FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 355:966-967 August 31, 2006 Number 9 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF PDA Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited E-mail When Letters Appear

(Progress in Pain Research and Management. Vol. 35.) Edited by Stephen J. Gibson and Debra K. Weiner. 432 pp. Seattle, IASP Press, 2005. $81. ISBN 0-931092-59-0.

Although few would now agree with the notion that children, medically speaking, are little more than small adults, the proposition that older adults are just older is still accepted. That this thinking continues to dominate clinical practice is supported by reviews of how "physiologically complex" pediatric and geriatric surgery is performed in Iowa. Most pediatric surgery has been performed at just three centers, but geriatric surgery has been performed throughout the state. Pain in Older Persons, a follow-up to and updating of Pain in the Elderly (Seattle: IASP Press, 1996), does a very good job of discussing whether pain in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.