The culmination of a 25-year Essay and Poem Series beginning in 1997, Van Gross, MD of Philadelphia captures the final six years of this four-book journey. Leading off with the revenge packed Van Gross of Monte Cristo that covered 1997-2004, followed by the mega-compilation Five Books of Van Gross’s spanning 2004- 2007 and its acclaimed follow-up Van-Dalismo 2008-2015, Kenneth Bruce Van Gross, M.D. either was to enter the dust bin of history with the ultra-contemporary Van Gross, M.D. of P...

Whether running into other countries or running for their lives across the spectrum of time, these three characters are subversive and totally unpredictable. Join them on their opening adventure! "Great fun, Kenneth Bruce Van Gross!!" - Al Einstein

1997 to 2004 encompassed a very turbulent period for the United States and the world more generally. From the Clinton scandals, the lead up to the Millennium, the Great Loose Chad Presidential Election of 2000 to the planet riveting events of September 2001, there is plenty to pontificate about....and Van Gross, MD certainly does that. But he'll get personal, satirical, educational and wax poetic too. As the U.S. entered overseas wars in the early 2000's, its role in the Mid-East, its inci...

Reawaken, you awoken wokesters and anti-leftist xenophobes, and get your new bible. The Five Books of Van Gross’s focuses hearkens back to the “Middle Aughts” which is the period that included launching weather crusades, being a "birther" or talking nonsense at Townhall Meetings about "healthcare" (which is really medical care plus a gym membership, glasses and teeth cleaning); here was the mid-Decade of the Zeroes or the zeros, or zorro, the fox so cunning and free, that epoch from 2003-2...

This volume represents a collection of essays and other writings from 2008-2015. It formally introduces what must be labeled Van Dalismo, fusing the creative genius of Van Gogh, Los Van Van and Salvador Dali into words (or otherwise just stealing their ideas). Van Gross, MD is the male Sojourner Truth. Whether in Philly, Chile, Cuba or Haiti, whether pondering consciousness, medicine, Jews, Muslims, Blacks, Whites, World Affairs, the Western Hemisphere or some boulevard in Miami, Van Dalis...

After the positive response which followed the first edition of this book 6 years ago, the editors were encouraged to prepare a completely reworked second edition that includes the modern advances in this field. There has been a complete change of diagnostic procedure in the detection of renal tumors, which is now based on sonography, computed tomography, and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, pushing intravenous urography and angiography completely into the background. Also, new methods ...

Mohs surgery is a highly effective treatment for certain cutaneous and oral pharyngeal cancers. The procedure allows for the precise and complete removal of cancers while preserving significant amounts of normal tissue. Through the presentation and orientation of the specimens' complete surgical margin on pathology slides, the location of tumor foci and other relevant findings can be correlated with their locations on the surgical wound. The ability to create perfect slides for histologica...

"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." —Time magazineFrom Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical decision-making, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to ...

The New York Times -bestseller from the star and creative force behind Mr. Show and Arrested Development .After a decade spent in isolation in the Ugandan jungles thinking about stuff, David Cross has written his first book. Known for roles on the small screen such as "never-nude" Tobias Funke on Arrested Development and the ...

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hidden side of medicine and how unexpected—but predictable—events can profoundly affect our health. • Is there ever a good time to have a heart attack? Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running?"Fantastically entertaining and deeply thought-provoking." —Emily Ost...

Bill Maher is on the forefront of the new wave of comedians who influence and shape political debate through their comedy. He is best known not just for being funny, but for advocating truth over sensitivity and taking on the political establishment.Maher first came to national attention as the host of the hit ABC-TV program Politically Incorrect, where he offered a combustible mixture of irreverence and acerbic humor that helped him to garner a loyal following, as well as...

A doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effectiveIn The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience.Warraich, himself a sufferer of chronic pain, considers the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just by science but by politics and power, by whose suff...