Review by Kathy Lyon (Click on stars for an explanation)

You may purchase this book on Amazon.com.

The opening chapter of this book (Self Assessment) will take you right back to high-school/college math. The subsequent chapters bring you further along that same path, teaching you, the reader, how to interpret mathematical numbers and symbols. Explaining how numbers are written or spoken is an excellent method to remember how to interpret drug dosages.

For those who are not skilled in math, this book, and its simplification of math, will be of great value. I am always in favor of learning how to work out a problem rather than how to look it up.

The educational value of the book increases as you progress through the chapters. There are very few tables for you to turn to in order to get a conversion answer—the book teaches you how to work out the answer yourself.

This would be a good teaching tool for your technicians, perhaps with a test at the end so you can evaluate their calculation skills.

Wiley-Blackwell publishers (2009).

Paper cover, 425 pages, some black-and-white illustrations.

ISBN: 978-0-8138-2363-8.

(Editor's note: See also the VSPN review of this book.)