From Library Journal
Rheumatologist Daniel Wallace (The Lupus Book, Oxford Univ., 1996) and medical writer Janice Wallace aim to help fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS; pain in soft tissues) patients feel better, work more easily with their health professionals, and attain a better quality of life. The book, which begins with a brief foreword and endorsement from the Medical and Scientific Committee of the Southern California Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, presents a thorough explanation of the causes and perpetuating factors of FMS. The chapters are compact and often include a helpful table summarizing the information for easy reference. A minor fault is that sometimes medical terms not found in the glossary are used without sufficient explanation. While it appears to be a "primer" on FMS covering all the basics, this book is dry, scientific, and clinical in tone and in fact is written on a more professional level. Allopathic physicians will feel comfortable recommending it to their patients, but it will appeal most to sophisticated readers.
Lisa McCormick, Health Sciences Lib., Jewish Hosp., CincinnatiCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"A clear, comprehensive, and helpful discussion of a puzzling, widespread and misunderstood disorder--and how to deal with it--is Making Sense of Fibromyalgia by Daniel J. Wallace, M.D., former clinical chief of rheumatology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and Janice Brock Wallace. The disorder is characterized by severe fatigue, muscular pain, poor sleep patterns and other symptoms so varied that doctors mistakenly think it's imaginary."--Consumers Digest
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