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Conn's Current Therapy
47th ed, edited by Robert Rakel, 1204 pp, $55, ISBN 0-7216-4052-4, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders Co, 1995.
Donald Kollisch, MD, Reviewer
Dartmouth Medical School Hanover, NH
Arch Fam Med. 1996;5(5):306.
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I remember how excited I was to stumble over an earlier edition of this book during my residency more than 15 years ago. My training required that I focus my attention primarily on the diagnostic process, even when the diagnosis was obvious and the really interesting stuff was in the treatment. The Washington Manual, which was limited to use with hospitalized patients, was my bible, but I always felt somehow illegitimate quoting chapter and verse. Pocket-sized and spiral-bound, the manual felt like the Cliff Notes of medicine; the "real" textbooks of internal medicine were somehow more authoritative, more distinguished, more scientific and, to prove the point, were hardcovered. Sadly, Harrison's and Cecil's both made it clear that good doctors, real doctors, read and study pathophysiology but somehow magically absorb the basis of therapeutics simply by working with more experienced physicians. Treatments come and go, but disease lives forever. And then
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