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Exploring Rural Medicine: Current Issues and Concepts
edited by Barbara P. Yawn, Angeline Bushy, and Roy A. Yawn, 332 pp, $49.95 (softcover, $24.95), ISBN 0-8039-4851-4 (softcover, ISBN 0-8039-4852-2), Thousand Oaks, Calif, SAGE Publications Inc, 1994.
Tom E. Norris, MD, Reviewer
University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(6):559-560.
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This book presents a collection of articles about rural medicine by 25 authors on a variety of topics. The work is intended for students and residents who are aspiring to a rural practice and for physicians who are already practicing in rural locations. There are 22 chapters that cover an assortment of topics that are likely to interest future or current rural practitioners. The print is of reasonable size and good quality. There are no illustrations or graphs, but one will find many useful tables. As I read the volume, several grammatical and proofing errors were noted; however, the material is generally quite readable.
The chapters appear to have been selected to represent topics that are thought to be of concern to rural physicians. Starting with a general discussion of the unique nature of rural practice, both historically and in the future, the editors then selected articles dealing with obstetrical
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