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
• Many, many years ago, when I was first dealing with symptoms of neurological Lyme disease, I found the Isabel symptom checker online. Its premise was that it was named for a little girl who got misdiagnosed at a hospital and sadly passed away edit 1/2/26 Whoa! She lived! The original website wasn't clear about that!. Apparently the people who made the website understood that differential diagnosis and remembering all of the different possibilities is a lot less difficult for a computer to remember and to flag disease symptoms with than a human mind - and as I understand it, the site was always intended as a second opinion to help a doctor make a better, more informed decision. It was the second thing I found, aside from a savant non-doctor, which diagnosed my illness correctly. Something like 5-10 doctors after that did not. Much time, money, effort, and suffering was then wasted. It is pleasing to see that Isabel Healthcare still offers this service for free to the general public and has now started to offer their differential diagnostic tool to physicians and health care professionals as well. See: Isabel Symptom Checker for Patients and Isabel DDX Companion. - 1/2/26

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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