Author: Vijay P. Khatri
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: clinical, scenarios, series, surgery, surgical, oncology
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2005-09-13
List price: $102.00
ISBN-10: 0781754666
ISBN-13: 9780781754668

This unique case-based review of surgical oncology offers excellent preparation for oral board examinations, which emphasize both general knowledge and case management. The book presents 91 cases structured to reflect the surgeon’s decision-making process. Each case begins with a patient presentation and imaging studies or pathology results and proceeds through a series of decision points—differential diagnosis, requests for additional tests, diagnosis, surgical approach, discussion of potential pitfalls, and follow-up. Cases are grouped by organ system and each section ends with a tre

Authors:Robert Kalimi, L. Penfield Faber,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilki
Keywords: clinical, surgery, scenarios, series, approach, case, thoracic, study
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 078174797X
ISBN-13: 9780781747974

North Shore Univ. Hospital, Manhasset, NY. Cased-based review discusses the surgeon’s decision-making process in thoracic surgery. Addresses what tests are needed for each case, how to interpret the results, and details proven surgical procedures. Abundant illustrations. DNLM: Thoracic Surgical Procedures--methods--Case Reports.

Authors:Gilbert R Upchurch, Peter K Henke,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: surgery, clinical, scenarios, series, vascular
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0781752620
ISBN-13: 9780781752626

This unique case-based review of vascular surgery offers excellent preparation for oral board examinations, which emphasize both general knowledge and case management. The book presents 76 cases covering the range of vascular disorders that surgeons treat and is structured to reflect the surgeon’s decision-making process. Each case begins with a patient presentation and imaging studies or pathology results and proceeds through a series of decision points, including differential diagnosis, requests for additional tests, diagnosis, surgical approach, discussion of potential pitfalls, and f

Author: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: scenarios, ecosystem, millennium, assessment, series, group, working, human, volume, findings, ecosystems
Number of Pages: 596
Published: 2005-12-14
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1559633913
ISBN-13: 9781559633918

Scenarios are an invaluable tool for analyzing complex systems and understanding possible outcomes. This second volume of the MA series explores the implications of four different approaches for managing ecosystem services in the face of growing human demand for them:The Global Orchestration approach, in which we emphasize equity, economic growth, and public goods, reacting to ecosystem problems when they reach critical stages.Order from Strength, which emphasizes security and economic growth.Adapting Mosaic, which emphasizes proactive management of ecosystems, local adaptation, and flexible

Author: adcgordon
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: hawaii, scenarios
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2010-02-03
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 1449060188
ISBN-13: 9781449060183

There are two scenarios in which love is looked upon as taboo, unreal, a farce in the world of relationships. Those scenarios are the world of teenagers, and the star-crossed realm of Hollywood. When they met, Anessa Anne Hart was a 15 year old girl with caramel-colored skin, milk chocolate eyes and wavy ebony hair, a more than determined actress. Zachary David Alexander was the dedicated young actor decorated with dirty blond-hair, blue eyes and a near-constant smile that was being perfected by the braces in his 16 year old mouth. Was it fate

Author: Kees van der Heijde
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: conversation, strategic, art, scenarios
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2005-01-18
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0470023686
ISBN-13: 9780470023686

Scenario planning allows companies to move away from linear thinking and better understand external change. Eight years (and 30,000 copies) after publication Scenarios is still acknowledged as the definitive work in the field. Now, Kees van der Heijden brings his bestseller up to date, following up on his original case studies and adding significant new material. The Second Edition changes focus slightly by providing more in-depth analysis and application of the concept of the ’strategic conversation’. While maintaining the underlying rigour of the first edition, van der Heijden re

Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: scenarios, case, worst
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-05-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0674032519
ISBN-13: 9780674032514

Listen to a short interview with Cass Sunstein Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. How can we steer a path between willful inaction and reckless overreaction? Cass Sunstein explores these and other worst-case scenarios and how we might best prevent them in this vivid, illuminating, and highly original analysis. Singling out the problems of terrorism and