I have lived a wonderful lifeto me at least. Even though, like most people, I have had some setbacks and some negative events, overwhelmingly, I have enjoyed a great life full of all kinds of pleasures -and honors (for which I am extremely grateful). And I am now sharing them with you, my family and my readers, with the hope that you will also enjoy some of them, remembering that with everything you read . . .

Melnick on Writing is a collection of the first ten years of columns published in the American Medical Writers Association Journal under that eponymous title -- forty in total. They represent the authors comments on all phases of writing. The columns range from serious commentaries about grammar and usages, to writings about writing, to humorous commentaries, to managing writers block, to just plain cute thoughts -- most all with medical slants. The columns are all practical and written in...

Your knees are shaking, your throat is dry, and out in front of you in the Lerenbaum Room of the Ramada Inn is the 167th Annual Meeting of the Tucson Dentists Weekend Warrior Organization. You step to the podium, there’s a short crackle of microphone feedback, and all eyes are on you. What do you say? Are you prepared enough? Will your audience love you? Hate you? If these are your fears, put them away and open up Professionally Speaking: Public Speaking for Health Professionals. In it, yo...

Practicing for Practice is a handbook created for resident physicians who are on the threshold of entering practice and in the process of analyzing potential practice sites. The author believes there is sufficient information and enough advisors available on the business aspects, so those are not included. Rather, the emphasis is on the human aspects of choosing a practice and on understanding interpersonal relationships, topics that are extremely important but less frequently recognized b...

Nothing is Risk-Free in Health Care is not a scare book but actually an alert book, calling patients attention to some of the many risks existing in everyones medical careand offering some hints on how to decrease many of those risks. Written in an easy-reading conversational style, he reviews several aspects of medical carephysicians, pharmacists, surgery, mental health, hospitals and those risks people create for themselves. Throughout it all, he stresses the importance of the patients c...

Looking Backat SECOM is the culmination of a long series of human interest columns with that title by Dr. Melnick, published in the schools magazine COM Outlook. In addition, Dr. Melnick has added some personal insights about why and how this osteopathic medical school came about. And he presents some views of the earliest days of its founding. A major portion of this work is the re-publishing of those original columns, and he has added a brief overview of the eventual transition into toda...

GIVING YOUR CHILD MEDICATIONSAFELY is best described by its sub-title: A practical handbook for parents. For that is what it is. It is practical, written in a conversational style, without medical jargon or heavy scientific terms. It is a handbook -- a volume to be referred to whenever there is any questions about medication or your child: what the prescription is, how to administer it, how to position the child most effectively without too much trauma, and even a discussion of the psychol...

Osteopathic Tales is a collection of actual incidents that help paint a picture of osteopathic practice and progress over a period of 70 years. Viewing them gives the reader a moving-picture experience as the profession marched along in its progress forward. Through anecdotes, it traces osteopathic medicine's move from obscurity, rejection and isolation to widespread acceptance and recognition -- not only from the public and from federal, state and local governmental agencies but also in m...