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Internal Medicine
4th ed, edited by J. H. Stein, MD, 2900 pp, with illus, $99, ISBN 0-80166911-1, St Louis, Mo, Mosby-Year Book, 1993.
Thomas L. Schwenk, MD, Reviewer
University of Michigan Medical Center Ann Arbor
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(5):466-467.
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There are several well-known comprehensive textbooks of internal medicine, of which this is one. All are equally exhaustive, as well as equally heavy (slightly less than 4.5 kg). The real question, however, is whether any of these encyclopedias of internal medicine have value for the student or practitioner in this era of computer databases and subscriptions to updated compact disk readonly memory textbooks.
The more than 400 contributors of Internal Medicine represent a wide range of academic institutions and regions of the country. The Table of Contents is organized with the usual organ-system approach. The coverage of each organ system is divided into sections on basic principles, diagnostic tests and evaluations, clinical syndromes, and specific disease entities. For example, part 2 concerns the alimentary tract and includes chapters on gastric secretion, gastrointestinal endoscopy, gastrointestinal bleeding, and diseases of intestinal absorption. The section on infectious diseases encludes a helpful chapter
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