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Medical text for non-medical professionals

McCrack · 2011-10-16 11:14:05

Can any medical student or professional kindly recommend a text suitable for lawyers practising in personal injury and medical negligence to get ones head around anatomy & medical terminology etc. It's an area I'm involved in recently and as you can appreciate litigating such matters involves obtaining expert…

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16-10-2011 12:14pm

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Can any medical student or professional kindly recommend a text suitable for lawyers practising in personal injury and medical negligence to get ones head around anatomy & medical terminology etc. It's an area I'm involved in recently and as you can appreciate litigating such matters involves obtaining expert opinions/reports and consulting with doctors/consultants on the phone and I need to get to grips with it.

Thanks.

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#2 22-10-2011 8:59pm
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The Merck Manual of Medical Information Home Addition.

Based on the world's most widely used textbook of medicine—The Merck Manual—but written in everyday language by 300 outstanding contributors.

it should be just what your looking for

or this random book http://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Lawyers-Roy-Palmer/dp/1853155489

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