Nursing Book Recommendations

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Greetings!

I've come to the conclusion lately that my book shelves are overfilled with nursing books and my local book stores are running out of nursing books for me. This thread is a great spot to share your spotlight nursing reading. Maybe a quick summary and maybe something to draw the readers in? :)

Currently I'm reading Over-Diagnosed Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health.

Welch, H. G., Schwartz, L. M., & Woloshin S. (2011).Over-Diagnosed Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health. Boston, MA:

Beacon Press.

The title speaks for itself, as the book is about over diagnosing patients with diseases they may or may not have. Recently this quote dragged me in " President Franklin D. Roosevelt, for example, was known to have high blood pressure --- it was recorded as being higher than 200/100 at the time of his election in November of 1944 --- but it unclear whether his doctors recognized it was a problem. Six months later he developed a hypertensive crisis: a severe headache followed by a loss of consciousness and a measured blood pressure of 300/190. He died shortly thereafter of a massive hemorrhage to his brain"

I'm not American, so I don't know much on Presidents, but this quote was just fascinating to me.

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