Edited by Maneesh Bhatia and Tim Jennings

ISBN 978-1-78523-126-1

Price £27.99

Published July 17 by CRC Press

https://www.crcpress.com/An-Orthopaedics-Guide-for-Todays-GP/Bhatia-Jennings/p/book/9781785231261

The title really says it all and in my humble opinion; the book achieves the aim of the title very successfully. It is a relatively slim volume comprising just over 180 pages but don’t think you will get short changed if you decide you want this book. I don’t think you will, as I found this impressive book is very good when dealing with most every day musculoskeletal problems and issues seen in primary care. In fact this book is excellent for a basic understanding for most of the common musculoskeletal scenarios seen every day in general practice.

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Second edition

Helen Firth and Jane Hurst

Published by Oxford University Press (September 2017)

ISBN 978-0-19-955750-9

Price £70

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oxford-desk-reference-clinical-genetics-and-genomics-9780199557509?cc=gb&lang=en&q=978-0-19-955750-9

I have already reviewed on this site, another member of the Oxford Desk Reference series on Acute Medicine, https://www.glycosmedia.com/oxford-desk-reference-acute-medicine/ and I was very impressed with it. So I looked forward to receiving this book and I was not disappointed. Like its sibling this is a solid hardback book, well detailed and an excellent guide for a clinician wanting to learn much more.

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7^th Edition

ISBN 978-0-323-35762-3

Edited by Ronald Hoffman, Edward Benz, Leslie Silberstein, Helen Heslop, Jeffrey Weitz, John Anastasi and Mohamed Salama.

Published by Elsevier (August 2017)

Price £272.99

https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/hematology-9780323357623.html

Reading the title, you would think that this is a general review of haematology and yes you are right to a certain extent but this book goes much further than that. The spelling of the title implies that it has a North American origin and indeed it has but this book now in it’s 7^th edition is a good old fashioned (take this as a complement) textbook working in tandem with the modern era. So you get the best of both worlds. Now there is nothing wrong with that and in fact it is a big compliment to a truly superb book.

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Edited by Louise Kenny, Helen Bickerstaff, Jenny Myers

20^nd Edition (Published July 17) Published by CRC Press

ISBN 9781498744249

Price £37.99

https://www.crcpress.com/Gynaecology-by-Ten-Teachers-20th-Edition-and-Obstetrics-by-Ten-Teachers/Kenny-Bickerstaff-Myers/p/book/9781498744249

Incredibly versions of these books have been around for about 100 years (The obstetrics version first appeared in 1917 whilst the gynaecology version made its debut 2 years later). Now in 2017, 20th editions of both of these descendents now appear; fresh and up to date. These books are available separately and can be used individually or together, the choice is up to the user.

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