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Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics
3rd ed, Robert L. Kane, Joseph G. Ouslander, Itamar B. Abrass, 542 pp, $32, ISBN 0-07-033473-0, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill International Book Co, 1994.
Frank S. Celestino, MD, Reviewer
Bowman Gray School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(12):1100.
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Today there is an ever-increasing number of excellent textbooks on geriatric medicine, from large reference works to simple handbooks. Such was not the case in 1984, when the first edition of Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics was initially published. Kane, Ouslander, and Abrass were among the first to realize the need for a practical, easy to use, and inexpensive paperback that focused almost exclusively on those issues that make the care of the elderly different, if not unique. Unlike many early books containing the word "geriatrics" in the title, this text has always avoided the trap of becoming a truncated internal medical treatise on problems seen more commonly in the elderly population. Rather, virtually the entire volume is devoted to aspects of clinical care unique to older patients— aspects that are poorly discussed or omitted entirely in standard texts.
The second edition, published in 1989, saw a substantial expansion and update
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