It is a widespread notion that toxicology is dry, tedious, and difficult to comprehend. In fact, the subject is the eternal bugbear of medical students around the world. To dispel this feeling, all one has to do is curl up somewhere cozy with this book. Toxicology Secrets is an amazing book. It is a veritable storehouse of information that is presented in an irresistible question and answer format. The book deals with the entire gamut of medical toxicology, taking you on a treasure hunt through poisonous trails and toxic detours. From the very first chapter that deals with fascinating historical nuggets down to exotic venomous bites, the authors take a stranglehold on the reader, and never relent right up to the last question on the last page. However, keeping true to The Secrets Series format, this book does not attempt to cover every esoteric detail about every toxin. Instead it concentrates on basic issues that a physician or health professional must know. It addresses the important questions that you would ask yourself and gives you the concise answers that you need to grasp the fundamentals of this very important subject.The "Secrets" approach has been extraordinarily popular and has given birth to a whole series of books in virtually every medical specialty, including Emergency Medicine, Trauma Management, and Critical Care. Questions and short answers and an informal tone are employed to make the text enjoyable as well as useful. Toxicology Secrets is no exception and is just the right length for a short course or clinical rotation, and is eminently suitable for self-study. Thus, this text is perfect for medical students and emergency medicine residents, but is also useful for pharmacy, nursing, and physician assistant students. Of course this book cannot replace any of the standard reference works on the subject, but if you know all of the answers in this book, you know a great deal of toxicology.To lend an extra edge to the more advanced students of toxicology, there are extra-credit trivia questions scattered throughout the book. This allows every reader to impress their teachers and colleagues with tricky and quirky facts that can make one appear very brilliant indeed. Focused and concise, this text is packed with all the information one would need in clinical toxicology in an easy-to-use, reader-friendly format. The book is made up of 64 succinct chapters written by experts in toxicology, and is replete with bulleted lists, algorithms and tables for quick grasp and comprehension.In this reviewer's opinion, the authors deserve unqualified praise for this masterly presentation of a vital subject in a handy volume that should necessarily find a place in every institute or department that deals with any aspect of Toxicology. The publishers (Jaypee Brothers) must be commended for making this invaluable book easily accessible to Indian readers, and highly affordable.So, don't just sit there. Go out and buy a copy NOW!<bold>VV PILLAY</bold></sec></body></article></article></body></html>

JIST

Journal of the Indian Society of Toxicology

0973-35660973-3558

The Indian Society of Toxicology

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BOOK REVIEW

Toxicology Secrets

Ling

Louis J

Clerk

Richard F

Erickson

Timothy B

Trestrail

John H

III

Indian edition 2001Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, Paperback

12005

113333

It is a widespread notion that toxicology is dry, tedious, and difficult to comprehend. In fact, the subject is the eternal bugbear of medical students around the world. To dispel this feeling, all one has to do is curl up somewhere cozy with this book. Toxicology Secrets is an amazing book. It is a veritable storehouse of information that is presented in an irresistible question and answer format. The book deals with the entire gamut of medical toxicology, taking you on a treasure hunt through poisonous trails and toxic detours. From the very first chapter that deals with fascinating historical nuggets down to exotic venomous bites, the authors take a stranglehold on the reader, and never relent right up to the last question on the last page. However, keeping true to The Secrets Series format, this book does not attempt to cover every esoteric detail about every toxin. Instead it concentrates on basic issues that a physician or health professional must know. It addresses the important questions that you would ask yourself and gives you the concise answers that you need to grasp the fundamentals of this very important subject.The "Secrets" approach has been extraordinarily popular and has given birth to a whole series of books in virtually every medical specialty, including Emergency Medicine, Trauma Management, and Critical Care. Questions and short answers and an informal tone are employed to make the text enjoyable as well as useful. Toxicology Secrets is no exception and is just the right length for a short course or clinical rotation, and is eminently suitable for self-study. Thus, this text is perfect for medical students and emergency medicine residents, but is also useful for pharmacy, nursing, and physician assistant students. Of course this book cannot replace any of the standard reference works on the subject, but if you know all of the answers in this book, you know a great deal of toxicology.To lend an extra edge to the more advanced students of toxicology, there are extra-credit trivia questions scattered throughout the book. This allows every reader to impress their teachers and colleagues with tricky and quirky facts that can make one appear very brilliant indeed. Focused and concise, this text is packed with all the information one would need in clinical toxicology in an easy-to-use, reader-friendly format. The book is made up of 64 succinct chapters written by experts in toxicology, and is replete with bulleted lists, algorithms and tables for quick grasp and comprehension.In this reviewer's opinion, the authors deserve unqualified praise for this masterly presentation of a vital subject in a handy volume that should necessarily find a place in every institute or department that deals with any aspect of Toxicology. The publishers (Jaypee Brothers) must be commended for making this invaluable book easily accessible to Indian readers, and highly affordable.So, don't just sit there. Go out and buy a copy NOW!<bold>VV PILLAY</bold></sec></body></article></article></body></html>