Choosing a medical specialist is one of the most important decisions an individual or family will make. Now one source makes the choice easier - THE OFFICIAL ABMS DIRECTORY OF BOARD CERTIFIED MEDICAL SPECIALISTS 1997. The ONLY reference officially endorsed by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), THE OFFICIAL ABMS DIRECTORY OF BOARD CERTIFIED MEDICAL SPECIALISTS combines two renowned reference works Directory of Medical Specialist & the ABMS Compendium of Certified Medical Specialists - into a single, comprehensive & authoritative resource. Users will find accurate & up-to-date professional & biographical information on board-certified specialists practicing in the U.S., Canada & abroad - more than 465,000 biographies, with more than 20,000 new entries added each year. Each of these specialists has undergone three to seven years of specialized education & residency training & passed rigorous certification examinations administered by ABMS-member boards in these specialties: * Allergy & Immunology * Anesthesiology * Colon & Rectal Surgery * Dermatology * Emergency Medicine * Family Practice * Internal Medicine * Medical Genetics * Neurological Surgery * Nuclear Medicine * Obstetrics & Gynecology * Ophthalmology * Orthopaedic Surgery * Otolaryngology, * Pathology * Pediatrics * Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation * Plastic Surgery * Preventive Medicine * Psychiatry & Neurology * Radiology * Surgery * Thoracic Surgery * Urology. Organized by specialty - & geographically within each specialty - this convenient resource will help: * patients & doctors by acting as a "physician locator service" to identify & verify the credentials of specialists & to provide second opinions, * families who have relocated & need help to find board-certified physicians in their new community, * health industry researchers, marketers, & physician recruiters to identify leading practitioners in specialized fields.

This official directory is a database that includes more than 742,000 physician profiles, including their board certification status. This list also features nearly 20,000 physicians in foreign countries who are certified by American specialty boards.

This in-depth look at the indexing specialty field of medicine includes contributions from more than a dozen noted medical indexers. The book features 13 chapters and four parts: Medical Indexers, Medical Indexes, Medical Indexing, and Resources. A directory of medical reference tools and Internet sites is included.

The "Green Book" is the definitive guide to graduate medical education (residency) programs for thousands of medical students, administrators, researchers and librarians. It is the only single published source of programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and is used by students in selecting programs, and by licensing boards for verifying the authenticity of programs presented by physicians. All of the essential information for graduate medical education is included: -- Complete, accurate listings for more than 8,000 ACGME-accredited programs and 1,600 GME teaching institutions -- Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education Institutional and Program Requirements for 113 specialties/subspecialties -- Medical specialty board certification requirements -- Name, address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of all the directors of GME programs -- GME glossary and list of US medical schools -- More than 6,500 revisions to the previous edition

Written by renowned author, Catherine Mullahy, The Case Manager’s Handbook, Fourth Edition, is the ultimate how-to guide for case managers. This practical resource helps case managers build fundamentals, study for the CCM exam, and most importantly, advance their careers after the exam. Using real-life examples and an easy-to-read, conversant style, this reference defines “Best in Class” case management, examines the case management process, and presents practical procedural information. It is an excellent daily reference and training resource for new case managers and seasoned professionals in various setting facing the day-to-day challenges of case management. Certain to become the “go to resource” resource that previous editions have, this Fourth Edition features updated and enhanced chapters, and brand new chapters covering such timely topics as: * Obesity – The New Epidemic * Our Nation’s Multiculturalism and Challenges to Case Managers * Health Literacy and Adherence Issues * Pharmaceuticals – The Ever-Evolving World * Our Aging Population, Medical Advancements and New Case Management Considerations * Direct to Consumer Community-Based Case Management * Continuum Concepts

Part of a series filled with “gratifying detail” about the ancestry of the first US President, this volume contains the tenth-generation descendants. (Robert K. Krick, author of The Smoothbore Volley that Doomed the Confederacy, Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain, and Lee’s Colonels) This is the sixth volume of Dr. Justin Glenn’s comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons, the vast family originated by the immigrant John Washington, who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather of President George Washington. This volume contains the late nineteenth and twentieth century born descendants of John Washington’s daughter, Anne (Washington) Wright and as such transports the reader through many of the major historical events of those eras by providing the stories of the family members who lived through them. Although structured in a genealogical format for the sake of clarity, this is no bare bones genealogy but a true family history with over 1,200 detailed biographical narratives. These in turn strive to convey the greatness of the family that produced not only The Father of His Country but many others, great and humble, who struggled to build that country. “It is surprising that no comprehensive family history has been published. Justin M. Glenn’s The Washingtons: A Family History finally fills this void for the branch to which General and President George Washington belonged, identifying some 63,000 descendants.” —John Frederick Dorman, editor of The Virginia Genealogist (1957–2006) and author of Adventurers of Purse and Person