Aspiring to be a physician/scientist, and African-American      Aspiring to be a p...      On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency Emily R. Transue St. Martin's Press, 2004 A great snapshot of the terrors and trials of residency + Fantastic! + Honest encounter of residency years + Very good! + Fabulous book!             Discrimination by Default: How Racism Becomes Routine (Critical America Series) Lu-in Wang NYU Press, 2006 An Analysis of a New Reality A law professor's critical analysis of our society's discrimination by default Lu-in Wang contends that the largest share of modern discrimination (in medical care, in certain professions, in media attention to crimes, etc.) is by default and not by design (or ill will). As one example among ...             Retaining African Americans in Higher Education: Challenging Paradigms for Retaining Students, Faculty and ... Stylus Publishing, 2001 Retention of African Americans on campus is a burning issue for the black community, and a moral and financial one for predominantly white institutions of higher education. This book offers fresh insights and new strategies developed by fifteen scholars concerned by the new climate in which affirmative action is being challenged and eliminated. This is the first book devoted specifically to ...             In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health Care Workforce Committee on Institutional and Policy-Level Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the U.S. Healthcare Workforce National Academies Press, 2004 The United States is rapidly transforming into one of the most racially and ethnically diverse nations in the world. Groups commonly referred to as minorities including Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, and Alaska Natives are the fastest growing segments of the population and emerging as the nation's majority. Despite the rapid growth of ...             Blogging For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) Brad Hill For Dummies, 2006 This book has everything you need to begin and work with blogs + Good if you are JUST starting out + Want to Blog Successfully ? Read This Cover to Cover + Thorough and Overwhelming, But Achievable             Life After Medical School: Thirty-Two Doctors Describe How They Shaped Their Medical Careers W. W. Norton & Company, 1996 insightful first-person accounts of careers in medicine + Fascinating but has limits This is a wonderful book for anyone interested in how physicians build their careers. It includes 32 first-person accounts spanning the range from caring for the homeless to becoming CEO of a health care corporation. The profiles are highly personal and give a much-needed glimpse into the factors ...             The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperous Blacks Still Have the Blues? Ellis Cose Harper Perennial, 1995 Makes me wanna holler! Throw up both my hands. + Outstanding book + Jack and Jill + Great Analysis, An Important Read for everyone.             Uses of Blogs (Digital Formations) Peter Lang Publishing, 2006 rise of corporate blogging The attraction of this book is that it goes beyond describing the most common usages of blogs, like for social or political commentary. Bruns and Jacobs explain how blogs have also taken on corporate functionality. Some companies are building "dark" blogs, which are accessible only to its ...             Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry Albert J. 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McGraw-Hill Professional, 2006 sharpen deductive reasoning To doctors and even to nurses, this book can be valuable for the problem solving skills it sharpens in the reader. The chapters comprise case study examples. Puzzles, if you will. Where you could have incomplete knowledge, but continued probing may yield an eventual accurate diagnosis. To ...             Reading Between The Lines: Toward an Understanding of Current Social Problems Amanda Konradi, Martha Schmidt McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2003 Drawing from a wide selection of current research and writings, Reading Between the Lines brings together accessible readings that examine a broad range of social problems and reflect different conceptual approaches. 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