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By David Hamerman
287 pp, $54.25
Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8692-8

JAMA. 2008;300(19):2314-2315.

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In 2009, geriatrics will mark its centennial as a medical discipline in the United States. Nevertheless, the field still continues to struggle with its identity, its mission, and its very survival, even as the advancing tide of older persons in the United States threatens to inundate and bankrupt the country's health and social care systems. This quandary besets US physicians-in-training. For all the right reasons, these individuals may contemplate careers in geriatric medicine—yet, concerned about their future personal and professional lives and livelihoods, 99% elect to pursue other specialties, perversely perpetuating the status of geriatric medicine as the least popular choice among graduating US medical students.

Amid the maelstrom of doubt and denial, David Hamerman has formulated Geriatric Bioscience, an inspiring, concise, comprehensive, and stimulating primer of the field for aspiring gerontologists, geriatricians, and other physicians who will care for elderly persons. In this relatively slender volume, Hamerman, one of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

William B. Hazzard, MD, Reviewer
Division of Gerontology
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System
Seattle
william.hazzard@med.va.gov

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