New Books

We have two new books in the Library, one requested by a staff member and one donated.

The first is Primary Care Tools for Clinicians : A Compendium of Forms, Questionnaires, and Rating Scales for Everyday Practice (2005) by Lorraine Loretz. The book cover describes the content as "a unique collection of forms, inventories, rating scales, and measures for primary care providers to use or adapt". An accompanying CD-ROM contains over 200 of the forms in electronic format.

The call number is:

WB
290
L869p
2005

The second book is entitled Overdo$ed America (2004) by John Abramson, M. D. The author is a former family physician on the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School, where he teaches primary care. A review in Publishers Weekly says that Abramson debunks the myth that new technologies and drugs mean "better health care" and that he "makes a powerful and coherent case that American medicine has gone badly astray and needs a new paradigm-one untainted by profits".

The call number is:

W
84
AA1
A161o
2004

Happy Reading