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Title: Not a complete work...
Review: I owned the version from 1987 and bought this thinking it would be an improvement. I only used the first one occasionally, but in my line of work as a Legal Nurse Consultant, I am constantly using a Medical Dictionary & Encyclopedia. Each time I reach for this book now, I know now that what I am looking for will have a good probability of not being in the book, or a poor description. For example, I was looking for the typical symptoms of hypocalcemia - the book tells you "hypocalcemia - a diminished level of calcium in the blood" - that's not very helpful.There are many other situations that have rendered my opinion of the usefulness of this book to be minimal if you need to rely on a medical dictionary/encyclopedia.This book was very dissapointing as I am trying to build my library. That is one reason for being able to see a book first, and have a few examples you want to look up in the book before buying.
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