New Hope for the Handicapped: The Rehabilitation of the Disabled from Bed to Job

Physicians are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that responsibility to their patients does not end with immediate treatment of a specific illness or disability. Many chronic diseases and irremediable handicaps require of their victims a social, vocational and economic adjustment in which the physician is called on to participate to the fullest extent of his knowledge and experience. There is a broad and varied series of technics, grouped together under the term "rehabilitation," which is available to help the physician realize his greatest usefulness; authors Rusk and Taylor describe these technics fully and clearly in their book.

While valuable also as a manual of rehabilitative procedures, the book will be of incomparable benefit to the' average physician even if it merely calls his attention to the fact that these procedures exist. Private and public rehabilitation agencies report that only about 2 per cent of referrals come from physicians; many