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Ambulatory Geriatric Care
edited by Thomas T. Yoshikawa, Elizabeth L. Cobbs, Kenneth Brummel-Smith, 572 pp, 29 illus, $49, ISBN 0-8016-6543-4, St Louis, Mo, Mosby— Year Book Inc, 1993.
James P. Richardson, MD, Reviewer
University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(1):21-22.
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As a family physician who treats a significant number of elderly patients (as do most of us), I am often at a loss when I need to find information quickly in the office. While I own several of the major geriatric texts and appreciate their merits, these books are not designed for quick information retrieval. The editors of Ambulatory Geriatric Care must have also recognized this need in their practices, for their new book is useful for such searches. They also recognized that owing to their comprehensiveness, such texts cannot emphasize ambulatory care of the elderly. According to the foreword by Dr T. Franklin Williams, the aim of the new book is to fulfill this need in the geriatric literature: addressing "the aspects of care as seen when the older person comes to her or his doctor's office or a clinic with everyday questions and problems." In 572 readable pages
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