{"product_id":"9780306423093","title":"Topics in Gastroenterology","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTopics in Gastroenterology\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eHalevy, Jonathan\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is an extraordinary achievement by Jonathan Halevy. To condense the material of three major gastrointestinal textbooks would be triumph enough, but to add a distillate of the contents of ten journals, from 1980 to 1985, requires Herculean vigor. To reorganize all the material under headings which extract concise \"facts\" from wheat and chaff requires a passionate interest in pa­ tients together with an understanding of physiology. Fortunately, Jonathan Halevy has just the right combination of clinical and lab­ oratory interest for him to select the details of what is important. Such compulsive dedication has now made it possible for the prac­ ticing phYSician, gastroenterologist, or house officer, interested in preparing for board examinations or simply browsing in the field, to have at his fingertips a series of definitions and to put in his pocket the key facts for diagnosis and therapy. Of course, facts by themselves are something of which to be a little wary. Scientists first, doctors regard facts the way farmers look at sheep-to be sheared for their utility. Medicine too often is only a fact-gathering occupation (some lectures send me to wool­ gathering), in which having the facts sometimes clouds clinical judgment about what is important for the individual patient. - vii viii FOREWORD tionalism and romanticism lie at the two poles of medical practice, but rationalism rules in the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1986-11-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780306423093\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4684-1251-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 216cm x140cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 214\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44422533021836,"sku":"9780306423093","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780306423093.jpg?v=1775789768","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780306423093","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}