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01.10.2003 | Book report
Albert RK, Spio SG, Jett JR (Eds): Comprehensive Respiratory Medicine. St Louis, MO: Mosby Inc; 1999. 752 pp
ISBN 0-7234-3118-3
verfasst von:
Robert M Kacmarek
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Ausgabe 5/2003
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Excerpt
Comprehensive Respiratory Medicine provides a concise, well-organized and systematic review of respiratory diseases and their management. As the editors indicate, it is written for students, house officers, trainees in pulmonary medicine and practicing physicians, but not for the respiratory medicine scientist. It does not contain the depth of basic science discussion of specific topics that is found in some of the other textbooks of pulmonary medicine. The word concise best describes the overall text, for the breath of the text is large but the 78 chapters are covered in only 752 pages. The presentation is clearly an international perspective of respiratory medicine; the 120 authors contributing to the book are from 10 different countries. …