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Textbooks of medicine: raison d\'etre
Now, in the third millennium, is there any need for a textbook of medicine? Never before has so much information on medical matters been so readily available to so many: physicians are inundated, as are their patients and everyone else. The media seem to carry more and more medical stories in more and more detail every day. The genome has been sequenced. Articulate teenagers speak of stem cells. The internet brings widespread and virtually unlimited access to biomedical information (and misinformation) of a sort: one click of a mouse, and it\'s all anyone\'s. A plethora of organizations besieges physicians with guidelines and protocols on every aspect of the practice of medicine. Traditional values are being challenged in all facets of life, including medicine, and there is an unprecedented and entirely appropriate demand for supportive evidence, not just weight of experience, to justify medical interventions.
In these circumstances, some might argue that textbooks of medicine were irrelevant, inappropriate, or even redundant. We strongly refute this. Amidst the maelstrom of \'information\' in which physicians now work there is, more than ever, a need for a fixed point of reference, something by which the new, the exciting, and the fashionable can be judged. We make the bold claim that the Oxford Textbook of Medicine is just such a fixed point. We argue, unashamedly, that a clinical textbook in the Oslerian tradition is not only required but is essential, to provide expert review, evaluation, and recommendation.
Textbooks of medicine: raison d\'etre
Now, in the third millennium, is there any need for a textbook of medicine? Never before has so much information on medical matters been so readily available to so many: physicians are inundated, as are their patients and everyone else. The media seem to carry more and more medical stories in more and more detail every day. The genome has been sequenced. Articulate teenagers speak of stem cells. The internet brings widespread and virtually unlimited access to biomedical information (and misinformation) of a sort: one click of a mouse, and it\'s all anyone\'s. A plethora of organizations besieges physicians with guidelines and protocols on every aspect of the practice of medicine. Traditional values are being challenged in all facets of life, including medicine, and there is an unprecedented and entirely appropriate demand for supportive evidence, not just weight of experience, to justify medical interventions.
In these circumstances, some might argue that textbooks of medicine were irrelevant, inappropriate, or even redundant. We strongly refute this. Amidst the maelstrom of \'information\' in which physicians now work there is, more than ever, a need for a fixed point of reference, something by which the new, the exciting, and the fashionable can be judged. We make the bold claim that the Oxford Textbook of Medicine is just such a fixed point. We argue, unashamedly, that a clinical textbook in the Oslerian tradition is not only required but is essential, to provide expert review, evaluation, and recommendation.