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Edited by John C. Sharpe, MD, and Frederick Marx, Jr., MD. Price, $19.50. Pp 731, with 48 tables. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 330 W 42nd St, New York 10036, 1969.

Robert H. Moser, MD, Reviewer
Wailuku, Hawaii

Arch Intern Med. 1970;125(1):174.

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The medical emergency is the crucible of clinical medicine. It is the white-hot moment of truth when there is no margin for consultation with journals and books or dialogue with colleagues. It is a time for swift, decisive action—when one's head and hands may stand between life and death.

For this reason there are perhaps a dozen books on management of acute medical problems. Internist Sharpe and surgeon Marx and 41 contributors have wrought a skillful text with broad-ranging discussions of most common emergent situations: medical, pediatric, and surgical.

They have adopted a practical format familiar to clinicians. They ask the following questions: "What is it?" "What to look for?" "What to consider?" "What to do immediately?" "What not to do?" "What to expect?" The response forms the text.

Syntax is well-ordered; physiologic explanations are crisp and pertinent; treatment methods are lucid and complete. There are many roads to Rome, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Communications to this Department may be sent directly to Robert H. Moser, MD, the Maui Medical Group, 99 Market St, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii 96793, or to the Chief Editor for transmittal to him.

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