Brain, Vol. 125, No. 7, 1665,
July 2002
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Book Review |
THE EFFECTIVE CLINICAL NEUROLOGIST, 2ND EDITION
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
THE EFFECTIVE CLINICAL NEUROLOGIST, 2ND EDITION
By Louis Caplan and Joshua Hollander
2001. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann
Price £32.50. pp. 305. ISBN 0750672269.
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This book is a manual for training doctors who want to learn how to become good neurologists. It is written by two very senior, and highly experienced, North American neurologists who know about teaching neurology trainees. The authors, as do I, clearly feel very strongly that the art of clinical neurology should remain an art, and the book consistently reminds us about how to listen to what the patient says and, having taken the history, to look very carefully during the examination for the confirmatory