This reference for medical coders lists the CPT codes, descriptions, and guidelines that describe procedures and services performed by physicians and other health care professionals. Guidelines and code lists are given in sections on evaluation and management, anesthesia, surgery, radiology, pathology and laboratory, medicine, Category II codes, and Category III codes. About 70 pages of appendices offer code summaries, code modifiers, and clinical examples. This edition provides a new 23-page section of b&w anatomical illustrations. Also new is an expanded alphabetical index that includes listings by procedure and anatomic site, and lists procedures and services by their commonly known eponyms or other designations. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Abe Landau s near-idyllic life growing up in Wilczyn, Poland in the 1920s and 30s was filled with all the joys of youth attending cheder school, playing and picnicking with friends, working with his father and spending holidays with his loving family. Little did he know that his world would soon crumble around him. In 1940 the town s Jewish families were rounded up and transported to a ghetto in Zagorow. The following year, an SS man burst into Abe s home, grabbed him and threw him into the back of a truck bound for a labor camp in Inowroclaw. The sight of his mother chasing the truck and falling beneath the spray of machine-gun fire would be his final image of her or of anyone in his immediate family. Abe spent the next five years in labor and concentration camps throughout the Reich a slave for the Nazi machine committed to exterminating him and millions of other Jews. He emerged from the nightmare a man of faith and endurance, his spirit still alive after surviving death marches, starvation, beatings and brutal transports in cattle cars crisscrossing Europe. Starting anew in the United States, Abe rebuilt his life as a tailor cantor, activist and founder of the Holocaust Memorial in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Abe s journey is a bittersweet story of survival, a study of the strength of the human spirit and a graphic portrayal of man s inhumanity to man. As the number of accounts that bear testimony to the horrors of the Holocaust grows increasingly finite, it becomes all the more important for us, now, to seek out stories such as Abe s and learn what we can from them.

A tale loosely based on the story of John Walker Lindh follows the experiences of a seemingly ordinary American family that is torn by the forces of history, politics, and faith, a situation that compels a young man to join the Taliban.

This resource from the American Medical Association is a current procedural terminology (CPT) codebook containing official coding guidelines developed by the CPT editorial panel and a listing of numerical codes for reporting the medical, surgical, and diagnostic services performed by physicians. Organized numerically, each section is divided into subsections with anatomic, procedural, condition, or descriptor subheadings. Symbols indicate which procedure numbers are new to the 2011 edition, and where descriptions have been revised. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)