Author Description

Rothenberg is an internist with a special interest in critical care and emergency medicine who has written and taught extensively. Here he provides practicing lawyers a primary reference with detailed medical information on virtually all major ailments and many less common ones seen in emergency department practice. His topics include legal liability; intrahospital transfers; acute myocardial infarction and chest pain; chest, cardiac, and vascular injuries; respiratory and thoracic, gastrointestinal, pediatric, obstetrical and gynecological, musculoskeletal, and genitourinary emergencies; head and spinal injuries and illnesses; and the emergency management of wounds and burns. He includes line drawings when helpful, practice tips from trial attorney in each chapter, and a glossary that does not indicate pronunciation. No date is mentioned for the earlier editions, the first of which seems to be by Scott Lewis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)