(ACP Women's Health Series.) Second edition. Edited by Karen Rosene-Montella, Erin Keely, Linda Anne Barbour, and Richard V. Lee. 774 pp., illustrated, with CD-ROM. Philadelphia, American College of Physicians, 2008. $84.95. ISBN 978-1-930513-86-0.
All too frequently, a pregnant woman with a preexisting illnessreceives substandard medical care because of her physician'sunfamiliarity with the interactions between disease and thephysiology of pregnancy. Physicians who are not obstetriciansand who are not familiar with these interactions may counsela woman with a clinically significant medical condition to terminatean unplanned pregnancy. Early in this book, the authors declare,"Aggressively treating an acutely ill pregnant woman the sameas an acutely ill nonpregnant patient is, more often than not,the safest scenario for both mother and baby." This theme echoesthroughout Medical Care of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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