Book Review: Avery’s Neonatology – Pathophysiology and Management of the Newborn, 7th edition
Editors: Mhairy G. MacDonald, MD; and Mary M.K. Seshia, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins – 1199 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book was first written about 40 years ago by Dr. Gordon B. Avery. In his Foreword to this, the 7th edition of the book he created, he points out that in January 1975, neonatology was not even formally recognized as a medical specialty; and that “the first Sub-Board Examinations in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine were given later that year.” He relates to us that the situation for doctors and nurses caring for ‘distressed fetuses,...
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