Month: January 2013

Editors: Ajay K. Singh, MBBS, FRCP (UK), MB,  Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1109 pages Book Review by Nano Khilnani This book is the first edition of the Brigham Intensive Review of Internal Medicine from Harvard Medical School. It has been prepared for medical students and doctors-in-training to obtain certification for practicing medicine, and recertification by previously-certified physicians. By successfully reviewing for and passing the American Board in Internal Medicine (ABIM) exam with the aid of this review guide, students officially become doctors and doctors ‘revalidate’ their practice. This highly valuable book has many good features,...

Editor-in-Chief: Amit K. Ghosh Associate Editors: Drs. Deborah J. Rhodes, Thomas J. Beckman, Christopher M. Wittich, Randall S. Edson and Dennis K. McCallum Publisher: Oxford University Press, 994 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This important guide to helping doctors-in-training prepare for the commonly-termed ‘board exams’ and pass them, to enter the exalted profession of medicine, was first published in 1994. This ninth edition, published in 2010, is a 994-page guide, with 26 chapters, to preparing for and passing the certifying (and maintenance of certification) exam of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). It has been put together...

Authors: Jason Smith, Ian Greaves and Keith M. Porter Publisher: Oxford University Press Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This 581-page reference work on major trauma provides general guidance and specific advice by trauma specialists (who have countless years of highly valuable practical experience handling many types of trauma cases) that the beginning or intermediate physician in emergency medicine needs, to do his or her job better. This book in short, provides the ‘missing ink between basic trauma management and advanced specialist care’ as described in its description provided by the publisher. It fills the need for evidence-based guidance and...

Editors: Anne Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, and Timothy H. Holtz Publisher: Oxford University Press, 806 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a unique book. There is probably no other written work out there available to students and professionals that focuses on health problems prevalent on a global scale, and discusses available solutions. The first two editions of this Textbook of International Health were written by the late Paul F. Basch, who was described by his colleague as “a man of singular purpose.” It has been, and is still acknowledged by students, scholars and others in the field,...

Author: Enrique Gaspar. Translated by Yolanda Molina-Gavilan and Andrea Bell With illustrations by Francese Soler from the original 1887 edition Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Book Review by: Artha Hemrajani The Time Ship, a translation from Spanish into English of the 1887 science fiction novel of Enrique Gaspar’s El anachronopete (‘ana’ means going backwards; ‘chrono’ means time; and ‘petes’ means he who flies) was published seven years before H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. Enrique Gaspar and H.G. Wells did not know each other or of each other’s ideas or plans to write a novel on the same subject of time...