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The practice of emergency medicine gets more complicated and protean on a daily basis. Not only are we seeing novel diseases such as COVID-19 and xylazine ingestions, but our patients are sicker and our technology and record keeping are much more involved. Textbooks by their nature are several years behind the power curve that is modern medicine. The internet cannot be trusted and many medical websites are not kept up-to-date. Textbook editors have a Herculean task in recruiting contributors; organizing the book; editing the material; trying to eliminate redundancy; and keeping the topics relevant, current, and with a minimum of extraneous information so that the book is useful for the practicing clinician.
Source: The Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Book Review and Other Media Reviews Source Type: research