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By P. S. Auerbach
5th ed, 552 pp, $24.95
Philadelphia, PA, Mosby/Elsevier, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-3230-6813-0

JAMA. 2009;302(15):1705-1706.

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An evaluation of Medicine for the Outdoors raises one of the core questions facing those teaching medicine through classes or written instructional material; ie, what level of medical information should be presented for the target audience? Writing for other physician specialists is easier than teaching the public or persons with a little medical knowledge, unless that teaching is part of a well-defined curriculum. Because of knowledge differences among students, they desire and need a foundation of knowledge that provides selective diagnostic and therapeutic information. This dilemma is amplified when teaching first aid or medical evaluation performed distant from a traditional medical setting, so the common default advice is to "seek professional or more advanced medical care." Another layer of complexity is added when targeting persons who may be in the wilderness without means of rapid evacuation or rescue, necessitating prolonged field management or decisions of whether to arrange evacuation or . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Howard Backer, MD, MPH, Reviewer
California Health and Human Services Agency
University of California at Davis
Sacramento
hdbacker@gmail.com

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