Anticoagulant Therapy in Ischemic Heart Disease

In the past few years numerous medical symposia have been published in book form. These volumes usually consist of the speakers' manuscripts assembled under a single cover and are not really textbooks in the classic sense. They frequently lack important attributes one would expect in a good textbook, which should be concise, readable, and well organized. One reviewer has rather aptly, if not too kindly, referred to them as "instant books." It is only fair to point out that symposium proceedings provide a valuable record for those physicians who are fortunate enough to attend the symposium but are unable to digest and assimilate in a few days an enormous amount of concentrated information. They also permit a physician who is unable to attend to participate vicariously by reading the material at his leisure. They rarely can provide a substitute, however, for a welldesigned book on the same subject. On Jan