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Published by Oxford University Press
Rogan Corbridge and Nicholas Steventon
3rd Edition
ISBN 978-0-19-872531-2
Published December 2019
Price £34.99
I am a big fan of the Oxford Medical Handbook series and I suspect I am one of many. However, there is a large number of titles in this series and you can’t always get it right. Yet the publishers and the authors seem to have a very good success rate and I have been impressed with what they have churned out over the years.
A case-based interactive approach
By Sherif Emil
First Edition
Published by CRC Press in September 2019
ISBN 978-1-4987-1033-6
Price £125
I have not come over that many paediatric surgery books becoming available or newly launched and considering that it is an important discipline; this is maybe a little surprising. So, I looked forwards to reviewing this book on paediatric surgery and I was impressed by what I found.
13th edition
William James, Dirk Elston, James Treat, Misha Rosenbach and Isaac Neuhaus
Published by Elsevier (April 2019)
ISBN 978-0-323-54753-6
Price £164.99
https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/andrews-diseases-of-the-skin-9780323547536.html
It is not easy to find a good and reliable dermatology book that attempts to cover the whole specialty with a good selection of illustrations, in a single volume. This book admirably succeeds as being an excellent all-round textbook, as well as possessing a large collection of clear, colour images which are educational in their own right. I am also impressed that this relatively new edition which is now in a healthy and mature 13th edition, is a good all-round general dermatology textbook, appealing to a large audience.
Stevan Emmett, Nicola Hill and Frederico Dajas-Bailador
Published by the Oxford University Press (October 2019)
ISBN 978-0-19-969493-8
Price £34.99
Many moons ago when I was a medical student, I enjoyed the topic of Clinical Pharmacology. This interest remains with me to this day both as a prescriber and keeping up to date in the ever-changing world of therapeutics. So, it was great interest that I opened the covers of this book and looked to see what was on offer
Stevan Emmett, Nicola Hill and Frederico Dajas-Bailador
Published by the Oxford University Press (October 2019)
ISBN 978-0-19-969493-8
Price £34.99
Clinical pharmacology for prescribing is an excellent tool for those looking to broaden their knowledge of prescribing in clinical practice.
Published by Oxford University Press
Edited by Max Weston, Rachel Campbell, Nandini Vallath, Stephen Ward and Jo Wells
ISBN 978-0-19-874565-5
Published September 2019
Price £32.99
Palliative medicine is a discipline that transcends many medical specialties and it can involve complex clinical care but ultimately delivering it properly can be a very worthwhile experience for a healthcare professional and their team. However, it may be that some general and standard medical textbooks and resources may not supply enough information to help a clinician satisfactorily fully manage a palliative care patient. In the past, I have sometimes referred to previous editions of this excellent handbook and was most interested to see the latest edition and how that shapes up.
Seventh edition
Edited by Adam and Paul Staten
Published by Elsevier (August 2019)
ISBN 978-0-7020-5552-2
Price £54.99
https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/practical-general-practice-9780702055522.html
Considering there are so many GPs in the UK, there is a not such a large selection of practical books specific to primary care to help and support GPs and associated staff at the coalface. However, this book is certainly one to consider and it does exactly what the title says. This is no easy feat, as primary care requires a huge depth of knowledge over a substantial topic area and all help is genuinely appreciated. I have used previous editions of this excellent book before and I am delighted to see it has moved with the times. This new edition covers a huge array of topics at the right level and depth to help a frontline GP and other primary care clinical staff to deal with day to day clinical problems.
David Semple and Roger Smyth
Published JULY 2019 by Oxford University Press
ISBN 978-0-19-879555-1
Price £36.99
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This is another brilliant addition to the excellent Oxford Handbook series which seems to go from strength to strength. This is a very chunky handbook and in fact is really a fully blown textbook encased in a handbook size and runs to a chunky 1148 pages including the index. Even so the dimensions remain the same as other books in the Oxford Handbook stable, although it is much thicker than many.
9th Edition
By John Guillebaud
ISBN 978-0-8153-9349-8
Published CRC Press in July 2019
£38.99
https://www.crcpress.com/Contraception-Today-Ninth-Edition/Guillebaud/p/book/9780815393498
Any book on contraception written by this author is well worth looking at. He is a well-known and long-standing author on this topic and I have known him in the past to write with clarity, authority and brevity. So, it was great interest that I looked at this new edition authored by this highly respected authority and I was not disappointed.
Edited by Helen Turner, Richard Eastell and Ashley Grossman
Oxford University Press (Published July18)
ISBN 978-0-19-967283-7
Price £70
I suspect many healthcare professionals have heard of the Oxford Handbook Series which is excellent and very useful for front-line healthcare use. However, there is another series by the same publishers which may not have the same high profile but sometimes can be equally helpful-that is the Oxford Desk Reference series. As the title suggests, the books tend to be bulkier and this one is a hard back and is more of reference book rather than a portable handbook. I would consider this (rightly or wrongly) the bigger sibling of the Handbook equivalent. Irrespective of the series, this book is an excellent volume covering many aspects of endocrinology.
Second edition
Mark Miller, Jennifer Hart and John MacKnight
Published by Elsevier (May 2019)
ISBN 978-0-323-56894-4
Price £116.99
https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/essential-orthopaedics-9780323568944.html
Put simply, this outstanding book is truly superb and I could just leave it like that and you would have a fair idea on what I think about this great book. But it is only fair for me to explain a bit more on how I came to this conclusion. The main intended audience of this book are health care professionals who are not primarily orthopaedic specialists (though some may also find this helpful). It is primary care physicians, specialist nurses, physiotherapists, musculoskeletal specialists amongst others who will find this book very helpful. Considering the bulk of orthopaedic care does not take place in a specialist clinic or operating theatre but in many disparate primary care settings, this gives this book a potentially wide audience.
4th edition
Editors Jay Keystone, Phyllis Kozarsky, Bradley Connor, Hans Nothdurft, Marc Mendelson and Karin Leder
Published by Elsevier (January 2019)
ISBN 978-0-323-54696-6
Price £110.99
https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/travel-medicine-9780323546966.html
Travel medicine is not a mainstream medical speciality but it is an important one all the same. Occasionally we may be asked by our patients about fitness to travel or the impact of their medical condition on their travel plans. Sometimes in primary care, we are asked to formulate a travel plan and organise a vaccination schedule for some of our patients. Sometimes a travel medicine intervention can be straightforward and sometimes this can be complex and there is a need for help from a quality reference source. Fortunately, there are some excellent websites to help us such as the UK based https://travelhealthpro.org.uk/ (mentioned in page 541 of the book) but there will also be a demand for access to a trusted textbook style reference source.
Edited by Laura Mitchell, Bridie Howe, D. Ashley Price, Babiker Elawad and K. Nathan Sankar
Published May 2019 by Oxford University Press
ISBN 978-0-19-878349-7
Price £34.99
Don’t be put off by the slight awkwardness of the title of this book, is it a good description of the subject matter covered in this excellent book. This book is a superb addition to the personal or departmental library for both specialists in sexual health and for practitioners in primary care. Speaking as a GP, there are not that many books around that would help healthcare professionals in primary care in these topic areas and this book would easily fit this requirement. As is often the case for many members of the excellent Oxford Medical Handbook series, they are more than just handbooks.
Jayashri Srinivasan, Claudia Chaves, Brian Scott and Juan Small
Published by Elsevier (May 2019)
ISBN 978-0-323-55476-3
Price £74.99
https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/netters-neurology-9780323554763.html
As a medical student, I became enthralled by the skill and artistry of Frank Netter’s superb medical images and they helped me a lot. Now in later years, his drawings have been upgraded and the image bank enhanced by modern additions and new books carrying his name (he died in 1991) have appeared. One of them is this new edition of Netter’s neurology.
Second Edition
By A. Sahib El-Radhi
ISBN 978-1-138-31752-9
Published CRC Press in March 2019 £46.99
This is an excellent way of learning about paediatric symptoms and signs, especially in unwell children. These children can present to a number of different facilities such as primary care, walk in centres, Accident and Emergency departments as well as of course paediatricians. As we all know, it is not always easy to assess a child and it can be sometimes difficult to make the correct diagnosis in an unwell child. This helpful book is different from a standard medical textbook as it does not classify diseases into systems as such. Also, it does not take the traditional approach of reviewing causes, presentation and management of a particular condition. Of course there is nothing wrong with that but this book allows another dimension of learning, reference and education and it does it well.
Edited by John Reynard, Simon Brewster, Suzanne Biers and Naomi Neal (4th Edition)
Published April 2019 by Oxford University Press
Price £34.99
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You have to hand it to Oxford University Press, they continue to relentlessly churn out superb books in their outstanding Oxford Medical Handbooks series and this book is no exception. Like many of its siblings in this series, it is more than just a simple handbook. This is a very good textbook of urology ideal for both trainees and generalists within the speciality as well as primary care personnel.
23rd Edition
Stuart Ralston, Ian Penman, Mark Strachan and Richard Hobson
ISBN 978-0-7020-7028-0
Price £52.99
https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/davidsons-principles-and-practice-of-medicine-9780702070280.html
Published by Elsevier (April 2018)
I have a strong emotional attachment to this textbook and its predecessors; I started using this book as an undergraduate many moons ago and I used it intensively until I qualified. Through the years as a postgraduate, I have used many editions of the book and found it just as useful. So it was with great pleasure I looked at this book’s latest incarnation, the 23rd edition.
Edited by Jane Sturgess, Derek Duane and Rebekah Ley
Published November 2018 by Oxford University Press
ISBN 978-0-19-874985-1
Price £24.99
This is a superb book whose title accurately describes what lies between the covers, an essential guide on legal issues of interest to doctors and associated healthcare professionals. It is not a dry legal book but actually quite easy to read and dip into.
By James Ritter, Rod Flower, Graeme Henderson, Yoon Loke, David MacEwan and Humphrey Rang
Published by Elsevier (January 2019)
ISBN 978-0-7020-7448-6
Price £52.99
https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/rang-dales-pharmacology-9780702074486.html
I have always been a big fan of having a good knowledge base about pharmacology, after all this forms the basis of a commonly used therapeutic tool, namely the prescribing of a therapeutic drug. It is a fast moving field, continuously changing and requires prescribers to keep regularly up to date. There is no shortage of material to assist the prescriber and for some people; this excellent textbook will be a welcome addition to their personal library.
3rd Edition
Edited by David Cooper and Jennifer Sipos
Published CRC Press published December 2018
ISBN 978-1-138-57723-7
Price £125
This excellent and relatively slim (it runs to over 300 pages) book does exactly what it says on the title. This is a superb yet detailed review of thyroid disease and its medical management and according to the preface, it is 10 years since the second edition appeared. So, I would guess a lot has happened in the interim and I am sure for many thyroid specialists, this is a welcome addition to their support system when dealing with patients.
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