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Book review
Controversies in Rheumatology.
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Controversies in Rheumatology. Edited by D A Isenberg and L B Tucker. (Pp 180; £49.95). London: Martin Dunitz, 1997. ISBN 1-85317-395-9.
It has been said of cardiology that no medical discipline enjoys such a wealth of high quality data, which in turn are routinely ignored in practice. Rheumatology can be considered the opposite. As a group, we tend to enthusiastically accept preliminary and incomplete data as definitive. The pathogenesis of this optimism is our difficulty as a discipline …