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Current Therapy in Internal Medicine
3rd ed, edited by Jerome P. Kassirer, 1824 pages, $99, ISBN 1-55664-247-4, Philadelphia, Pa, BC Decker Inc, 1991.
James F. Peggs, MD, Reviewer
Department of Family Practice University of Michigan Medical Center Ann Arbor, Mich
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(3):287.
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This is the third edition in what has proven to be a successful series of clinical therapeutic texts. As with the preceding editions, this work is focused on therapeutics and serves as a useful and quick reference for the practicing physician dealing with common medical diagnoses. As stated in the preface of the book, some chapters describing treatments for specific disease entities were selected from previously published subspecialty books (namely, Current Therapy in Cardiovascular Disease and Current Therapy in Nephrology and Hypertension). Even these particular chapters have been updated with the latest information by the time of printing. The editor, Dr Kassirer, has gathered an impressive group of contributing authors who bring together their knowledge and collective experience in discussing a broad range of adult medicine topics.
The scope of the text is extensive enough that this reviewer was unable to read the book cover to cover. However, I reviewed
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