Category: Book Review
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Primary Care Otolaryngology (2019)
The stated aim of Primary Care Otolaryngology (2019) is “to provide the necessary information for medical students and allied health professionals.” The book “is designed to provide guidance on how to manage uncomplicated problems that can be taken care of by a patient’s primary care provider” and to “facilitate the recognition of potentially serious problems…
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Rheumatology Made Ridiculously Simple (2020)
Rheumatology Made Ridiculously Simple (2020) is a concise and clear overview of rheumatology. The book starts with a discussion of how to evaluate patients with joint pain, and then proceeds with a detailed overview of the diagnoses and management of all the important rheumatological diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the spondyloarthropathies and…
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Surgical Anatomy for Mastery of Open Operations (2018)
Surgical Anatomy for Mastery of So while I believe that there’s still work that needs to be done to bring this text to top-notch level, Surgical Anatomy for Mastery of Open Operations (2018) is, as is, among the best in its genre, and I therefore recommend it very highly to surgery residents and to medical…
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Basic and Bedside Electrocardiography (2009)
In a rather crowded field of exceptional books on electrocardiography, Basic and Bedside Electrocardiography (2009) stands out as one of the finest—perhaps among the top four or five. The book, written by a cardiologist with a lot of experience teaching cardiology to medical students and residents at an academic center, is quite different from most…
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Raven Neurology Review: For the Medical Student Clerkship (2018)
Raven Neurology Review: For the Medical Student Clerkship (2018) is an excellent clinical neurology book that is geared toward intermediate-level medical students, particularly those who are taking a neurology clerkship or studying for the shelf examination. Presentations are mostly case-based. For example, the book (page 135) provides a case of a young female with obesity…
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Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis (2020)
[This post is an update of my review of a previous edition of Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis, which I reviewed elsewhere in 2012. And granted, I won’t pretend the have done the kind of leg-work I did back then when I wrote, “I’ve been reading and annotating this book for close to a month…
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How the Endocrine System Works (2016)
No one in the medical community has so far been successful at stopping the epidemic of terrible endocrinology books that has been plaguing the medical community for decades. I won’t name names but have a look at what’s out there and you’ll be stunned: the market is full of bloated endocrinology tomes that have many…