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Book review
Therapy of Digestive Disorders
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Therapy of Digestive Disorders. Edited by Wolfe MM, Cohen S, Davis GL,et al. (Pp 881; hardback; illustrated; £85.) Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1999. ISBN 0 72167 340 6.
This is a substantial book edited by Dr Michael Wolfe with six of his colleagues acting as section editors. Many of the hundred or so contributors are members of the Boston home team. The others are from the key centres in North America with a smattering of contributors from Canada, Europe, Israel, and South America. This is in effect a GI textbook, but stripped largely of pathogenesis, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and differential diagnosis. Five …