Practical Diabetes Care
Author: Rowan Hillson
This is an excellent but slim, 232-page handbook that actually helps a primary care team to look after their diabetic patients. It is not a comprehensive textbook on diabetes, look elsewhere for that, but this is a manual which genuinely helps front line staff deal with a problem in front of them.
This is full of practical and helpful advice and is written in easy relaxed style that is certainly not taxing. The chapter lengths are short and can easily be read as an independent section and cover all the main topics. The chapter on eating and drinking is particularly good, as this is an area where all members of the primary care team (except for the attached dietician - if there is one!) are particularly weak in their knowledge.
Since diabetes and its complications are common in general practice and many type 2 diabetics are being managed completely within primary care, then access to good quality books like this are always going to be appreciated.
The only criticism is the price. It is a little on the expensive side but this is a book high on quality (and practicality) and the lack of quantity does not detract from the contribution it can make to improving diabetic care in general practice. It would be a welcome addition to any in house primary care diabetic service.
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Second Edition (2002)
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| ISBN: 0-19-263290-6
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