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Volume 343:155 July 13, 2000 Number 2
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Therapy of Digestive Disorders: A companion to Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease

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By M. Michael Wolfe, with six section editors. 882 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 2000. $125. ISBN 0-7216-7340-6.

When I received this 882-page textbook, I was intrigued by the subtitle: "A Companion to Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease." Should we consider this book, with its six renowned section editors, a partner of the established textbook of gastroenterology, which consists of two volumes and more than 2000 pages? The two books are from the same publisher. Do we really need three volumes with a total of 3000 pages to cover the field of gastroenterology? How could the classic textbook Sleisenger and Fordtran's be successfully supplemented? The preface to the companion does not really answer my questions. . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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