Reviews for Training In Anaesthesia

The average rating for Training In Anaesthesia based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-02-04 00:00:00 Barbara Gaynor As I've been on a tear to read my way through all the good tongue diagnosis books out there, I'll start with this one. This is another Thieme publishing contribution: German, reliable, high quality texts. The translation from German is good--you know I will not put up with crappy translations. The color photographs are wonderful quality (189 of them), but small as befitting a pocket Atlas. The organization of the material is fantastic for quick reference and self refreshment and the case histories are good. Not only are there point prescriptions (relying heavily on TCM point selection, which to my mind is limited Chinese medicine) but there are also formulas and diet suggestions. Herbal suggestions unfortunately do not have quantities and are only indicated by their Latin binomials, which, if one is used to pin-yin is an annoyance. Worse only rarely do the publishers include the Chinese name of the formula, which makes things thrice as complicated as it should be. My informed observation is that this book is not didactic in nature like Maciocia's or Kirschbaum's. Case studies are brief and to the point in keeping with the premise of this book, which is to move from diagnosis to treatment while you are standing in the corridor outside the treatment room. This is not a book for someone looking for an introduction to the fine art of lingual diagnosis nor does it take you through considering how or why a person arrived at a point with such and such tongue. For this reason I do not believe it will make you a better Chinese medicine practitioner. What it will do is get you through clinic without making an arsehole of yourself.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-05 00:00:00 Kathryn Whaling A bit dry and abstract at times, but raises important issues and presents them concisely, with some engaging anecdotes. Interestingly, author doesn't attempt to apply the approaches she discusses to her own book; I would have been curious to know why. Traditional scholarship may be mired in positivism, elitism, the illusion of objectivity, etc... but from the standpoint of sheer practicality, the collaborative, multivocal, contextualized, author-saturated, politically galvanic research Kirsch envisions sounds like a pretty tall order.