Take your mind outdoors while your body sits in class

If you are starting to feel the daily grind of classes wear you down, try one of these books about either wilderness medicine, international medicine, or traveling to give your mind a reprieve.
Leave any suggestions in the comments....

Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World
by Kenneth Kamler

Or Perish in the Attempt: Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis & Clark Expedition
by David Peck

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
by Paul Farmer

Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature
by Christopher Van Tilburg

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracey Kidder

To Build a Fire (short story, available online)
by Jack London

More to come later...

Note: I haven't read all of these yet; I'm just passing on some suggestions.

August WMIG Meeting

Join us at noon on August 27th in MN-263 for WMIG's first meeting of the year.
Dr. Rebecca Bowers from the department of Emergency Medicine and our faculty sponsor will be speaking to us. She will give a little introduction to Wilderness Medicine and how it relates to one's practice. Then she will explain the Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) certification which she completed this summer (I did too, see previous post). After that, she will give us a lecture on land envenomations!
Come learn a little about UK's Wilderness Medicine Interest Group and how you can make enjoying the outdoors a part of your practice. Lunch will be provided. Also, yearly dues are $15 for those interested in joining.

Please RSVP by Tuesday (August 25) to Stacey Gutman at slgutm2@uky.edu


Who: Dr. Rebecca Bowers, Department of Emergency Medicine, faculty sponsor of WMIG
What: Intro to Wilderness Medicine, AWLS, and land envenomations
When: Noon, August 27th, 2009
Where: MN-263