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Pleural Diseases

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I decided to buy this book instead of the other book by Light and now I realize it was not the right decision.

This book has various drawbacks which I've found after reading 5 chapters.

- Its badly written especially the grammar,I understand many authors are from non english speaking countries but don't they edit these chapters?
- somewhere its mentioned the authors were not paid for writing the chapters and this may have got something to do with the final book
- apart from a few chapters most of the information in this book can be found in murray and nadel and uptodate.
- Its by no means exhaustive and is a poor source of reference for pleural diseases.
- for eg I was looking for information on rickettsial lung/pleural diseases and I found more info on Harrison's then in this book.

Big Disappointment and a waste of 180$.Unfortunately by the time I realized this book is not worth it, it was already past 30 days and so am stuck with it for ever.....

Very impressive book.
the only problem as I see it: A lot of the stuff inside has already been distilled and given to us( residents and fellows) in small doses. So you already know a sizable portion of the work.
Another guru I regard highly, for pleural disease is Steven Sahn from MUSC.

the book is THE state of the art in pleural diseases, exactly what you'd expect from Dr. Light. updated, concise, and clinically directed.