Book and Product Reviews

A systematic approach

Ninth Edition

John Salmon

ISBN 978-0-7020-7711-1

Published by Elsevier (December 2019)

Price £164.99

https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/kanskis-clinical-ophthalmology-9780702077111.html

This book has a rich heritage and sadly the person most associated with the evolution of this book, Jack Kanski passed away relatively recently see https://www.aop.org.uk/ot/in-practice/practitioner-stories/2019/01/10/textbook-author-dr-jack-j-kanski-remembered-by-co-author-as-an-incredible-mentor However this new volume remains a testament to Jack Kanski and his work, whilst remaining fresh and updated. This is a superb textbook and sets the standard for other medical textbooks who should take note of what this book has achieved.

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Edited by Rebecca McKnight, Jonathan Price and John Geddes

Published by Oxford University Press

5^th Edition

ISBN 978-0-19-875400-8

Published May 2019

Price £34.99

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/psychiatry-9780198754008

There is nothing to beat a good solid undergraduate medical textbook and for us here in the UK even better, this is a British based book. The three lead authors are either practising in Oxford or in some way associated with Oxford University and the book is published by Oxford University Press. The book is good enough to be of use to both medical undergraduates as well as junior doctors and GPs wanting a refresher on the topic. Equally healthcare professionals with an interest in mental health will also find this a very good resource. I think a lot of people will find this useful and educational.

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Mark Miller and Stephen Thompson

8^th edition

ISBN 978-0-323-60978-4

Price £93.99

https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/millers-review-of-orthopaedics-9780323609784.html

Published by Elsevier (November 2019)

I have had the pleasure of having used a previous edition of this excellent book and this new edition remains fresh and relevant to modern clinical practice. In the preface, the authors have explained that they have tried to keep the information as compressed as possible. If you have not come across it before then it is an excellent textbook of Orthopaedics designed for specialists in the field and to help them get through American based specialty exams. However, this book has plenty to offer a global audience and in fact is also useful for a non-specialist audience such as primary care both in the UK and abroad.

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Craig A. Miller

Published by Oxford University Press (2020)

ISBN: 9780190073947

Price: £27.99

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-time-for-all-things-9780190073947

At the end of the short preface to this biography the words colossal and colossus were standing before me. This is the story of the mind of a man for mankind, with a prestigious work ethic that matched his ambition.

Although this biography of Michael E DeBakey is replete with personal vignettes, it traces the odyssey of his surgical training, with hints of humour on his steady climb up the research and clinical ladder.

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2 Volume set 26^th Edition

Edited by Lee Goldman and Andrew Schafer

ISBN 978-0-323-53266-2

Published by Elsevier (December 2019)

Price £155.99

https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/goldman-cecil-medicine-2-volume-set-9780323532662.html

In a nutshell, this is a superb 2 volume very modern general textbook of medicine that covers a massive amount of material in an authoritative and trustworthy manner. This latest incarnation of this book is now in an impressive 26^th edition and is very much a modern, in depth and superb textbook of general medicine.

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Published by Oxford University Press

Rogan Corbridge and Nicholas Steventon

3^rd Edition

ISBN 978-0-19-872531-2

Published December 2019

Price £34.99

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oxford-handbook-of-ent-and-head-and-neck-surgery-9780198725312?lang=en&cc=gb

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.

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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

https://www.crcpress.com/Clinical-Pediatric-Surgery-A-Case-Based-Interactive-Approach/Emil/p/book/9781498710336

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.

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13^th 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 13^th edition, is a good all-round general dermatology textbook, appealing to a large audience.

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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

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/clinical-pharmacology-for-prescribing-9780199694938?q=978-0-19-969493-8&cc=gb&lang=en

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

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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

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/clinical-pharmacology-for-prescribing-9780199694938?q=978-0-19-969493-8&cc=gb&lang=en

Clinical pharmacology for prescribing is an excellent tool for those looking to broaden their knowledge of prescribing in clinical practice.

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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

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oxford-handbook-of-palliative-care-9780198745655?cc=gb&lang=en&

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.

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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.

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David Semple and Roger Smyth

Published JULY 2019 by Oxford University Press

ISBN 978-0-19-879555-1

Price £36.99

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oxford-handbook-of-psychiatry-9780198795551

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.

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9^th 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.

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Edited by Helen Turner, Richard Eastell and Ashley Grossman

Oxford University Press (Published July18)

ISBN 978-0-19-967283-7

Price £70

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oxford-desk-reference-endocrinology-9780199672837?q=978-0-19-967283-7

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.

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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.

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4^th 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.

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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

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oxford-handbook-of-genitourinary-medicine-hiv-and-sexual-health-9780198783497?cc=gb&lang=en&

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.

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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.

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Second Edition

By A. Sahib El-Radhi

ISBN 978-1-138-31752-9

Published CRC Press in March 2019 £46.99

https://www.crcpress.com/Paediatric-Symptom-and-Sign-Sorter-Second-Edition/El-Radhi/p/book/9781138317529

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.

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