Second edition (1,600 pages)

Hardback with digital access

Authors: Richard P. Usatine, Mindy Ann Smith, E.J. Mayeaux, Jr., Heidi Chumley

Published by McGraw-Hill Education

ISBN: 9780071769648

£94.99

http://www.mheducation.co.uk/9780071769648-emea-color-atlas-of-family-medicine

This book is an excellent teaching aid and reference manual. It will be of interest to GPs, healthcare providers in primary care, medical students, pediatricians and dermatologists – the dermatology section is huge at 611 pages!

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Tony Hollingworth

Published by CRC Press

ISBN  978-1-4822-1529-8

https://www.crcpress.com/Differential-Diagnosis-in-Obstetrics–Gynaecology-An-A-Z-Second-Edition/Hollingworth/9781482215298

Price   £49.99

Having an accessible, readable and trustworthy review of Obstetrics and Gynaecology is worth its weight in gold-and this book is certainly a worthy contender. It is a British production and so is well suited to readers based in the UK. However I am sure this should be of interest to a variety of healthcare professionals in other parts of the world.

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Second Edition Published 2015

Rowan Hillson

Published by Oxford University Press

ISBN 978-0-19-870563-5

Price £27.99

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198705635.do

Reassuringly, when I took this book in my hand it felt like a handbook – this is not a redundant tautology but an often overlooked prerequisite for this genre. I will take this manual with me as a habitual prop. It fits comfortably in the pocket. The information flows intuitively – the chapters, sections, subsections, succinct tables and chapter summaries are of a perfect size for a handbook / manual. All books can be interrogated via Contents or Index, but when you arrive at a given topic does it answer your query in one or two small pages? – probably not – but this book does! Be it signs and symptoms, investigations, diagnosis, or treatment, they are all dealt with in a practical way. This is a user-guide for healthcare professionals of all complexions who are treating a growing number of patients with diabetes. It is a singular achievement to produce a handbook that caters for all audiences. Diabetic nurses will find it an essential resource. It will enable interested patients to better understand their condition and treatment, along with the role of healthcare professionals in their care. Physicians will find within a concise presentation of diagnostic and therapeutic parameters, goals and outcomes, both for the disease process itself and of its sequelae. For all it will provide a handy and continual perspective of where their particular care paradigms, both global and local, sit in the panoply of diabetes pathology and treatment, which is the basis of the interplay between patient and care giver.

 

Jim Young

November 2015

 

4^th edition Published 2015

Melissa Scholes and Vijay Ramakrishnan

Published by Elsevier

ISBN 978-0-323-29856-8

Price £32.99

http://www.elsevierhealth.co.uk/secrets/ent-secrets-paperback/9780323298568/

I have not had the pleasure of reviewing many ENT books and I must say this book is a pleasure to both read and review. It is of a modest size comprising 576 pages including the index and is roughly the size of a standard paperback novel and yet it is packed with facts, knowledge and wisdom in an accessible and user friendly format.

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Combined pack

ISBN 978-0-19-875820-4

Oxford University Press

Price £49.99

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This is an interesting initiative by combining two popular members of the Oxford Handbook series and placing them into one purchase bundle. It is a very attraction option bringing together both the specialties of medicine and surgery into one offering.

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4th Edition Published 2015

Jim Cassidy, Donald Bissett, Roy Spence, Miranda Payne, Gareth Morris-stiff

Published by Oxford University Press

ISBN  978-0-19-968984-2

Price  £34.99

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Oncology is a very fast moving, scientifically based discipline and our personal knowledge bases constantly need updating to keep up with all these ongoing changes. It is also a very big subject area with a substantial amount of literature around it and is ever growing. If oncology is not your main discipline and yet you want to keep up-to-date with the latest thinking as it may constitute a part of your everyday clinical workload, then this is the type of book which may interest you.

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20^th edition 2 volume edition (published 2015)

Kliegman, Stanton, St Geme and Schor

Published by Elsevier

ISBN 978-1-4557-7566-8

Price £108.99

http://www.elsevierhealth.co.uk/paediatrics/nelson-textbook-of-pediatrics-2-volume-set-package/9781455775668/

Despite the fact this is a 2 volume set; each one is a substantial and heavy volume which reflects the huge depth of information and wealth of material which is available to the user. The word textbook can be overused but this is what I would call a proper textbook. There are 3473 pages between the 2 volumes and a 129 page index and gives some idea of the huge physical substance of this book.

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A colour guide to diagnosis and therapy

Thomas Habif

6th Edition published 2015

ISBN 978-0-323-26183-8

Price £121.99

http://www.elsevierhealth.co.uk/dermatology-and-cosmetic-surgery/clinical-dermatology-expert-consult/9780323261838/

Dermatology books lend themselves well to providing the reader with a rich, educational and visual experience and this outstanding book is no exception. As would be expected, it is superbly produced and full of a large number of images that are clear and sharply in focus. In addition, there are numerous tables, figures as well as flow charts which enhance the visual experience. The accompanying text is succinct but detailed enough to help a healthcare practitioner such as a GP, learn more about a topic.

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Giovanni Maciocia

Published by Elsevier

ISSBN: 9780702052163

Price £104

http://www.elsevierhealth.co.uk/complementary-medicine/the-foundations-of-chinese-medicine-hardcover/9780702052163/

For the student or practitioner of Chinese medicine (the intended audience for this book) this is a definitive text book. However, for the western clinician who has an open-minded interest in the subject the book poses an intellectual challenge, the outcome of which I suspect will be unavoidably entwined with the cognitive template that each reader will bring to the subject.

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Two volume set

25^th Edition Published 2015

Edited by Lee Goldman and Andrew Schaffer

ISBN 978-1-4557-5017-7

Price £103.99 from http://www.elsevierhealth.co.uk/clinical-general-medicine/goldman-cecil-medicine-2-volume-set-package/9781455750177/

Published by Elsevier Saunders

Reading the preface, I discovered that this book’s history spans 90 years (which is about right for 25 editions) and it is not always easy keeping a book dynasty like this, going through some changing and challenging times. So simply by the fact that it is here today must be some proof of its success and it was indeed a pleasure to review the latest incarnation of this of this impressive offering. Without doubt, this is an ultramodern textbook of general medicine which offers huge coverage to a large audience and is certainly well equipped for today’s demanding users. It has also embraced the digital age by providing a powerful and user friendly resource.

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5^th Edition Published 2015

By Catherine Nelson-Piercy

Published by CRC Press

ISBN: 978-1-4822-4192-1

Price  £49.99

https://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781482241921 

There are many books that claim to be a handbook and sometimes they are very slim volumes which are low on facts and information. On other occasions, these handbooks are in fact chunky textbooks that are far from portable or accessible. This book gets it just right and is a true handbook, easy to read, accessible and is not too large but packs in a lot of useful and relevant information. Most importantly, this is a book which will help a number of clinicians in a large number of specialties-in essence anyone who needs to deal with a pregnant woman with a medical problem. It is ideal to dip into and look up a particular problem that you have to deal with and rapidly read around a subject area. It is now in its fifth edition and has single UK based author who is a professor of obstetric medicine at King’s College London.

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8^th Edition

Brad Bowling

ISBN 978-0-7020-5572-0

Price £163.99 from http://www.elsevierhealth.co.uk/ophthalmology/kanski-clinical-ophthalmology-expert-consult/9780702055720

Published by Elsevier

For some healthcare professionals who are not ophthalmologists, diseases of the eyes can be a difficult to understand topic. Like any topic, once you master it then all of a sudden it seems a lot easier and makes much more sense. Certainly one way to master ophthalmology and get a better comprehension of the subject is to have access to this outstanding and excellent textbook. It is primarily aimed at specialist ophthalmologists both established and those in the training grades. However GPs with a special interest in ophthalmology or GPs who want an all-encompassing ophthalmology textbook may find that this fits the bill. Though for the latter group it may be a bit excessive for their needs.

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Author: Judith Jones-Ambrosini

ISBN-10: 1935826344

ISBN-13: 978-193582634

Amazon.co.uk:  Kindle £17:48 Paperback £18:50

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SISTERHOOD-DIABETES-AMBROSINI-JONES/dp/1935826344/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2_pap

Amazon.com: Kindle $27:20 Paperback $18:58

http://www.amazon.com/Sisterhood-Diabetes-Facing-Challenges-Living/dp/1935826344/ref=sr_1_1

Is your diabetes weighing you down? Is the patient in front of you feeling low following his or her diagnosis? Then this book is the perfect prescription – and without any side effects.

Reading the book is more than a breeze, it is a breath of fresh air, an irresistible joy from following these indomitable “sisters” as they overcome all the obstacles that diabetes has placed in their way. Not that the subjects of these short narratives would recognize themselves as being indomitable or the obstacles as being a problem. No! The problem was to overcome the realization that all the chores associated with diabetes are not so much an obstacle – but an opportunity to make their achievements so much sweeter.

Their example is a tonic and their outreach in all its forms and places an inspiration.

Whatever your pursuit, whatever tugs at you to excel, then gazing at the horizons in this book will warm the cockles of your heart and draw you forward to those broad sunlight uplands again.

For these “sisters” have crafted their glad confident mornings again – and so can you!

Jim Young

4^th Edition Published 2015

Drew Provan, Trevor Baglin, Inderjeet Dokal and Johannes de Vos

Published by Oxford University Press

ISBN 978-0-19-968330-7

Price £34.99  http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199683307.do

This new edition follows the tradition of the highly respected Oxford medical handbook series which is a compact, well produced book brimming with knowledge that will help the clinician in a large number of situations when dealing with a relevant patient problem. This book runs to more than 800 pages and is certainly more than a simple handbook but less than a detailed textbook. It occupies that healthy middle ground where it is portable, accessible and built to last with its sturdy vinyl covers. However there is a lot of pertinent information here which is of use to both a GP and specialist audience. Like many others in the Oxford medical handbook series, it is a practical and very useful supplier of information and knowledge. As well as helping solve a clinical problem for a frontline clinician, it is also ideally suited for a reader to quickly dip in and read around a topic quickly resulting in an improvement in the user’s knowledge base.

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Dennis Kasper, Anthony Fauci, Stephen Hauser, Dan Longo, J. Larry Jameson and Joseph Loscalzo

Two volumes

19^th Edition Published 2015

ISBN 978-0-07-180213-0

Price £179.99  http://www.mheducation.co.uk/9780071802154-emea-harrisons-principles-of-internal-medicine

In the dim and distant past when I was a fourth year medical student, I was doing an elective in the UK and some of my fellow students were from Canada. We talked about which textbooks we were using and they mentioned for their general medicine, they were using Harrison’s and highly recommended it. This was the first time that I had heard of it and I borrowed their copy. I was hugely impressed at the time and over the years I have come across various editions of it. So it was with great interest that I came across this new and latest edition and I am delighted to say I was not disappointed.

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Edited by J. Larry Jameson, Leslie J. De Groot et al

ISBN  978-0-323-18907-1

Price £251.99 from http://www.elsevierhealth.co.uk/endocrinology/endocrinology-adult-and-pediatric-2-volume-set-expert-consult/9780323189071

Published by Elsevier Saunders

Although I have used, the UK spelling of paediatric in the title of this book at the top of this review-on the front of the actual book the spelling is “pediatric.” So you can probably work out that this is primarily a North American sourced textbook. But that is not the whole story as out of the eight editors, one is from Australia and the other one is from the United Kingdom whilst the remainder are from the United States. Among the large contingent of contributors to this two volume book of excellence, there is a fair smattering of international authors. This is in addition to the many American contributors and so gives this offering a global appeal. Without doubt it deserves a large and universal audience, as it is a superb textbook as well as a substantial and scholarly reference source for all those with an interest in this field.

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Edited by Eduardo Bruera, Irene Higginson, Charles Von Grunten and Tatsuya Morita

Published by CRC Press

ISBN  978-1-4441-3525-1

Price http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781444135251      £180

This is a very impressive and detailed textbook/reference source and deserves to do well and be widely read not only in this country but throughout the world. Palliative medicine is a huge subject which covers a vast amount of medicine and I think this book is up to the job in helping a practitioner from a number of specialties, manage a wide range of situations, some common and some not so common.

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Nuance  http://www.nuance.co.uk/for-business/document-imaging-and-scanning/power-pdf-converter/index.htm

Price £63.99 https://shop.nuance.co.uk/store?Action=DisplayPage&Locale=en_GB&SiteID=nuanceeu&id=QuickBuyCartPage&siteid=nuanceeu

There is so much computer software out there, that it is easy to be overwhelmed and not see the potential benefits of a specific package. So whenever you come across a potential computer or IT problem, there is likely to be a solution, but the tricky part can be finding that particular solution. Or there may be specific piece of software that can provide a solution to an issue that you didn’t even know you had! With this product, I think for some specific users there can be an increase in productivity and being able to do things that the user did not know they could achieve. Being presented with this particular software, I wanted to see how it could improve my use of PDF files.

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10^th Edition

Editors  Mark Feldman, Lawrence Friedman and Lawrence Brandt

ISBN 978-1-4557-4692-7

Published by Elsevier Saunders

Price £226.99

http://www.elsevierhealth.co.uk/clinical-general-medicine/sleisenger-and-fordtran-gastrointestinal-and-liver-disease-2-volume-set-expert-consult/9781455746927

If there was a nomination for a blockbuster textbook of gastrointestinal and liver disease then this would surely be a leading candidate. It is certainly a blockbuster in terms of size and depth of coverage as well as high-quality content. The publisher’s website describes this 2 volume offering as “definitive” and “state of the art” and I have to say; it is difficult to disagree with this description.

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Editors: Michael I. Goran, Luc Tappy, Kim-Anne Lê

Published by CRC Press. Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN: 9781466593770
Hardback £89
eBook from £40

http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466593770

Sugar ingestion causes obesity – right? You either agree with this statement, or you do not. Or perhaps you are ambivalent, or unsure. Whatever your opinion – this book is for you!

Its succinct, extensively referenced chapters explore the evidence that supports both the argument, and the counter-argument for the obeseogenic and pathological effects of sugar (particularly fructose) ingestion.

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