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Fitzpatrick’s Dermatology in General Medicine
Edited by Klaus Wolff, Lowell A. Goldsmith, Stephen I. Katz, Barbara A. Gilchrest, Amy Paller, and David J. Leffell
7th ed, 2 vols, 2402 pp, $495
New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007
ISBN-13 978-0-0714-6690-5
JAMA. 2008;299(10):1195-1196.
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Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine is the classic dermatology textbook1-2—so the question of whether a skin care professional needs to own it is moot. The real question is whether to buy the new seventh edition or scrape by with the 6th edition for a few more years.
Opening the new edition, we noted its dedication to Dr Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, who served as the editor-in-chief of the first 4 editions, and Dr Irwin M. Freedberg, who served as the editor-in-chief of the fifth and sixth editions; both have died since the release of the sixth edition in 2003.3-4 In their introduction, the editors highlight the dramatic extent of change in this edition (p xxxiii): "More than 50% of the text and figures of our 257 chapters are new to this edition, as are 50% of the authors." This recalled for us the days when our medical school professors promised . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Cory A. Dunnick, MD, Reviewer;
Robert P. Dellavalle, MD, PhD, Reviewer
Department of Dermatology
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Denver
robert.dellavalle@uchsc.edu
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