Emergency Preparedness : Surviving a Zombie Apocolypse

The CDC has a new web page under Emergency Preparedness and Response, providing info on surviving a Zombie attack :   Social Media : Preparedness 101 : Zombie Apocolypse. 

The CDC uses this horror movie disaster as an example of how to prepare for a real emergency (like fire, flood, or tornado).    Enjoy!

Visual Culture of Medicine : Historical Health Posters Exhibit at Yale

Many of the wonderful posters in Yale University's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library's collection were donated by Mr. William H. Helfand, an avid collector. This spring the library hosted an exhibit of the Helfand posters entitled "Fin de Siecle: Visual Culture of Medicine".

View the posters exhibited, plus many more from the collection.

FirstConsult Free Trial through MDConsult

You may have noticed a new tab in MDConsult (See above).

FirstConsult is currently being offered as a free trial through mid-August.

This tool offers even more evidence-based, point-of-care info from MDConsult.

With FirstConsult, you’ll get :
• Evidence-based clinical information
• Continually updated knowledge base of medical topics
• Differential Diagnosis Tool
• Step-by-Step procedures with video and animation
• It can be deeply integrated into the electronic health record

To help us evaluate FirstConsult, please fill out the Free Trial Evaluation Form.
Your feedback matters!

We've Got Kindles!

The Kindle Project was funded by a grant through The Mercy Health Foundation to purchase 2 “latest generation” Kindle eBook readers with wi-fi, along with 30 start-up eBook titles.

     • eBooks focus on Management & Leadership
     *  Literature and Medicine / Nursing (aka Narrative Medicine)
     • with a few free classics thrown in.

During this initial pilot, Kindles may only be checked out by MMC Staff.

Checkout includes :
1) the Kindle device
2) the USB/power cord
3) a protective leather cover
4) a carrying case
5) the quick-start guide
6) and a book light.

You'll be able to search the internet, but will not be able to download titles wirelessly for the MMC Library Kindles. That said, new title suggestions are encouraged, and may be submitted to the MMC Librarian in advance.  

Let me know if you want to check out one of the Kindles!
             • If they are all checked out, we’ll put you on the waiting list and let you know when one becomes available.

If you already have a Kindle of your own and want to borrow one of our titles, we can make that happen. This allows you to read one of our titles on your own device for a limited time.

Your Librarian,
Michele Matucheski
MMC Library
3-0340

Kindle eBooks currently loaded to the MMC Library Kindles
Title Author (updated November 14, 2011)

Literature in Medicine Titles

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Notes on Nursing : What it is, and What it Isn’t by Florence Nightingale

Sound of a Wild Snail Eating : A Memoir by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

The World I Live In by Helen Keller

Management & Leadership Titles

5 Essential People Skills by Dale Carnegie

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Art of Oncology by The American Society of Clinical Oncology

Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie

Crucial Confrontations by Kerry Patterson

Crucial Conversations : Tools for Talking when the Stakes are High  by Karry Patterson

Crucial Conversations Summarized for Busy People by Peter Cellier

Dealing with People You Can't Stand by Dr. Rick Brinkman

Everyone Communicates, Few Connect by John

Good to Great : Why Some Companies Make the Leap …  by Michael Collins

Hardwiring Excellence by Quint Studor

Highlighted in Yellow by H. Jackson Brown Jr.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Hundred Percenters by Mark Murphy

Influencer : The Power to Change Anything by Karry Patterson

Kindle User's Guide, 3rd ed. by Amazon.com

Leadership Mastery by Dale Carnegie

Make Yourself Unforgettable by Dale Carnegie

Mentor Leader by Tony Dungy

Oz Principle by Roger Connors
Remarkable Leadership by Kevin Eikenberrry
Results that Last by  Quint Studer
Servant Leader by James A. Autry

Classics
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Aurthur Conan DoyleAmerican Fairy Tales by Frank Baum

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery

Call of the Wild by Jack London

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Persausion by Jane Austen
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum

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