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Book review
Handbook of paediatric investigations
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Stroobant and Field, perhaps the longest standing editorial partnership in UK paediatrics, have done it again. This time they shrewdly spied a gap in the market for a home grown concise book for everyday use aimed specifically at answering the question: “what tests?”
How best to review it? Why not try “road testing” it on a few problems this general paediatrician happens to have seen on the wards recently.
Firstly, a 12 year old with painless microscopic haematuria. We find the expected exhortation to take a full history and do a thorough examination, followed by …