Oxford desk reference: Geriatric medicine

Oxford Desk Reference: Clinical Genetics

Reading this handbook of " Cardiothoracic " surgery, I am reminded of the Peter Cook & Dudley Moore sketch about the one legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan: " I love your right leg … I have nothing against your right leg … unfortunately neither do you! " Well, I have nothing against the cardiac surgery side of this book, it is excellent. Unfortunately the Thoracic component is almost...

Oxford Textbook of Medicine

I scarcely know how to begin this review. The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is no ordinary book. For a start it weighs about one and a quarter stone, and as I know to my cost it is not easy to carry home on foot. An African-style head cushion might help you here. Secondly, as a well meaning colleague said unexpectedly tartly well you've got a lot of reading to do before filing your review. True, ...

Oxford Textbook of Medicine

159 good understanding of the placement of the transducer and changes in patient position to highlight certain features. Like the first edition published six years earlier, this is an excellent, well-written volume of use to the clinician as well as to the ultrasound technician. With its expanded treatment of findings and interpretations, it furnishes a good replacement for its predecessor. How...

Geriatric medicine.

To expose the medical student to a meaningful, clinically oriented geriatric medical experience. OBJECTIVES To provide the student with a truly Ahands-on@ rotation in the following setting: outpatient geriatrics where assessment on care planning takes place with the medical student providing important information. The inpatient, nursing home and day care experience will be less emphasized durin...

Geriatric Medicine