THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE AT OXFORD.

Oxford Textbook of Medicine

I scarcely know how to begin this review. The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is no ordinary book. For a start it weighs about one and a quarter stone, and as I know to my cost it is not easy to carry home on foot. An African-style head cushion might help you here. Secondly, as a well meaning colleague said unexpectedly tartly well you've got a lot of reading to do before filing your review. True, ...

Oxford Textbook of Medicine

159 good understanding of the placement of the transducer and changes in patient position to highlight certain features. Like the first edition published six years earlier, this is an excellent, well-written volume of use to the clinician as well as to the ultrasound technician. With its expanded treatment of findings and interpretations, it furnishes a good replacement for its predecessor. How...

The Oxford Companion to Medicine

Anatomy education at the faculty of medicine of Kuwait University.

An esteemed eighteenth century German anatomist, Friedrich Tiedemann, stated that ‘doctors without anatomy are similar to moles: they work in the dark and their daily tasks are mole hills’ [2] . Over the years several studies have reported on the importance of teaching anatomy in the medical curriculum and on the significance of cadaver dissection. The aim of this letter is not to get into this...

Oxford Handbook of Complementary Medicine

The book covers such things as definitions, cost, safety, regulation, legal and ethical issues and a range of practical issues, diagnostic techniques, and risk-benefit assessments of complementary therapies and medicines. The main part of the book is organized by condition, outlining for each the CAM treatments available, ranked according to level of evidence of effectiveness, followed by a con...