Mark Milanick

Fainting Felines and Faulty Physiology Mark Milanick

Fainting Felines is focused on student learning. Nearly every chapter begins with patient vignettes, many based on literature cases. The chapter is then written to explain the physiology behind the patient's symptoms and lab results in a problem solving mode with little asides dealing with such issues as hummingbirds high body fat content, the toxicity of polar bear livers, details of the discoveries of nitric oxide and aquaporins, both of which lead to Nobel Prizes, as well as patients self-medications. Fainting Felines would make a great pair when many standard physiology textbooks including those by Costanzo, Silverthorn, Guyton and Hall, Fox, and Boron and Boulpaep. Students will find this book engaging to read; as they become interested in finding out more details they will turn to a standard textbook and actually read it with interest. This book includes all the chapters in Everyday Physiology on a Need to Know Basis as well as chapters covering much of the clinically relevant material on most textbooks. The general concepts of physiology are conveyed without jargon, using analogies from everyday life. It integrates physiology with the clinically relevant biochemistry, chemistry, cell biology, molecular science and physics.