Category: Book Review
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Neurology: A Clinician’s Approach (2016)
The idea behind Neurology: A Clinician’s Approach (2016) … is to group diseases in the way in which they appear clinically…. I recommend it to more advanced rotating third and fourth year medical students, particularly those with a serious interest in internal medicine, neurology or neurosurgery.
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Basic Ophthalmology (2016)
Basic Ophthalmology: Essentials for Medical Students (2016) is an excellent book about the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders. The book provides a coherent and organized approach to ocular disorders. Namely: The Eye Examination Acute Vision Loss Chronic Vision Loss The Red Eye Ocular and Orbital Injuries Amblyopia and Strabismus Neuro-Ophthalmology Eyelid, Orbital, and Lacrimal…
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Peters’ Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (2019)
Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (2019) offers a bleak and sometimes depressing window into the state of health, or lack thereof, of underdeveloped countries, particularly those in Africa. The names of the diseases and symptoms are fearsome and sometimes curious: dengue, blackwater fever, rabies, leprosy, bubonic plague and more. The images are equally striking…
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Color Textbook of Pediatric Dermatology (2007)
Color Textbook of Pediatric Dermatology (2007) would ordinarily lie on the margins of the spectrum of books that I’d consider review-worthy: it’s approximately 400 pages long, has multiple authors and is, well, a textbook. Longer, multiple-author textbooks tend to fall apart conceptually at about 400 pages in length. This book, however, holds things together very…
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The Chief Complaint (2014)
The Chief Complaint (2014) is ideal for junior trainees and advanced medical students who are on an emergency medicine rotation and want to contribute to high acuity patient care without losing their bearing. What’s best, you can download it for free onto your mobile device.
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Frameworks for Internal Medicine (2018)
Frameworks for Internal Medicine (2018) is a very popular 768-page book which lays out a fairly detailed algorithmic approach to internal medicine. It is a single author book, which is a very rare accomplishment for an author of a book of this size and scope. The book employs mainly two teaching methods: the algorithmic approach…
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Tropical Medicine: A Clinical Text (2013)
Knowledge of clinical tropical medicine is essential for every modern physician. The diseases of warm climates are no longer restricted by geographical boundaries because the scope and speed of air travel … make us all part of a global community. Tropical Medicine (2013) Tropical Medicine: A Clinical Text (2013), first published in 1964, is comprised…