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Article: Problems in Anesthesia: Preoperative Evaluation in an Era of Cost Containment
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- Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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Problems in Anesthesia: Preoperative Evaluation in an Era of Cost Containment
Volume 9, Number 2
ISBN: 0889-4698
Lee A. Fleisher and Donald S. Prough
Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1997, 127 pp. $38.00
This monograph examines the most common medical problems, as encountered by anesthesiologists, and puts them into the perspective of preoperative assessment. We now practice medicine under the scrupulous eye of "cost containment." Thus, the book encourages physicians to treat patients by first using the "art of medicine," and secondly, subsequent laboratory testing if necessary. In reading this book, one is inspired to ask, "What additional information will this test give me? Do I need ...