I might as well get it off my chest first! This is not a good book and I did not enjoy reading it. I would not recommend that you read it or advise your library to purchase it.

In the first instance, the title of the book is wrong. It should be called the “John Hopkins' Version of Evidence Based Surgery”: 90% of the multitude of authors involved come from that institution. One hesitates to say that the judgement of some of the authors seems to be clouded by institutional bias but words such as “prejudice” and phrases such as “tunnel vision” spring to mind. Like any North American textbook, the rest of the world largely does not exist: 90% of the quoted references are from North American texts …