2004-01-29 A nonpareil medical textbook

Prof.Braunwald's "Heart Disease-A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine" is not only the most authoritative textbook on cardiovascular medicine,but also one of the greatest medical publications of all time.Despite being one of the newest textbooks on heart disease-its first edition was launched in 1980-it has grown in stature and has leapfrogged all its older rivals.It is the book which every cardiologist likes to have in his/her library,and to many of them it is "the Bible".It is no surprise,therefore,that most of us can hardly wait for its next edition and quite a few will be submitting an order before it is published.