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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 80:307-8 (1998)
© 1998 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Book Review

RUNNING INJURIES. Edited by Gary N. Guten. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 1997. $55.00, 283 pp.

Peter Jokl, M.D.

We are living in an era in which the financiers of managed health care deny the need for specialization, much less subspecialization, in medicine. What we are told, essentially, is that the expansion of medical science and knowledge is no longer cost-effective. This period in medicine may well be similar to the Dark Ages, when too much knowledge was considered dangerous. This book reflects the belief that only a specialist would be knowledgeable about the syndromes, illnesses, and injuries affecting runners as well as about the quirks and eccentricities involved in caring for the special needs of these patients. To know less would mean that one accepts care that is less than optimum.

Most of the information that is needed to provide treatment to this challenging group of individuals is concentrated in this single volume. The book consists of twenty chapters, each written by a unique set of authors. Information . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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