The View from the VA

In my last column, I talked in general about the selection of databases available in the Virtual Library, which is available via the VA Intranet at CAVHS. As a reminder, the first click is to the CAVHS homepage. From there, you should click on the Library link. Once the Library homepage loads, you should then click on the Virtual Library link which will take you to the web page that serves as a portal to the resources.

The focus of this column is MD CONSULT, available at: http://home.mdconsult.com/groups/visn1615.html. This product allows the VA user access to a library of professional books via their personal computer. The full content of over 40 standard medical textbooks is searchable individually or collectively, and the fields covered range from Allergy to Urology. There is the added Table of Contents feature, which allows direct access to individual chapters.

Here are the books which are currently available, listed by specialty:

Allery, Asthma & Immunology
Middleton: Allergy: Principles and Practice, 5th ed. 1998 Mosby-Year Book, Inc.

Alternative Medicine
Blumenthal: The Complete German Commission E Monographs; Therapeutic Guide to Herbal Medicines, 1st ed. 1998 American Botanical Council.

Anesthesiology & Pain Management
Miller: Anesthesia, 5th ed. 2000 Churchill Livingstone, Inc.

Cardiology
Braunwald: Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 6th ed. 2001 W.B. Saunders Company

Wagner: Marriott's Practical Electrocardiography, 10th ed. 2001 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Dermatology
Habif: Clinical Dermatology, 3rd ed. 1996 Mosby-Year Book, Inc.

Emergency Medicine
Ellenhorn's Medical Toxicology, 2nd ed. 1997 Williams & Wilkins.

Roberts: Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine, 3rd ed. 1998 W.B. Saunders Company

Rosen: Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, 4th ed. 1998 Mosby-Year Book, Inc.

Endocrinology & Metabolism
Wilson: Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 9th ed. 1998 W. B. Saunders Company.

Family Medicine
Dambro: Griffith's 5-Minute Clinical Consult, 2001 ed. 2001 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Goroll: Primary Care Medicine, 4th ed. 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Noble: Textbook of Primary Care Medicine, 3rd ed. 2001 Mosby, Inc.

Pfenninger: Procedures for Primary Care Physicians, 1st ed. 1994 Mosby-Year Book, Inc.

Gastroenterology
Feldman: Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 6th ed. 1998 W.B. Saunders Company.

Geriatric Medicine
Duthie: Practice of Geriatrics, 3rd ed. 1998 W.B. Saunders Company.

Hematology
Lee: Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology, 10th ed. 1999 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Infectious Disease
Mandell: Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 5th ed. 2000 Churchill Livingstone, Inc.

Internal Medicine
Goldman: Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 21st ed. 2000 W.B. Saunders Company.

Rakel: Conn's Current Therapy 2001, 53rd ed. 2001 W.B. Saunders Company.

Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics, 30th ed. 2001 Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine.

Nephrology
Brenner & Rector's The Kidney, 6th ed. 2000 W.B. Saunders Company.

Neurology
Goetz: Textbook of Clinical Neurology, 1st ed. 1999 W.B. Saunders Company.

Obstetrics & Gynecology
Gabbe: Obstetrics - Normal and Problem Pregnancies, 3rd ed. 1996 Churchill Livingstone, Inc.

Ryan: Kistner's Gynecology & Women's Health, 7th ed. 1999 Mosby, Inc.

Oncology
Abeloff: Clinical Oncology, 2nd ed. 2000 Churchill Livingstone, Inc.

Pizzo and Poplack: Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology, 3rd ed. 1997 Lippincott-Raven Publishers.

Ophthalmology
Yanoff: Opththalmology, 1st ed. 1999 Mosby International Ltd.

Orthopedic Surgery
Canale: Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, 9th ed. 1998 Mosby, Inc.

Rockwood & Green's Fractures in Adults, 4th ed. 1996 Lippincott-Raven Publishers.

Pathology
Cotran: Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease, 6th ed. 1999 W.B. Saunders Company.

Raven: Clinical Laboratory Medicine, 6th ed. 1995 Mosby-Year Book, Inc.

Pediatrics
AAP 2000 Red Book; Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, 25th ed. 2000 American Academy of Pediatrics.

Behrman: Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 16th ed. 2000 W.B. Saunders Company.

Johns Hopkins: Harriet Lane Handbook, 15th ed. 2000 Mosby, Inc.

Psychiatry
Tasman: Psychiatry, 1st ed. 1997 W.B. Saunders Company.

Pulmonary Medicine
Murray & Nadel: Textbook of Respiratory Medicine, 3rd ed. 2000 W.B. Saunders Company.

Radiology
Juhl: Paul and Juhl's Essentials of Radiologic Imaging, 7th ed. 1998 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Rheumatology
Ruddy: Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology, 6th ed. 2001 W.B. Saunders Company.

Surgery, General
Townsend: Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, 16th ed. 2001 W. B. Saunders Company.

Urology
Walsh: Campbell's Urology, 7th ed. 1998 W.B. Saunders Company.

George M. Zumwalt,
Chief, Learning Resources Service