Oxford Handbook of
Clinical Haematology,
Second edition
Penulis
: Drew Provan, et al.
Penerbit
: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ringkasan :The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines a handbook as ‘a short manual or
guide’. Modern haematology is a vast field which involves almost every
other medical speciality and which, more than most, straddles the worlds
of the basic biomedical sciences and clinical practice. Since the rapidly proliferating
numbers of textbooks on this topic are becoming denser and
heavier with each new edition, the medical student and young doctor in
training are presented with a daunting problem, particularly as they try to
put these fields into perspective. And those who try to teach them are not
much better placed; on the one hand they are being told to decongest the
curriculum, while on the other they are expected to introduce large slices
of molecular biology, social science, ethics and communication skills, not
to mention a liberal sprinkling of poetry, music and art.
In this over-heated educational scene the much maligned ‘handbook’
could well stage a come-back and gain new respectability, particularly in
the role of a friendly guide. In the past this genre has often been viewed as
having little intellectual standing, of no use to anybody except the panicstricken
student who wishes to try to make up for months of mis-spent
time in a vain, one-night sitting before their final examination. But given
the plethora of rapidly changing information that has to be assimilated, the
carefully prepared précis is likely to play an increasingly important role in
medical education. Perhaps even that ruination of the decent paragraph
and linchpin of the pronouncements of medical bureaucrats, the ‘bulletpoint’,
may become acceptable, albeit in small doses, as attempts are
made to highlight what is really important in a scientific or clinical field of
enormous complexity and not a little uncertainty.
In this short account of blood diseases the editors have done an excellent
service to medical students, as well as doctors who are not specialists
in blood diseases, by summarising in simple terms the major features and
approaches to diagnosis and management of most of the blood diseases
that they will meet in routine clinical practice or in the tedious examinations
that face them. And in condensing this rapidly expanding field they
have, remarkably, managed to avoid one of the great difficulties and pitfalls
of this type of teaching; in trying to reduce complex issues down to their
bare bones, it is all too easy to introduce inaccuracies.
One word of warning from a battle-scarred clinician however. A précis
of this type suffers from the same problem as a set of multiple-choice
questions. Human beings are enormously complex organisms, and sick
ones are even more complicated; during a clinical lifetime the self-critical
doctor will probably never encounter a ‘typical case’ of anything. Thus the
outlines of the diseases that are presented in this book must be used as
approximate guides, and no more. But provided they bear this in mind,
students will find that it is a very valuable summary of modern haematology;
the addition of the Internet sources is a genuine and timely bonus
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