Ocular Therapeutics Handbook: A Clinical Manual

Book Review Ocular Therapeutics Handbook: A Clinical Manual, edited by Bruce E. Onofrey, Leonid Skorin, Jr, and Nicky R. Holdeman, 724 pp, with illus, $64.95, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (telephone: 800-638-3030), 2005, ISBN 0-7817-4892-5 Type and Scope of Book: A user-friendly, clinically oriented ocular therapeutics manual geared toward the primary care practitioner. Contents: This second edition by these authors is greatly expanded but has maintained its readability and ease of use. This text will be useful for medical and optometry students, residents, primary care optometrists, and other primary care and emergency department physicians who may be called on to evaluate ocular conditions but who lack the experience of regularly dealing with these conditions to become comfortable with developing a diagnosis and treatment plan. This text bridges the gap between general ocular disease texts and those written for the specialist. Strengths: The text is comprehensive, clinically oriented, and adequately detailed in a problem-oriented format. It is easy to use in a busy clinical setting and includes separate sections for clinical conditions and diagnostic tests. Also, it has codes from the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, and Current Procedural Terminology for easy reference. Deficiencies: Inclusion of the codes and brand name drugs may lead to early obsolescence. The text has no references. Recommended Readership: Medical students, optometry students, residents, fellows, optometrists, and primary care and emergency department physicians. Overall Grading: ##### Dennis W. Siemsen, OD, MHPE, Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn

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