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First Edition: 2014

It gives me great pleasure to write a short foreword for this new book on Rapid Review of Hematology.

Hematology is one of the rapidly expanding fields of medicine and emerging as a clinical specialty in its own right. Hematology is difficult to teach at the undergraduate level, as it is a part of the curriculum in Pathology, during which undergraduate students do not have enough exposure to diseases of blood. This results in less attention to hematological diseases at undergraduate level. After many years of teaching undergraduates, we found that undergraduate students either neglect hematology or find it difficult to understand the subject. It is a nightmare for many students especially during examinations. There are many hematology textbooks, but undergraduates face difficulties to refresh their knowledge of hematology during examinations. This encouraged us to write a book to fill the niche, to provide basic information to an undergraduate in a nutshell. With this view in mind, Rapid Review of Hematology is intended for the undergraduates from medical, dental and paramedical fields. Most students are fundamentally “visually oriented”. As the saying “one picture worth thousand words”, it encouraged us to provide many illustrations (e.g. etiopathogenesis, clinical presentation, complications, peripheral blood smear and other relevant laboratory tests).

This book is organized into four sections namely disorders of red cells, disorders of white cells, disorders of hemostasis and clinical scenario.

We recommend that this book not to be used as a hematology textbook rather than a supplement to “Essentials in Hematology and Clinical Pathology” (Authored by Dr Ramadas Nayak, Dr Sharada Rai and Dr Astha Gupta). The concepts of hematology have been oversimplified in this book, but all the information, the student will ever need to know, have been provided. The readers are requested to give more emphasis on word in bold letters that represents the key words to be remembered. The peripheral smear and bone marrow findings have been highlighted in colored background. Boxes have been provided at the sides of main text. These include some of the key points as well as commonly expected questions during examinations. This book can serve as a source of rapid review of hematology.