How a physician understands, interacts, and communicates with a patient with musculoskeletal low back pain will have a powerful impact on the course of care and outcome, regardless of the diagnosis. The authors of the new second edition of Low Back Pain provide a unique and valuable perspective on the non-surgical management of this potentially disabling condition.

Pub. Date: November 2007
ISBN: 978-1-883595-34-0
Format: Paperback, 360 pages. 

What is the relationship between health care costs and quality? Are employees really getting better care in return for their increased costs? How can the process of providing medical care to employees be better managed? This book will help you find the answers.

Pub. Date: 1992
ISBN: 1-9623864-8-0
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages. 

A new edition for this book was published in March 2007. Please follow the included link to be directed to the latest edition. Thank you.

Fitness for Work: The Medical Aspects, Fourth Edition

 

Alice Hamilton, the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard Medical School, said she chose medicine as a career not because she was scientifically minded but because, as a doctor she could go anywhere she pleased and be quite sure that she would be useful. Her commitment to making her life count led her to combined roles as scientific researcher, skillful negotiator, labor organizer, and vocal and tireless crusader for social reform. In Exploring the Dangerous Trades, she recounts the story of her remarkable life with wit and forthrightness. Includes Foreword by noted occupational medicine historian Jean Spencer Felton, MD.

Pub. Date: 1942
ISBN: 1-883595-04-5
Format: Paperback, 433 pages. 

This unique book is the ideal companion to the AMA Guide to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment. Dr. Gregory Smith reveals his strategies for constructing, formatting, and writing winning workers comp reports under every state and Federal system.

It helps you with using and understanding medical terminology and composing your report so lawyers, judges and insurance claims personnel can easily follow complicated medical reasoning, as well as teaches you the four Rs of a winning report: Rateable, Readable, Reliable, and Ready. Also included are tips on scheduling, conducting patient interviews and properly recording and translating medical observations into pertinent legal descriptions.

Designed for self instruction, this book will help you build a reputation for writing clear, and effective reports whether you are drafting your first workers comp report or trying to improve your level of skill. Case studies throughout the text let you practice and apply what you have learned. In addition, an examination at the end of the book test your new skills. The workers compensation report you prepare could be one of several submitted for the same patient. Make sure yours is the most persuasive.

 

New discoveries in how cells change to become seeds of cancer have profound implications for the health of workers and others exposed to environmental carcinogens. The development of these technologies is traced here for the first time in the context of Dr. Irving J. Selikoffs agenda for prevention and treatment in occupational and environmental medicine. Original papers and commentary by Dr. Selikoff, and an international spectrum of leading experts, explore the changing nature of occupational and environmental oncology. Specific agents and methods, including the possible role of viruses and genetic testing, are shown to provide not only scientific opportunities, but also ethical challenges.

Pub. Date: 1998
ISBN: 1-883595-18-5
Format: Hardcover, 184 pages. 

OUT OF PRINT This book provides an overview of the concepts and models of disablement and the major US and Canadian disability systems. Particular attention has been paid to the definitions and terminologies inherent to each system and to the evaluating and reporting requirements each system poses to the disability examiner.

Pub. Date: 2000
Format: Hardcover. 325 pages. 

The Guides Casebook, Second Edition, presents over fifty new and adapted case examples. Use this book to prepare your own evaluations of the cases. Then, compare your assessment to that of the expert, who discusses how they evaluated each case. Order your copy now!

Pub. Date: 2001
Format: Paperback, 400 pages 

Concise introduction to epidemiology. Chapter titles include introduction to epidemiology, basic measurements in epidemiology, observations used in epidemiology, basic methods of study, descriptive studies, cross-sectional studies, case-control studies, cohort studies, experimental studies, clinical studies of disease outcome, making sense out of statistical associations, introduction to multivariate analysis, how to carry out a study, epidemiology and patient care, epidemiology, medical care, and the health of the community, genetic epidemiology, quick review, and answers to problems.

Pub. Date: 2004
ISBN: 0071402586
Format: Paperback, 401 pages. 

SEE UPCOMING THIRD EDITION DUE OUT LATER IN FEBRUARY 2008 (ITEM 29091)

Pub. Date: 1998
Format: Hardcover, 768 pages.