Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Psychosomatic Research

P.G.F. Nixon
1987 Postgraduate medical journal  
228 BOOK REVIEWS tions and gives a clear account of them and their indications. The relevance of skin testing for atopy and tuberculosis are useful reviews and junior doctors are frequently confused as to their usefulness. The major section of the book deals with common problems and sensibly deals with both specific illnesses and presenting problems such as pleural effusion. Treatment sections are precise and up to date but because of difficulties with some aspects of treatment, the final
more » ... n deals with a few specific treatment problems like oxygen therapy and drug nebulisation. The question and answer format means the book contains a large quantity of data and is therefore not always that easy to read, but is always informative and well produced with an almost complete absence of illustrations, possibly detracting from the radiological sections where line drawings rather than the expensive and difficult to produce X-rays could have helped the text. Despite this reservation, the authors have produced an excellent book for training hospital doctors in chest disease.
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