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Book Reviews


Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
978-0198568377

"So we’ve all been there - you’re in a clinic and your consultant turns to you with expectant eyes….”so what are the differential diagnoses?” Cue embarrassing silence or plucking diagnoses out of thin air.
One of the skills that medical students consistently struggle with is the development of a differential list, while trying to discount some of these possibilities as we take the history. But how can we progress toward a system that allows us to go through this methodically?
The OHCD may well be our long awaited answer..."

Steve Knight
Year 4 Intercalating student

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Lecture Notes: General Surgery , 11th Edition
http://www.medicprint.com/Product-General-Surgery_22165.aspx
978-1-4051-3911-3

"The authors of Lecture Notes on General Surgery acknowledge that their aim is not to provide an exhaustive surgical text, but to briefly present medical students with the important facts in general surgery. In just over four hundred pages they more than achieve this aim..."

Benedict Rogers
Final year

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Textbook of Surgery, 3rd Edition

http://www.medicprint.com/Product-Textbook-of-Surgery_64035.aspx
978-1-4051-2627-4

"The Textbook of Surgery is aimed at both medical students and surgical trainees. The book aims to provide an understanding of surgical principles, specific surgical conditions and some basic surgical procedures, whilst also addressing the impact of scientific and technological advances on surgical practice..."

Benedict Rogers
Final year

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Essential Neurosurgery, 3rd Edition
http://www.medicprint.com/Product-Essential-Neurosurgery_24111.aspx
978-1-4051-1641-1

"Possibly one of the most complex and involved specialities within Medicine for student‘s and doctors alike, neuroscience books can sometimes reflect this with double-dutch language and be guilty of extreme over-complication. Despite these characteristics, there has always been potential to condense neurology and its surgical partner into a text that covers most of clinically relevant information we will be expected to know..."

Steve Knight
Year 4 Intercalating student

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Alarm Bells in Medicine: Danger Symptoms in Medicine, Surgery and Clinical Specialties
http://www.medicprint.com/Product-Alarm-Bells-in-Medicine-Danger-Symptoms-in-Medicine-Surgery-and-Clinical-Specialties_57285.aspx
978-0-7279-1819-2

"One of your worst nightmares as a doctor- Losing a patient to a life-threatening condition that YOU have missed. To prevent any of us having to go through this awful ordeal this may be just the book you need."

Kriti Singhania
Year 2 Medical Student

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