Edited by Lawrence J. Brandt, with nine others. 1793 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. Philadelphia, Current Medicine, 1999. (Distributed by Churchill Livingstone, New York.) $235. ISBN 0-443-06520-9.
The stated purpose of this book is "to offer the latest clinicalinformation in an easy-to-read-format, thereby aiding the busypractitioner to care for his or her patients." The editors havetried to accomplish this by limiting "chapter content to theessentials of patient care." This ambitious endeavor, however,cannot accommodate all styles of clinical practice. Some clinicianscomfortably rely on empiricism, but others prefer the stateof the art, even if it is rudimentary or uncertain. Whereasmany editors would err on the side of completeness and allowthe reader to decide what is germane, the editors of this . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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