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Practical Orthopedics
3rd ed, by Lonnie R. Mercier, 454 pp, $52, ISBN 0-8151-5865-3, St Louis, Mo, Mosby—Year Book Inc, 1991.
Douglas G. Browning, MD, ATC, Reviewer
Department of Family and Community Medicine The Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(4):312-313.
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My knowledge in primary care orthopedics and sports medicine has been derived from my family practice residency and sports medicine fellowship training, self-learning, and hands-on experience while working with qualified orthopedic surgeons. Most current orthopedic texts are surgically oriented and difficult to read for the primary care physician. There are few texts that focus on the nonsurgical evaluation and treatment of orthopedic problems, particularly as to how they present to primary care health providers.
This text is one of the few available in which the central focus is on primary care orthopedics. It is comprehensive enough to be kept in the primary care physician's office as a reference for common orthopedic problems and presenting complaints, as well as being acceptable for the initial teaching of orthopedics to family medicine residents (as well as to pediatric, internal medicine, and emergency medicine residents), physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and medical students. It is
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