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Instructions For Patients
5th ed, by H. Winter Griffith, 598 pp, $48.75, ISBN 0-7216-4930-0, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders Co, 1994.
Alex Sherriffs, MD, Reviewer
University of California— San Francisco
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(11):1013.
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Organizing patient education in busy practices remains an unachieved ideal for most physicians. Having a readily available comprehensive collection of materials that requires a reasonable amount of storage space defies most offices. Instructions to Patients offers immediate practical assistance.
The book is well organized for effective use. Five hundred four subjects cover conditions that are commonly encountered in family medicine. Each subject is covered in a single page. Subjects are arranged alphabetically. The six-page index is helpful to physicians and nonphysicians alike. One can quickly learn whether to look under "otitis media" or "ear infection, middle." Each subject includes basic information on the condition, possible treatments, and a section titled "Notify Our Office If." Each page is designed to be copied for distribution to patients, and the book's preface even gives pointers on effective photocopying.
Understanding the language of the text requires at least a high school education and, for
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