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Robert M. Goldwyn, MD, 255 pp, $20, Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1981.

WILLIAM K. WRIGHT, MD, Reviewer
Houston

Arch Otolaryngol. 1982;108(11):755.

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Here is an important book. This book should be in every plastic surgeon's personal library, and every resident should be required to read it, not once, but many times. The sine qua non of medicine and surgery is taking care of patients. This book studies this important task from the first consultation between the plastic surgeon and his patient through almost all subsequent interactions. Robert M. Goldwyn, chief editor of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal, shares his observations, thoughts, and philosophy based on his many years of experience. The book exhibits the rare combination of extensive accumulated knowledge and an interesting and flowing literary style. Although I have had considerable clinical experience of my own, I have underlined and checked myriads of areas where I found something new or something that, while known to me, was expressed in a particularly apt manner.

The book begins with philosophical observations and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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