This is a useful monograph which seeks to make available an unbiased and non-promotional book on the menopause and its management. It does what it sets out do, and will be a useful read for many professionals, and for any woman approaching or experiencing the menopause. There is much to interest, and it is full of excellent common sense. It would be hard not to find something to appreciate. It suffers from being a bit old-fashioned in its approach, in that it fails to inform as much as Bandolier would like.
Some statements are unsupported by evidence.
Quibbles apart, this is worth having on the shelves. Non-professionals will find this of interest also, so it might be valuable for patient bookshelves as well. Clinical Evidence emerged from some ideas about creating an evidence formulary - a bit like the BNF with useful numbers in it. In that sense it really is an enormous undertaking, and its creators and editors are to be congratulated for even trying. It is impossible to do everything at once, so Clinical Evidence will grow and expand and get better.