Author(s) : Richard S. Snell
Download Format : .ZIP Archive
Actual Format : .chm (No additional software required to open)
Size : 225 MB
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Terms, Terms and Terms

2011-10-11T19:50:00.000+05:30

Abductor pollicis longus
Extensor pollicis brevis
Talocalcaneonavicular joint
Substantia gelatinosa Rolandii
Corticopontocerebellar pathway
Tubuloglomerular feedback
Slow reacting substance of Anaphylaxis
Protoporphyrinogen-III
1, 25-dihydroxycholecalciferol

These terms have nothing in common, but are capable of producing the same effect- terms like these can make even the brightest of students think-"Did I make the right choice in choosing MBBS?" Being introduced to these terms adds to the horror of a new student who is already bewildered by the strange new college environment.

It is a source of wonder for non-medical people how we can say and remember such difficult names. It is true that this ability is something worth admiring, but it usually is not achieved easily. There are many ways in which a student copes with this problem. One that happens with everyone inevitably over time is that they get "used to" it. It is wonderful how many difficult situations man can adapt to. Over time, each new term causes slightly less fear than the previous one and over some time he gets literally immune to it. It takes quite a while till his sub-conscious also realises that it's no big deal, these terms are not as big problems as he once thought they were. In fact we get used to these technical terms so much that we even start using them in our daily lives, even at times when they are not at all needed, for instance, asking each other- "Hey, how to study? Retrograde or anterograde?" or saying "The whole of my peroneal compartment is paining after that match" or even a student saying to the other a few hours before examination "Hey dude! I'm feeling palpitation!”

One also realises over the course of time that the usage of terms is inevitable. We just can't do without these technical terms. It only for this reason that their use was started in the first place and still continues. One can't use words from common language for everything. If that was the case, then a psychiatrist would be using only one word - mad! For many things we want to refer, words don't exist in common language. One also realises that the good old Greek and Latin names are simply the best names that could have been. These names are also quite intuitive when one learns how they have been derived. Knowing the derivations can make things very easy. One can easily learn quite a bit of Greek and Latin from seeing the derivations of these terms alone. For example the word "pons", meaning "bridge", for that part of the brain is quite apt as it looks just like a bridge and more or less functions like one. The modern trend is to keep English names but their use has also caused a little inconvenience in that they are usually too long and unwieldy. For example, "growth hormone" for somatotropin looks okay but "growth hormone releasing hormone" or "growth hormone inhibiting hormone" look rather unwieldy when compared to "somatocrinin" and "somatostatin". One can also use abbreviations but they are simply not intuitive and look like a meaningless bunch of letters.

At the same time it is not necessary that one shouldn't try to do something and blindly memorise things even which he finds very difficult. One can always make an effort and try to make it easy. Sometimes we can dispose off unnecessary Greek and Latin and make things surprisingly easy, like the margo obtutus of the heart can be called the obtuse margin and the incisura angularis of the stomach can be called angular notch or arteria pancreatica magna as great artery of pancreas. These are commonly found in Western textbooks and atlases but have not yet entered much into books by Indian authors.

There is another category of terms, terms like-

Parkinson's disease
Tetrology of Fallot
Fascia of denon Villiers
Hepatopancreatic ampulla of Vater
Korotkoff's sounds
Lobry–de Bruyn–van Ekenstein isomerisation
Queckenstedt's test

These terms actually called "eponyms" but commonly known as "named" things are a real nightmare for students. There seems to be no way around these. There was a highly successful ad campaign by some company - "The name is enough". So successful in fact that all the teachers seem to be following it. If one knows the name then it is assumed that the student knows completely about it. However, the names are important as confusion between two will completely change the disease! One should also realise that these too are not bad names. Since a disease has more than one symptom, calling it by one symptom will leave a totally incomplete picture. Instead if one creates a picture of all the symptoms and gives it a single name, it may help in a more intuitive understanding. The same may be applied to the name of a special anatomical structure or a set of chemical reactions. Also it is not required that we remember a lot of such names, remembering only a few common or significant ones will do.

It is more because of these terms than the actual subject that makes the science we study look rather complicated. But even if a slight effort is made, things can become surprisingly easy. In the end, we all need to follow what is being strongly advocated in the ads of Tata Docomo- the principle of KISS- Keep it Simple, Stupid!

[ This article will also be found in my college magazine - Insignia 2011, but here it is in it's original form without all the undesirable editing they have done :) ]

iCame, iSaw, iConquered: Steve Jobs

2011-10-07T06:22:00.000+05:30

You might be wondering what is Steve Jobs doing in a blog that revolves around Medicine and such things. One reason is that personally I happen to be greatly inspired by this man and another more important reason is that we're not gonna talk much about computers and gadgets here but about the kind of person he was, how he was different and how he made a difference to the world.

Steve Jobs for Dummies

First let's get a little idea about the achievements of Steve Jobs. You'll find many websites that list his achievements but here I'll try to write such that people who don't know much about computers can also appreciate it.

1. Founded Apple

Apple Inc. is richer than the government of USA. The company doesn't need any introduction. It is the personification of "brand following". Millions of people buy their products simply because "Hey, it's an Apple product." This image was not formed overnight. No one had more job in this than Steve Jobs.

2. Invented the Computer*

Though this is gross exaggeration, it is almost as if he did it. Computers before him were just big IBM machines used only professionally in big institutions. It can be said that he played "the" major role in making the computer a "personal computer" (though he never used that name and this name became famous as a rival to his Macintosh)

3. Founded Pixar Animation Studios

These people make a lot of animated movies we enjoy.

4. iPod

There were portable music players earlier but they weren't good enough. It wasn't a runaway success and people started criticising him, but soon they knew that it was after all Steve Jobs, we all know whether any other music player is as popular as the iPod.

5. Invented the touch-screen smartphone*

This too is exaggeration, there were touch-screen phones and also smartphones earlier but they were as good as not being there at all. The day he announced the iPhone, he changed the mobile phone industry.

6. Invented the Tablet PC

This is the perfect example of his innovation. Again he showed the world what was good for them. This product (the iPad) was highly criticised. Everyone said that it was nothing but a giant smartphone. They saw it again. A whole new segment of electronics took birth. While other companies were releasing or just developing their first tablets, Apple was releasing it's second version.

So what's the big deal about him?

Steve Jobs doesn't remind me of a person who toils hard to achieve a bit of success, he reminds me of an artist who took pleasure in his work. He made his customers happy and simply took his money. He thought out of the box, did things people would find ridiculous. He didn't let anything get in his way, he had to leave the very company he founded, he didn't give up complaining but made himself such that the company itself called him back. He not only made new products but made them beautiful. He started the trend in everything like using graphics instead of boring DOS commands, beautiful fonts on computer screens, good looking and colourful computers and laptops. The rivalry between Apple and Microsoft is famous but he didn't let it get in his way. When Apple was at a huge low and he needed to do something, he called up Bill Gates and made a deal with Microsoft.

I personally don't use any Apple product simply because I've never felt the need or been able to afford one. I won't buy one even if I have the money. I know that the brand name adds to the cost and for a geek like me, something that works so easily and effortlessly would be devastatingly boring! But it is the person Steve Jobs was that inspired me so much. His speech at Stanford was one of the best I ever heard, his keynotes can be watched even for the sake of entertainment! And no one will be able to forget his "One more thing..."

Steve Jobs' Medical Condition

Okay, so as this blog is more about medicine, I feel obliged to pay some attention to this aspect too. Though I never knew much about it, after some research I found it quite intriguing. Jobs has not been very open with the media about his health (and rightly so). One funny fact is that a newspaper actually published his obituary when he was alive! It had actually been prepared in advance as there were rumours about his bad health.

In his Stanford speech, Jobs says that he was diagnosed with some "extremely rare form of pancreatic cancer". He was actually speaking about a neuroendocrine cancer of the pancreas. As you know, the pancreas is predominantly exocrine with the endocrine part (Islets of Langerhans) constituting only 2% of the mass of pancreas. Rather than exocrine cancer, for which survival rate is very low and which is the fourth largest killing cancer in the world, Jobs had the cancer of the endocrine part. Cancers of neural or endocrine structures are together called "neuroendocrine" cancers which are mostly benign and constitute only 5% of pancreatic cancer cases (remaining 95% cases being cancer of the exocrine part). He preferred a treatment by alternative medicine in the beginning. Fortunately, the need for chemotherapy or radiation therapy never arose (which have terrible side-effects you know).

In July 2004, Jobs underwent a surgery to remove the cancerous part called "Whipple's procedure" or pancreatico-duodenectomy in which, as the name suggests, the head of pancreas is removed along with the duodenum. The duodenum has to be removed in spite of being so important because the pancreas head and duodenum are supplied by the same gastro-duodenal artery and the removal of only pancreas' head would stop the blood supply to the duodenum and cause its necrosis. After Jobs underwent this procedure, he started to look quite frail which is obvious because the duodenum, in which major part of digestion of food takes place, is lost.

His body may have adapted itself to this as he later became healthy. In April 2009, he had a liver transplant but I can't see any connection of this with his earlier health problems, which makes one suspect alcohol abuse leading to liver damage.

In January 2011, he again took medical leave and then resigned as CEO and passed away "peacefully, surrounded by his family" nine months later. The reason for his death hasn't been explicitly mentioned. From the available hints, one can suspect nothing but a relapse of his cancer.

Legacy

Every soul has to taste death one day, yet a few continue to live in spite of going away. Steve Jobs will not live only in the name of his company and it's products, but also in the minds of many whom he inspired and motivated to follow his footsteps.

As a final tribute, I would like you to watch this video which very fittingly attributes to the life of Steve Jobs, in the mesmerising voice of Carl Segan.

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.