About Book
“Questions you will be requested on rounds, in the clinic, and on oral exams.”
This used to be the subtitle to the first Medical Secrets textbook with the aid of Anthony Zollo from 1991. This used to be click on bait earlier than there was once click on bait. No scientific pupil may want to face up to a title like that. And it additionally is unusually compelling for attendings and teachers.
Doctors don’t get to peer internal the bedside educating of different attendings, and the threat to see the questions that others are asking is difficult to resist.
The e book in your hand is the fourth version of Nephrology Secrets. It has been almost a decade considering the fact that Lerma and Nissenson edited the 1/3 edition. All factors of nephrology have evolved, and some matters have been absolutely revolutionized.
Since the 1/3 version was once published, the purpose of idiopathic membranous nephropathy has been elucidated, a genetic mutation explaining the excessive price of kidney disorder in African Americans has been discovered.
We have a nice remedy for hepatitis C and its downstream kidney effects. Home dialysis modalities have recovered from being on the ropes and are now resurgent in each peritoneal and hemodialysis. The biomedical revolution in oncology has uncovered novel kidney diseases.
The molecular mechanism of preeclampsia, the most frequent glomerular sickness on the planet, has been elucidated. Nephrology is no longer the slow, methodical uniqueness of yore; it is speedy transferring and continuously changing.
Parallel to the modifications in the science there has been a revolution in how nephrology educators educate and are recognized. More and greater educating is moving from the lecture room and bedside to the smartphone and internet.
Therefore, the contemporary version consists of contributions from numerous men and women who have honed their abilities educating in that space.
In preserving with the layout of the authentic Medical Secrets, we have covered questions on daily matters in addition to some “zebras” of precise educational interest. We hope that this e book will be used no longer solely via nephrologists and nephrology fellows, scientific residents and interns, and clinical college students however additionally through principal care companies with specific hobby in the artwork of homeostasis.
From non-public experience, we understand that very few human beings examine a textbook from cowl to cover. For a range of reasons, human beings skim via books as affected person encounters and pursuits information them. To accommodate this reality, we tried to make sure that every chapter would be entire in itself.
As a consequence, there is unavoidable overlap amongst some of the data furnished in many chapters. Indulge this luxury; paper is cheap, and this makes the e book a higher statistics retrieval appliance.
Though solely three names are on the cover, this e book should no longer have been produced barring a battalion of contributors. First, and most obviously, we are in debt to all of the contributing authors who have spent hours in producing high-quality, up-to-the-last-minute statistics that was once rewarded with telephone, email and Twitter direct messages with suggestions, rewrites, and “spirited discussions.”
The ISBN says fourth edition, however if you ask the authors, they will inform you it used to be nearer to a clean-sheet rewrite. We specific our honest gratitude for all the authors’ openness to this collaboration. Namaste.
Additionally, we would want to specific the best gratitude to all the workforce of Elsevier, most particularly Meghan Andress, our Developmental Editor, Rachel McMullen, our Senior Project Manager; and James Merritt, our Senior Acquisitions Editor, all of whom have been very affected person with our procrastinations and stubbornness.
Lastly, and philosophically, we thank our very own instructors and our mentors, who committed their time to instruct and structure us to emerge as nephrologists and teachers. We thank the undergraduates, scientific students, residents, and fellows who have taught us how to teach.
Lastly, we understand and thank the patients, who are the purpose we are here. Knowledge barring software is an empty vessel. Every web page consists of data gleaned off the backs of patients.
Their sickness created this book, and on behalf of all the contributors to this book, we fervently hope that the efforts may additionally assist alleviate their suffering, stop others from becoming in a similar way ill, and possibly lead to their recovery.
