Dr. Manthous has been teaching hospital and critical care medicine for 15 years. There are some themes regarding medical professionalism, ethics and patient safety that are reiterated constantly throughout the residency. There are some medical topics - "bread and butter" bedside medicine - that come up over and over again. He's combined these into a common sense manual for residents to review the messages that you will hear (seemingly) endlessly during your residency. Oxymoron is Manthous' "little red book."

• Oxymoronic Medicine - " The goal of this book is to share strategies for distilling seemingly complex problems to simple, common sense formulae. It is not a textbook of Medicine, but will provide general guidance for many medical problems (textbooks can give you much greater detail). It is a roadmap to becoming an excellent houseofficer, since it covers the most common inpatient diagnoses encountered by Medicine and Surgery trainees, and hospitalists. It emphasizes common sense ways of helping patients. Seeing patients and reading about their problems are the first steps. But applied common sense separates egg-heads from clinicians who excel at the bedside. "