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11th Edition (Inkling eBook)
By Emad Qayed and Nikrad Shahnavaz
This book which is a review and assessment book is an obvious sister companion to the excellent textbook Sleisenger and Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease which I have previously reviewed here https://www.glycosmedia.com/sleisenger-and-fordtrans-gastrointestinal-and-liver-disease-2/ Ideally you should have the textbook as the study and reference guide and use this book to test your knowledge.
Richard Ashton and Barbara Leppard
Published by CRC press (Published April 2021)
ISBN 978-0-367-08597-1
Price £42.99
https://www.routledge.com/Differential-Diagnosis-in-Dermatology/Ashton-Leppard/p/book/9780367085971
For many people, dermatology is a closed book and a difficult subject to approach. Personally, I have always liked dermatology and no matter where you are in the dermatology appreciation/understanding/confidence spectrum-this outstanding book is for you.
Stephen Chapman, Grace Robinson, Rahul Shrimanker, Chris Turnbull and John Wrightson
Published by Oxford University Press (May 2021)
ISBN 978-0-19-883711-4
Price £36.99
This is another blockbuster from the highly respected Oxford Medical Handbook Series and as expected, this is superb. Like the other siblings in the series, it is packed with huge amounts of information relevant to clinical practice, in the title topic. Yet it remains a handbook, albeit chunky at 1002 pages but at the same time, it is portable, informative and educational.
Philip Buttaravoli, Stephen Leffler and R. Ramsay Herrington
ISBN 978-0-323-66203-1
Published by Elsevier (June 2021)
Price £74.54
https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/minor-emergencies-9780323662031.html
Put simply, this book is brilliant and covers areas that straddle presentations to Emergency Departments, Urgent Care facilities and Primary Care. Doctors, especially GPs and their clinical staff will find this book incredibly useful and I have not seen many books cover this particular subject area.
Joseph Jankovic, John Mazziotta, Scott Pomeroy and Nancy Newman
Published April 2021
Published by Elsevier
Price £311.99 (eBook)
This is a substantial and scholarly review of clinical neurology, and I had the pleasure to review the eBook only, using the publisher’s inkling digital offering. This is a well tried and trusted format that not only works seamlessly but is easy to use. It can be viewed as an online web-based offering viewed on a computer screen without the need to download any data. As part of the purchase package, the book can also be downloaded onto smartphones and tablets as well via an app. Both the web based offering and app are easy to use.
Published October 2020
By Awanish Kumar and Ashwini Kumar
Published by CRC Press
ISBN 978-0-367-54457-7
Price £42.99
This excellent book is a first edition and I am sure in the not too distant future we will see a second edition. One reason for this is that diabetes (mellitus) is a fast moving topic with plenty of regular change in all the subject areas of this book. In addition, I would like to think that this book will be popular and well received and that will also contribute to the rise of a second edition.
Paediatric Surgery
2nd Edition
Edited by Mark Davenport and Paolo Coppi
Published by Oxford University Press (January 2021)
ISBN 978-0-19-879869-9
Price £44.99
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/paediatric-surgery-9780198798699?cc=gb&lang=en&
This is the first time I have looked at a book in this series (Oxford Specialist Handbooks In Surgery) and I was very impressed. This is different from the well known and highly regarded Oxford Medical Handbook series (https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-medical-handbooks-oxhmed/?lang=en&cc=gb) and have their own characteristics see https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-specialist-handbooks-in-surgery-oshsurg/?lang=en&cc=gb As the title suggests, these are specialist handbooks and in this particular handbook, the core audience are relevant surgical trainees, established specialists and specialist nursing staff -and in this particular book all in the subject of paediatric surgery. From a personal perspective, after reviewing this book, I would add primary care to this list.
Edited by Majid Maleki, Azin Alizadehasl and Majid Haghjoo
ISBN 9780323809153
Published by Elsevier February 2021
Price (VitalSource eBook) £73.99
https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/practical-cardiology-9780323809153.html
This book which has a strong Iranian contribution is very well written, in clear, concise English and highly relevant to a global audience. The editors and contributing authors have done a superb job of creating an excellent and accessible general cardiology book that is a pleasure to read.
Laurence Brunton, Randa Hilal-Dandan and Bjorn Knollman
13th Edition
Print ISBN 978 12595 84732
eBook ISBN: 978 12595 84749
Published by McGraw Hill
Price £186.99 for the book
A good working knowledge of clinical pharmacology is a hugely important part of any prescribing activity for any healthcare professional who has the rights of a prescriber. There are some good resources out there and this is one of the heavy weight contributors. I use the word resources because although books are important, there is an increasing contribution from digital resources and hence the interest in this excellent eBook. Having access to an electronic text like this either on a computer, via an app on a smartphone or a tablet can be a significant support to a prescriber.
Edited by Robert Tasker and Carlo Acerini
Published by Oxford University Press (January 2021)
ISBN 978-0-19-878988-8
Price £36.99
This is yet another winner from this outstanding series of the Oxford Medical Handbooks and I am sure this new edition will go on to become an outstanding success, like many of the books in this series. For those that are not familiar with this superb series, these are more than just handbooks, they are encased in a tough viny cover and in the case of this particular book, it is chunky in its thickness. It runs to an impressive 1015 pages and yet remains portable and accessible.
Edited by J. Larry Jameson, Anthony Fauci, Dennis Kasper, Stephen Hauser, Dan Longo and Joseph Loscalzo
20th edition published 2018
ISBN for ebook 9781259644047
Published by McGraw Hill
This book is without doubt in the premier league of general medical textbooks and has been around for a long time and it has definitely matured with age. Interestingly, one of the editors Anthony Fauci has achieved international stardom due to his high profile and being advisor to Presidents and currently is the chief medical advisor to the current US President and has his own large Wikipedia entry page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci
Pathophysiology, diagnosis and management
11th Edition
Editors Mark Feldman, Lawrence Friedman, Lawrence Brandt, Raymond Chung, David Rubin and C. Mel Wilcox
Published by Elsevier
Price £174.59
I reviewed the eBook (Inkling eBook) version of this mighty publication without reverting to the standard physical textbook. According to the publisher’s website, the printed edition of this book runs to 2488 pages spread over 2 volumes. So, I would guess this represents a fairly large product, taking up a lot of library space. For some people that is ideal, they like the physical feel of a book and you don’t need an Internet connection to use it, whereas other people prefer to embrace the digital version.
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Interest in genealogy has been spiralling upwards for many years now and often it is a rewarding, fun and an educational pastime. With the advent of lockdown due to covid-19, more people have been stuck at home looking for something to do and some have turned to genealogy. Computer software is all but essential for storing, cataloguing, and indexing the vast amounts of data you are likely to collect in the multiple family trees, you may assemble.
Edited by Philip Gorelick, Fernando Testai, Graeme Hankey and Joanna Wardlaw
Published by CRC Press
Published December 2020
Price e book £112.50
I had the pleasure of reviewing the eBook on its own without resorting to any paper edition which in this pandemic world is becoming a more mainstream activity. Of course, the advantages of a digital book are obvious, it is likely to be more environmentally friendly, more available through a digital device via an app which can be found on a smartphone or tablet and can be more searchable. Of course, there is the value of the handling and feeling of a paper book and this now boils down to personal choice. However, a critical advantage of an eBook is portability on either a desktop computer or mobile device. Having this kind of information on the front line can be crucial.
5th Edition
Jonathan Wyatt, Robert Taylor, Kerstin de Wit, Emily Hotton
Published by Oxford University Press (June 2020)
ISBN 978-0-19-878419-7
Price £36.99
Hopefully many readers will be conversant with the excellent Oxford Medical Handbooks series which many of us have both started and continued our medical or healthcare professional careers using these excellent and supportive handbooks. This outstanding and refreshed (with a new edition) member of this series, is a great addition to help a healthcare professional deal with a problem arising from emergency medicine.
6th edition Published 2020
By Catherine Nelson-Piercy
Published by CRC Press
ISBN 978-0-367-34612-6
Price £66.99 (Paperback)
https://www.routledge.com/Handbook-of-Obstetric-Medicine/Nelson-Piercy/p/book/9780367346126
Women who are pregnant or who want to be pregnant may present to a substantial number of diverse specialties and sometimes their medical state can cause specific clinical problems.
ISBN 978-0-323-71333-7
Edited by Fred Ferri
Published by Elsevier (August 2020)
Price £74.99
https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/ferris-clinical-advisor-2021-9780323713337.html
I have used this book before and I am delighted to see that it continues to improve, it is updated due to being published annually. I would imagine that as soon as the book is finished for a new edition, the contributors start on the next edition, so the effort to produce such a book must be immense. The end product is certainly very impressive.
Third Edition
Edited by Hilary Humphreys, William Irving, Bridget Atkins, and Andrew Woodhouse
Oxford Case Histories
ISBN 978-0-19-884648-2
Published by Oxford University Press, April 2020
Price £39.99
November 29th, 2020
The Oxford Case Histories in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology provides an up to date method of discussing infectious diseases as case-based discussions.
Currently in the UK, doctors in training are required to maintain portfolios and, in most cases, case-based discussions are a requisite.
It is exactly the strength of this book, which covers the impressive number of 47 cases, all presented and discussed by Professors, Consultants and clinical lecturers, thus guaranteeing high quality questions and answers.
Eleventh Edition
Edited by Andrew Baldwin
ISBN 978-0-19-882719-1
Published by Oxford University Press, September 2020
Price £32.99
The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties has been the companion of many medical students, GP registrars and GPs as well as junior doctors over the years. Now four years later, I welcome the latest 11th edition.
Edited by Gary Firestein, Ralph Budd, Sherine Gabriel, Gary Koretzky, Iain McInnes and James O’Dell
11th edition 2 volume set published July 2020
ISBN 978-0-323-63920-0
Published by Elsevier (June 2020)
Price £352.79
In the modern Internet era, you would think that the blockbuster, large, almost encyclopaedic printed textbook (even more than the one volume, like this work) of any medical discipline is now a historical footnote in the digital age. I disagree and this superb 2 volume substantial and all-encompassing printed textbook of rheumatology (and it comes bundled with a digital version-more later) is testament that the large medical printed textbook certainly has a role to play in modern medical education. I would call this 2-volume substantial work, an outstanding scholarly contribution to learning more about rheumatology.
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