TY - JOUR T1 - Practical endocrinology and diabetes in children, 2nd edition JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 641 LP - 641 DO - 10.1136/adc.2008.138438 VL - 93 IS - 7 AU - Ewa Posner Y1 - 2008/07/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/93/7/641.1.abstract N2 - Edited by Joseph E Raine, Malcolm D C Donaldson, John W Gregory, Martin O Savage, Raymond L Hintz. . Published by Blackwell, Oxford, 2006, pp 256, £59.99 (hardback). ISBN 1405122331I once won a prize in a “scientific writing” competition. We did not know the criteria by which we were going to be judged, and I was very surprised to hear that I had won. Soon all was revealed: the prize was for the shortest sentence. Our tutor felt that concise writing was important in science. I was reminded of it reading this book. Although some topics included are mightily complicated, the sentences tend not to be. Despite there being five authors there is a remarkable uniformity in style. The whole book is written in clear and concise way, and at the same time it is comprehensive and covers all the necessary topics.In the preface, … ER -