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The Effective Clinical Neurologist
2nd ed, by Louis R. Caplan and Joshua Hollander, 290 pp, $49.95,
ISBN 0-7506-7226-9, Woburn, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann Publications, 2001.
Arch Neurol. 2002;59:1040-1041.
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My paranoid delusion was that I was asked to review this unusual paperback
with the expectation that my critique would be mean and amusing. So I sat
back, unsheathed my red pen, and discovered to my dismay that although I had
come to prey, I remained to cheer.
This is the second edition for the senior author. Both are well known,
effective teachers in academic centers separated by a safe noncompetitive
distance. Their writing style is straightforward, authoritatively rational,
but never professorially pedantic. Their conversational style permits easy
expression of their own differences of opinion. Here is a series of coordinated
scholarly essays, salted with clinical case anecdotes and summary principles,
and peppered with pertinent quotations from other authors. The special spin
for neurology is well defined but many ideas are pertinent to all fields of
medical practice; "Ten Commandments of Doctoring" on the last page is a tidy
reminder . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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