At first glance, this appeared to be another of the “palliative care for another subspecialty” works that have been appearing over the past few years. The amount of new and truly specialty-specific material in these can be limited, and one can only suppose that they are sometimes driven as much by publisher catalogue agendas as by real need. This is not the case with this short and well written book from the United Kingdom.
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- Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, TAS
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