Edited by Lewis H. Millender, Dean S. Louis, and Barry P. Simmons. 308 pp., illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1992. $59.95. ISBN 0-443-08797-0.
Very little formal training in the disposition of workers' compensationcases is provided in today's residency-training programs, nomatter what the specialty. Most physicians who examine and treatpatients covered by workers' compensation have learned aboutthis area of medicine from older colleagues, from experience,and from their own mistakes. Instructional courses are offeredby reputable subspecialty organizations, but the average orthopedicsurgeon, neurosurgeon, or physical medicine specialist wouldmuch rather spend his or her limited continuing-medical-educationtime on a subject that is more exciting or related to a specialinterest. This book attempts to fill part of that gap . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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