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Venous Catheters: A Practical Manual

A strength of the book is the bold-type helpful hints that are distributed throughout. These are pearls of wisdom that practitioners have acquired through years of experience.

July 21, 2003

Indian Health Service career offers unique opportunities

By Leslie Farnsworth

The IHS program encompasses more than 100 different healthcare facilities, employing more than 15,000 people from all sectors of medical, social, and environmental health services. However, clinical staff accounts for less than 5,000 of this 15,000 total. In an effort to close that clinical vacany gap, the IHS has launched several recruitment programs.

July 16, 2003

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Web-based teaching tool covers multiple modalities

By Shalmali Pal

Swiss and British imaging specialists have created a prototype for an Internet-based nuclear medicine tutorial program. MedTML is based on an open-standard software platform (XML) and supports the separation of layout and design from content.

July 15, 2003

ACR Learning File CD-ROM Series: Gastrointestinal

This new edition covers more pathology, with a greater review of manifestations in multiple modalities and near-exhaustive discussions. With near-perfect form and content, this CD-ROM will be indispensable to any practice, academic or private.

July 7, 2003

Hunting for recruits, pediatric radiologists take aim at "misconceptions"

Pediatric radiologists say there's nothing more rewarding than intervening to make a difference in children's lives. Why, then, is it so difficult to attract qualified candidates to the field? At the Society for Pediatric Radiology meeting, three practitioners scoured the statistics -- and the workplace -- in search of answers.

June 25, 2003

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MR Imaging of the Lumbar Spine: A Teaching Atlas

Although not an especially sexy topic, degenerative diseases of the lumbar spine afflict millions of patients. MR Imaging of the Lumbar Spine A Teaching Atlas is a quick read that provides an extremely thorough and well illustrated review of degenerative lumbar spine disease.

June 18, 2003

Image-Guided Spine Intervention

This is an ambitious work by radiologists from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. This 300-page text offers contributions predominantly from radiologists, with clinical information enhanced by anesthesia and neurosurgical perspectives.

June 18, 2003

ACR Learning File CD-ROM Series: Body MRI

While the format of this first edition of Learning File is far superior to any other application, the program does not offer the depth and breadth of this modality, nor does it cover all the topics that are central to body imaging.

June 8, 2003

PET Imaging for the Radiologist: 3 CD-ROM set

PET Imaging for the Radiologist is best suited for the practicing radiologist who may be considering offering PET services.

June 3, 2003

Musculoskeletal Imaging: The Requisites

The true strength of this book lies in its 200-page review of trauma. The hundreds of images spanning all modalities, with detailed descriptions and routine use of diagrams, make it accessible to anyone on a musculoskeletal rotation or on-call.

May 26, 2003

Venous Interventional Radiology with Clinical Perspectives

The inclusion of the opinions and perspectives of nonradiologists is a particular strength of this work. It is a model for the kind of literature that will build common ground between imaging professionals and other specialists.

April 24, 2003

Head and Neck Imaging

This two-volume title has served as the authoritative text on head and neck radiology for the last decade. The 4th edition is an ambitious attempt to improve an exhaustive and comprehensive work.

April 16, 2003

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