Expert Answer: Skin diseases

Author: Wang Xuemin
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-11-02
Features: With the improvement of people's material and cultural lives, once they fall ill, they are no longer satisfied with just visiting a doctor and getting medicine. People want to understand how their illnesses develop, how they are diagnosed, how they are treated, and how they can be prevented. Of course, this is also related to changes in the disease spectrum. In the past, if someone had lobar pneumonia, a few injections of penicillin would cure it. If someone had night blindness, taking some cod liver oil pills would solve the problem. As for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, people were not very concerned. Because the illness was over, everything was fine, why worry about it later? But modern illnesses are different. Many diseases require long-term treatment, and some even need lifelong treatment. Many diseases not only require injections and medication but also dietary therapy and psychological adjustment. Therefore, people naturally need to understand the relevant knowledge about these diseases.
Shanghai Science and Technology Literature Press, taking this into consideration, has newly published a series called "" (Registration Fee Series). The price of each book is exactly the same as the registration fee for a regular outpatient visit at municipal hospitals, hence the name. The "" selects common and frequently occurring diseases, with relevant experts writing about the origins, diagnosis, treatment, care, and prevention of each disease. It thoroughly explains all possible questions that patients or their families might have. Each book contains over 100,000 words, including hundreds of entries, presented either in a question-and-answer format (one question, one answer) or in chapters and sections, with one topic per paragraph, making it easy to understand. Moreover, the authors are experts in their respective fields, so they are very clear about what patients or their families need to know. Therefore, the selection of topics and writing are highly relevant to the needs of readers.
The combination of content and form, the "" truly has unique qualities. We believe that after reading these books, patients or their families will be able to clarify their doubts, and even healthy people will find them helpful in preventing diseases and strengthening their health.