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Previous Volume 333:1789-1790 December 28, 1995 Number 26

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Third edition. Edited by Paul S. Auerbach. 1506 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 1995. $157. ISBN 0-8016-7044-6.

Many decades ago, a victim of a mountain-climbing accident was brought into a hospital in the Pacific Northwest. The doctor on duty remarked, "It is a good thing he had the accident right outside the hospital, or he wouldn't have survived." The mountaineer had fallen on a remote mountain in the Cascades, and the evacuation had taken several days — a testimony to the practice of wilderness medicine long before the term came into use in the 1970s.

The wilderness is shrinking, and access to it is increasing. Climbers on Denali (Mount McKinley) have been known to take out cellular . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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