A New COPD Paperback

Today I read a very good 160 page book: “100 Questions and Answers approximately COPD” written by Doctor Campion Quinn, a lengthy Island internist. It’s available at half.com for only approximately ten dollars (plus shipping).

It’s divided into ten sections; is printed on bright white paper; and includes an up-to-date list of Web resources for patients with COPD. It includes excellent chapters on smoking cessation, pulmonary rehab programs, and oxygen therapy for COPD. Unfamiliar terms are conveniently defined in the wide margins, next to the text where they are first mentioned.

Helpful comments from a patient named Cecil are scattered all through the book, but I was disappointed that he was never introduced, and the reader never learns much approximately him. I worried that he was an “imaginary friend” of the physician author. Since the book was published that year (2006), it includes discussions of new treatments, such as lung volume reduction surgery (with general results from the NETT study), and tiotropium

Of course, the author is much increasingly optimistic approximately the value and safety of most COPD medications than yours truly.

My primary complaint approximately that book is that it only has 2 diagrams. Dozens of diagrams and photos would greatly enhance the reader’s understanding of COPD. I noticed only a few minor factual errors, such as the view that DLCO tests are done in a body box and that “HEPA air purifiers can be expensive and require that the filter be changed every 3-6 months”.

I plus bought a couple of other new books approximately COPD and plan to read and review them here before I go to the American Thoracic Society assembly in San Diego in a couple of weeks: “Coping with COPD” by Elaine Shimberg and “Life and Breath” by Neil Schachter.

Related Topics: Living with COPD, Quitting Smoking

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Original post by Dr. Enright