Month: January 2014

Author: Theodore X. O’Connell, MD Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 360 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani At the beginning of this book, before the Contents, the author presents a section with 71 photos of patients and microscopic images of various diseases and medical conditions that all aspiring doctors need to know about. Pictures, much of the time, show things that cannot be easily relayed with words, because words for such descriptions do not even exist. This is one of the best and most efficient ways of teaching. This book demonstrates many other effective and time-saving means of showing students...

Author: Diethelm Wallheiner Publisher: Thieme Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This massive (12” x 11’’) book of 654 pages that is an inch-and-a-half thick and weighing about seven and a half pounds, covers gynecologic surgery more comprehensively than probably any other book out there in the medical books market. It is extensive in scope and intensive in detail. This book stands out from others in one respect: its art. The fine lines in the drawings show anatomical exactness, with precise and minute details. And the mostly back-and-white-with-shades-of-gray sketches presented throughout the volume, display three-dimensional anatomy that would not be...

Authors: Mario Sanna, MD, Seung-Ho Shin, MD, Paolo Piazza, MD, Sean Flanagan, MD, and Fernando Mancini, MD Publisher: Thieme – 702 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani It is unusual that multiple editors or authors of a book are located in different countries, but that is the case here. It must take a lot of effort to coordinate the work of planning the contents, writing and compiling articles, editing them, providing appropriate graphics, and the other tasks of putting all of this together to come up with an excellent, authoritative book as is this one. Drs. Sanna, Piazza, and...