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Article: Eating Disorders
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Eating Disorders Medical Management of Eating Disorders C Laird Birmingham, Pierre Beumont. New York (NY): Cambridge University Press; 2004. 289 p. US$55.00.
Reviewer rating: Excellent
In any comprehensive eating disorders program, the internist, an important member of the eating disorders treatment team, should ideally medically manage the eating disorder. Unfortunately, this ideal situation is the exception rather than the rule, and an internist is seldom found on the eating disorders treatment team. This is partly owing to shortage of physicians and partly to lack of adequate funding. The timely appearance of this book provides the psychiatrist, the family physician, and the allied ...