Stephen McPhee - CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2011

a LANGE medical book

FIFTIETH EDITION

Edited by

Stephen J. McPhee, MD

Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Maxine A. Papadakis, MD

Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Associate Editor

Michael W. Rabow, MD

Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

With Associate Authors

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The editors and authors dedicate this 50th edition of Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment to James (Jim) Ransom, PhD, who for most of its life served as CMDTs sole copy editor.

Interviewed in preparation for this dedication, Jim said:

Finding that job with Jack Lange solved a big problem for me. I was getting my PhD at Stanford at the time and I knew I was a good writer. But I knew I didnt want to teach; I wanted to write. And I knew I had to find a job.... When we married, my wife Julie was an English teacher, and we went on to have five children. We called them the 5 JsJennifer, James, John, Janet, and Joel! So we had a big family to support. My job with Lange was my first and only job. I started working with Lange books straight out of graduate school and continued with the work for my whole career, retiring only in my eighties.

Jack Lange was a good man to work for; he never interfered with my work. He was a true gentleman and a very generous man, as was his wife DeLoris. And Jack was a real doctor, teaching the medical students lucky enough to be assigned to him as a clinical preceptor at UCSF. So he understood what both patients and students needed.

Jim edited and annotated the chapter manuscripts that we sent inhe queried lots and lots of things and sent them back. In so doing, he taught all of us, authors and editors alike, lots and lots about sentence structure, taxonomy, and punctuation (I made my living with commas and semicolons). Jim not only rewrote indecipherable material, he checked terminology and nomenclature, corrected errors, and helped to enforce the Lange concise, structured format and style, and timeliness. In so doing, he gave the multiauthored book a single voice. And, of course, he did much the same in his work across the entire list of Lange preclinical and clinical books.

All of my authors were easy to get along with. These authors were all educated men and women who could write well (usually!). There were no unfixable problems really.

Jim always considered CMDT