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Edited by Emilio B. Lobato, Nikolaus Gravenstein, and Robert R. Kirby. 1008 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008. $169. ISBN 978-0-7817-8263-0.

Contemporary anesthesia is an important "safety paradox" of excellent outcome despite routine risk. Although it carries perhaps the greatest potential for hazard for millions of patients annually, anesthesia also has medicine's best track record for the safety of patients. Gone are the days of patients' "taking a bad anesthetic" and nothing more being said. Now the clinician rightly carries the burden of accountability, and nothing less than near-perfection is satisfactory. Even though some interventions in Western medicine are believed — perhaps naively — to have the potential to save thousands of lives if added to conventional practice (e.g., proprietary "care . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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