The Treatment of Acute Myocardial Ischemia:

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Sports fans know they will rarely be wrong if they never bet against Notre Dame in football or the New York Yankees in baseball. The medical book purchaser can use a similar philosophy for works emanating from Harvard Medical School.

This small book, edited by Lawrence H. Cohn, integrates the current medical and surgical approaches used at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in the treatment of acute myocardial ischemia and infarction and their complications. Because the authors are working at one institution, presumably in concert, the book does not have the unevenness and conflicts apparent in many multiauthored texts. The discussions