TY - JOUR
AU - CHIVERS, ANDREW
AB - one that goes to the other extreme. I read it in an hour. The appropriateness of the information must Whilst some chapters contained valuable and clear include its relevance and its completeness. At this guidelines on the recommended tests, others are too point I must congratulate the authors on what must be sparse to serve as a useful adjunct to the Hall Report. the hardest decision—what to leave out. Perhaps leav- ing every odd numbered page blank is a little generous For example, the outline of the neonatal examination for making notes, but the overall intention to keep the is a checklist of parts of the body to look at (ears, prose pithy and the pages uncluttered is admirable. palate, heart, respiratory system and abdomen etc), Advice is brief and to the point: 'be calm and listen' rather than giving details of the technique of examin- (immediate treatment of the disturbed patient). The ation and the most important abnormalities to be iden- risk is that treatment protocols may tend to be rather tified. The same criticism applies to the description of didactic but this does not seem to be the case—or could screening for visual problems and hearing checks 
TI - Book Reviews
JO - Family Practice
DO - 10.1093/fampra/7.4.343
DA - 1990-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/book-reviews-nJ6vmScGJ0
SP - 343
EP - 343
VL - 7
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -