The Most Comprehensive and Authoritative Medical Reference for Attorneys

You'll find detailed, hard to find information on hundreds of injuries and disease, complete with diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and medical-legal annotations. Written specifically for the practicing attorney, this valuable tool will help you confidently prepare and present your case.

Easy to Understand for You and the Jury

No matter how involved the medical aspects of an injury or its treatment, you'll be able to understand them all - along with their practical legal implications. The Attorneys' Textbook of Medicine puts you in complete command during the examination and cross-examination of medical experts and enables you to communicate in lay terms that jurors can clearly understand. In addition, backed by thousands of illustrations, diagrams, charts, tables and checklists, this classic research aid is essential for any attorney trying a personal injury, medical malpractice, or workers' compensation case.

New chapters in 2000 included Emergency Life Support Procedures and Alternative Treatment of Cancer.

The Attorneys' Textbook of Medicine provides quick access to explanations of every compensable injury and a wide range of diseases and conditions. It includes the background information you need to confidently prepare complex cases, evaluate injuries and disabilities, present evidence to jurors in language they can understand, and effectively examine and cross-examine medical witnesses.

Extensive medico-legal material includes:

• Concise descriptions of the nature of the accident, diagnosis of the injury, prognosis for recovery, extent of disability, and monetary award
• Four volumes of full color anatomic transparencies of all injuries for use in court, with references to the text
• Evaluation of permanent physical impairment (by the AMA) explains all standards for testing and evaluating injuries
• Practice aids include diagrams and illustrations incorporated throughout the text, lists of key questions, and bibliography.

23 volumes; Loose-leaf; updated four times a year with revisions and supplements.

A new Special Alerts feature provides an overview of 'hot' topics in health and medicine, gleaned from the news media and judged to have possible litigatable potential. The reader is referred to related content in the treatise. This feature appears in Volume 1 and is updated 3 times per year.

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