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Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients
by Talmadge E. King Jr, MD, Margaret Wheeler, MD, Alicia Fernandez, MD, Dean Schillinger, MD, Andy Bindman, MD, Kevin Grumbach, MD, and Teresa Villela, MD, 408 pp, $42.95, ISBN-10 007-144-3312, New York, New York, McGraw-Hill Medical, 2006.
Megan Sandel, MD, MPH, Reviewer
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(5):493.
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In the United States today, vulnerable and underserved patients are often sicker when they finally enter the health care system because of adverse factors, such as lack of food, substandard housing, or discrimination. Problems with health care access and delivery only widen these gaps. The notion that medical care of low-income families and other vulnerable populations requires special attention to both social and medical factors that influence child health is relatively new.1 Thirty years ago, even the concept of pediatric care with a primary preventive focus was considered experimental.2
This new manual edited by Drs King and Wheeler again questions whether a new standard of care for vulnerable and underserved patients is necessary. The overwhelming answer is yes, and this book is an outstanding first step to convincing a wide medical audience of this fact.
This book does an excellent job of defining factors both . . . [Full Text of this Article] AUTHOR INFORMATION
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