Advantages: Fascinating insight into medical treatments used by our forebears Disadvantages: Don't try these remedies at home!
We think of the National Health Service as being the brainchild of Aneurin Bevin and so it was but even mighty oak trees begin as an acorn of an idea and if anyone deserves the credit for offering medical treatment ‘free at the point of use’ it ...
Advantages: Pocket sized, a wealth of info, just the right level of detail Disadvantages: Pricey if you buy it from the shop
This is the specialties twin of the equally wonderful yellow clinical medicine handbook. It covers all the rotations which we do in the fourth year in Leeds, and I suspect most other schools too, namely Primary Care, Psychiatry, Obs+Gynae, Paeds, and medi ...