Unfortunately, you cannot add books to the library yourself — the library is a curated, read-only database managed on the backend server. Here's a full explanation:
How the Medical Library Works
The library is a pre-built, server-side database of textbooks. It is not a user-configurable system — books are indexed, parsed into blocks, and stored in a SQLite database by the system administrator. You (or I) cannot upload, add, or modify its contents.
Current Library Status
Bailey & Love and SRB's Manual of Surgery are not currently in the library. The current collection is strong in anatomy, anesthesiology, biochemistry, cardiology, dermatology, and other specialties — but general surgery textbooks like those two are absent.
What You Can Do
Option 1 — Request Addition (Best Path)
Contact the platform/system administrator and request that these books be added:
- Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery, 28th Edition
- SRB's Manual of Surgery (by Sriram Bhat M.)
They would need to be licensed, parsed, and indexed into the database.
Option 2 — Use What's Available
For surgical topics, I can currently draw from related books in the library that cover surgical content, such as anatomy atlases and specialty-specific texts.
Option 3 — PubMed + Web
For any specific surgical topic from Bailey & Love or SRB, I can search PubMed for current evidence and guidelines that cover the same clinical ground. Just ask your question directly and I'll retrieve the best available information.
What I Can Answer Right Now
Even without those specific books, I can help with surgical topics using:
- Current evidence from PubMed (guidelines, RCTs, systematic reviews)
- Web sources (NICE, UpToDate summaries, surgical society guidelines)
- The existing library where relevant chapters exist
Just ask your surgical question directly — I'll get you a well-sourced answer regardless of which textbook it comes from.