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Endocrinology
3rd ed, by Warner M. Burch, 216 pp, $20, ISBN 0-683-011316, Baltimore, Md, Williams & Wilkins, 1994.
Len Scarpinato, DO, Reviewer
Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(1):73.
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As clearly as if it were yesterday, I can remember my first endocrinology rotation. At that time (and today, to an extent), endocrine dysfunction and syndromes were high on my list of unknowns. (The only area that seemed to be even more confusing and that has grown since is that of genetic malformations.) If I had had a book such as Endocrinology, my life would have been made much simpler. During my family practice residency and practice of the last several years, there have been times when I have had to run to my files to look up an endocrine abnormality. A significant amount of those lookups would have been precluded had I owned this manual.
Burch's approach is problem oriented. He emphasizes workup, diagnosis, and treatment. It is clearly not a textbook. The table of contents is virtually identical to the second edition, but one significant difference is the
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