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Practical Guide to Geriatric Medicine
Editor: Ranjit N Ratnaike
This is a well designed, readable and seemingly comprehensive yet compact guide (just under 1000 pages) to geriatrics. Even better it lives up to its title, as it is indeed a practical resource that is useful to a practitioner both in primary and secondary care. It is a multi author book with an impressive number of contributors coming from mainly from Australia and the USA with a small contribution from the UK and other countries. However there is no doubt that vast majority of the subject matter is applicable to a UK based audience. Without doubt the coverage is excellent and the book fully lives up to it’s brief. Even better the tone, language and style of the text indicates that it is written as an aid to the physician working with an elderly patient. There are a fair number of illustrations though there is nothing in colour but that is only a minor drawback. Topics that are important in geriatric medicine are given full coverage and there is a refreshing and welcome lack of small print stuff and obscure conditions. It concentrates on the day to day topics that affect elderly people and as such is ideal for a primary care setting.
| Publisher: | McGraw-Hill
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| 2002
| | ISBN: 0-07-470801-5
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