Published by the American Medical Association, Chicago Illinois, 2013
A new edition of a superb monograph, edited by J. Mark Melhorn, James B Talmage, William E. Ackermann, and Mark H. Hyman, entitled AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Disease and Injury Causation, Second Edition has been published by the American Medical Association. The purpose of the book is to offer health care providers a cogent framework in which to opine whether a condition is work-related or attributable to a specific event, such as an injury. Any physician involved in independent medical evaluations (IME) or caring for patients with injury-related conditions is familiar with this conundrum, especially in the light of sometimes inexact science, vagaries of legal interpretation, and a poor understanding of the evidence by some clinicians. This book makes huge strides to address all of these...
