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By Michael Benatar. 483 pp. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2006. $145. ISBN 978-1-58829-627-6.

The expression "Don't judge a book by its cover" can be paraphrased in the case of Benatar's book as "Don't judge a book by its preface." The preface of Neuromuscular Disease does not do justice to the book's content. In the six-page introduction, Benatar reasons that those of us in the field of neuromuscular disorders are not practicing evidence-based medicine because we are not interpreting the literature correctly. He asserts that we "know less . . . than we perhaps realize" because of "the limitations of clinical investigators' knowledge of study design" and because "those who read the literature have limited ability . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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