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edited by Mark N. Ozer, MD, 352 pp, with 15 illus, $60, ISBN: 0-750-6700-53, Woburn, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000.

Arch Neurol. 2001;58:1163.

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Patients with chronic neurologic diseases represent a growing segment of the population whose management is usually neglected by traditional neurologic education. This multiauthored text provides an epidemiologic background and framework with which to manage the ongoing issues facing those with chronic neurologic disease. We in neurology need to move away from simply diagnosing diseases to directing their ongoing care, and this is a much-needed synopsis of the philosophy and approaches to management of chronic disease.

The reader will immediately note the departure from the more common textbook approach of diagnostic neurology to one that provides the reader with a philosophy of care that encourages a multidisciplinary approach and "partnership" with the patient. Those involved in rehabilitation will find this a reasonable extension of principles, but the general acute care neurologist will find much of the material new.

The first chapter provides an excellent, well-written overview of the epidemiology of chronic . . . [Full Text of this Article]