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Editors: Charles E. Smith, MD and Jon J. Como, MD Cambridge University Press – 744 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram “Trauma represents a broad spectrum of disease and is the leading cause of death and disability among the youth,” according to Brendan Peterson, MD, MBA, who is professor of orthopedic surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and who wrote the Foreword to this book. Worldwide, unintentional and intentional injuries were the fifth and seventh cause of deaths in 2002. There are many causes of major trauma. Collisions in vehicles, falls, blunt wounds from being hit with various objects, penetrating wounds from gunshots and stabbing, and much more. In the United States, there were 29.2 million visits to hospitals for unintentional injuries in 2016 (the latest year for which we found adequate statistics) according to the Centers for Disease Control, and there were 169,936 deaths from unintentional injuries. Add to this the 36,338 deaths from unintentional falls, 40,231 from motor vehicle accidents, and 64,795 from unintentional poisoning, and we had 311,300 trauma-related deaths in the U.S. in 2016. With knowledge about the many aspects of trauma resulting from all types of unintentional events – injuries, falls, traffic accidents, and poisoning – we will be better able to save lives. That is one of the purposes of this book: to provide you – the medical student, resident,...

Authors: Peter Sell and Gina Murrell Illustrators: Sarah Holme, Alan Leslie, and Gina Murrell Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 787 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Books on flora entail a lot of research and cross-checking of updated facts and names to make them accurate and reliable. They also require a lot of prior knowledge of the subject which sometimes comes not from research but from experience and insight. The two editors of this book certainly had many decades of experience working in the herbarium of the plant sciences department of Cambridge University. The two coauthors of this excellent, well researched, and carefully laid out and meticulously well-written book spent a combined time of over a century (115 years) in the herbarium of the plant sciences department of Cambridge University. Peter Sell dedicated 70 years of his life there and Gina Murrell spent 45 years in that institution. I am not one who has special knowledge about flora, so I quote, as I do sometimes in some book reviews, the overall general description of this book as provided at its outset: “This definitive flora provides detailed accounts of the native species, naturalized species, frequent garden escapes and casuals found in the British Isles, including some newly described ones. Full keys and descriptions enable the user to name all plants occurring in the wild and some ornamental trees and shrubs.”...