A Problem-Orientated Approach

9^th Edition

Edited by Alfred Tallia, Joseph Scherger and Nancy Dickey

ISBN 978-0-323-69811-5

Price £70.99

https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/swansons-family-medicine-review-9780323698115.html

What we call General Practice in this country, is also called Primary Care and sometimes Family Medicine here and elsewhere. I will settle on the description of primary care for the rest of this review and although every speciality considers itself large, NHS Primary Care certainly fits that description in this country. It is large in terms of numbers of staff utilised and in terms of breadth and depth of the topic areas as Primary Care can cover a huge number of specialties. This makes keeping up to date a big undertaking which is very important, and we all have our own ways of handling this crucial activity.

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Colorectal Surgery 2^nd Edition

Edited by Richard Molloy, Graham MacKay, Helen Dorrance and Patrick O’Dwyer

ISBN 978-0-19-289624-7

Price £59.99

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/colorectal-surgery-9780192896247?q=978-0-19-289624-7&cc=gb&lang=en

This is the second book, I have reviewed in this series (the first book I reviewed can be seen at https://www.glycosmedia.com/oxford-specialist-handbooks-in-surgery/ which is a superb book on paediatric surgery) and like the first book, it exudes excellence. It is a relatively small paperback but chunky book and runs to just over 650 pages and is a modest size. But, it sure packs a punch and is a superb review of colorectal surgery.

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