Nine years since the previous edition, the 12th edition of Logan Turner sees Quentin Gardiner join Musheer Hussain as a Dundonian editorial double-act. The book has an inextricably East Coast of Scotland history; Arthur Logan Turner was the first ENT surgeon to become president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The second was Arnold Maran, who edited the 10th edition of Logan Turner and wrote the foreword to the 11th edition 28 years later, marking its move from Edinburgh to Dundee.
The 12th edition honours the book’s original aim of being “a single volume of moderate size”. At 748 pages, it veers on the brink of ‘large’ rather than ‘moderate’ but is nonetheless impressive as an all-in-one, considering the developments and advances that ENT has seen since the first edition in 1924. It is divided into four sections (noses, throats, ears and paediatrics) with an additional small section on radiology. Most chapters include diagrams and tables which break up the text to form interesting and digestible content.
Chapter authorship is diverse; some well-known names, others less so. The writing style is also diverse. The chapters written by experienced authors stand out, incorporating clinical experience and opinion alongside national guidelines, recent updates and select publications. This works very well, with nuances of complex clinical practice coming through, within a limited word count. This is exactly the level of content and wisdom that our junior colleagues need.
In his foreword, Tim Mitchell describes the book as “a comprehensive text that will continue to be relevant to those starting their careers in ENT and for those in related specialties and general practice”.
I wholeheartedly agree. Logan Turner should be every new ENT doctor’s first choice of textbook.
