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By Marschall S. Runge and M. Andrew Greganti
2nd Edition, 1588 pp, $187.50
Philadelphia, PA, Saunders/Elsevier 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-4417-8

JAMA. 2009;302(10):1117.

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Knowledgeable teachers with integrity serve as role models to help learners appreciate what can be achieved. Through the production of the second edition of Netter's Internal Medicine, many clinician scholars at the University of North Carolina collaborated to produce a remarkably impressive display of clinical erudition at a time when many others in academic medicine were busy responding to the pressure their institutions generated to help finance their local enterprises. This textbook stands as clear evidence that at one institution the standards for clinical knowledge are set high.

I used this text in my clinical teaching and practice to test the editors' goal to organize the information of internal medicine for students, residents, and practicing physicians. I found chapters of high quality that summarized a breadth of important topics clearly, although in several instances the application to clinical teaching and practice fell short of my expectations. The chapter on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

William C. Taylor, MD, Reviewer
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
william_taylor@hms.harvard.edu

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