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Book review
Emergency ophthalmology: a rapid treatment guide
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Edited by K C Chern. (Pp 297; £44.00). McGraw Hill, New York, 2002. ISBN 0-07-137325-X
Pardon the pun, but ophthalmology is a very visual topic, so any book that aims to help the reader identify and treat eye emergencies relies on liberal use of colour photographs to permit rapid correlation between the patient in front of you and the relevant chapter. In this respect, Emergency ophthalmology does not disappoint. Furthermore, the editor, himself an assistant professor in the specialty in Boston, has drawn on a wide and expert body of authors …