Medical Science

General Basics

• Basic Preventative Health Habits NHS Live Well
• Drugs.com Drugs.com
• Red Cross - Highly highly recommended to take First Aid and CPR courses from this yearly. It's not something you regret learning.
• How to use an Epi-Pen When I got my CPR training they did not teach how to use one of these, so it’s worth it to watch the 4:24 minute video. Blue to the sky, orange to the thigh.

More advanced topics in medicine

Links

• Christopher Reeve Foundation Not your average charity. Has helpful information for comfortable aging, disability of any sort, chronic pain or illness, veterans issues, paralysis, and way more. The website is honeycombed with so much useful stuff that it's pretty impressive. There's stuff summarized here that took me ten years to find.
• NHS information archives
• NHS Prescription and OTC Drugs Archives
• Drugs.com Prescription and OTC Drugs Info and Reviews
• Explanation of lab tests in the UK
• Explanations of what medicines are safe in pregnancy and not, from a UK perspective
• Pubmed Central
• Bioxriv
• American Academy of Dermatology

Books

• Gray's Basic Anatomy by Drake, Vogl, and Mitchell
• Anatomy by Frank Netter
• Harrison’s Guide to Internal Medicine
• The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, physician edition
• Mosby’s Medical Dictionary
• Healing through Trigger Point Therapy by Devin Starlanyl and John Sharkey - because learning this method of massage might reduce chronic pain of various sorts and over-reliance on NSAIDs can wreck your body. Use caution and if in doubt ask your doctor. Unless you are a doctor.
• Massage by Clare Maxwell-Hudson - for stress relief. I grew up using this one. It's wonderful.

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