Usually books are reviewed within a year or less of their publication. In keeping with tradition, this review focuses on the latest 1999 supplement to Babitsky and Sewall's primary text, published in 1992. The primary 1992 text is included to contrast it to the recent supplement.
Babitsky and Seawall have given the independent medical evaluation (IME) physicians and functional capacity evaluators (FCE) an invaluable tool necessary for understanding the Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, its use in the disability determination process, and, more important, its flaws in the rating process. The first chapter details the origin of scheduled awards in the disability determination process and how the Guides is used to reduce or remove scheduled awards. Chapter 2 details the medical uses of the Guides, and Chapter 3 describes the flaws in validity and...
