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Acute Ischemic Stroke Stroke Prevention and Recovery: The Ultimate Video Guide
Acute Ischemic Stroke
Edited by David M. Greer
248 pp, $125.75
Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-4700-6807-6
Stroke Prevention and Recovery: The Ultimate Video Guide
Edited by Valery Feigin
3-DVD set, $99.95
Auckland, New Zealand, Stroke Education Ltd, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-9582-8360-1 (Understanding Stroke—Expert's Advice), 978-0-9582-8360-1 (Home Care and Rehabilitation), 978-0-9582-8362-5 (Coping With Stroke—Aftermath)
JAMA. 2008;299(16):1958-1959.
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While children are still being taught to learn from books and the written media, it is my impression that the personal habits of many qualified physicians, coupled with current continuing medical education documentation requirements, are resulting in less and less medical knowledge being acquired the old-fashioned way, ie, by reading books. It sometimes seems that books on clinical medicine have become relegated to the domain of medical students, postgraduate trainees, and book reviewers.
Readable volumes, useful for busy clinicians, are still produced, however, and Acute Ischemic Stroke is one of them. Written by physicians and surgeons from the Massachusetts General Hospital, it provides an up-to-date primer on all of the major aspects of acute stroke care. Indeed, I can think of no more efficient way for an emergency department physician, neurologist, or other physician wanting to become involved in the early management of patients with stroke to quickly get up . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Ian B. Ross, MD, Reviewer
Department of Neurosurgery
Huntington Memorial Hospital
Pasadena, California
ianrossmd@aol.com
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