© 2002 Occupational and Environmental Medicine
BOOK REVIEW
Aviation medicine and the airline passenger
Edited by: Cummin and Nicholson (£65.00) 2002. Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0 340 80637 0 (hardback)
Keywords: aviation medicine; airline passenger
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Books on aviation medicine and physiology tend to be written by specialists for specialists. This book is by specialists for generalists and will be of value to all doctors asked by patients for health advice prior to flying. It will also be useful, in advance it is hoped, to doctors asked to help with a patient on board a commercial flight. A distinguished group of authors has been assembled: some from the aviation medicine field and some from other relevant specialties including obstetrics, paediatrics, cardiology, and respiratory medicine. Twenty four chapters are provided: each of about 8–10 pages.
The book begins with an interesting account of the ethical and legal aspects of "Good Samaritan" activity. This is full of sensible advice: the inebriated doctor should disqualify himself from assisting in an emergency! How true. More seriously, the doctor agreeing to act should seek contractual immunity from the captain and if
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