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BOOKS: MEDICAL
ARTHRITIS
The Hospital for Special Surgery Rheumatoid Arthritis Handbook
By Stephen A. Paget, M.D., Michael D. Lockshin, M.D. & Suzanne Loebl
(John Wiley and Sons, 2001)
The Columbia Presbyterian Osteoarthritis Handbook
By Ronald P. Grelsamer, M.D. & Suzanne Loebl (Macmillan, 1996, 1997)
Signed copies available from me through
SignedCopy.com;
also available from
Amazon and Barnes & Noble
The Hospital for Special Surgery Rheumatoid Arthritis Handbook and The Columbia Presbyterian Osteoarthritis Handbook are complete treatment guides to arthritis, including drugs and total hip and total knee replacement surgery.
As science editor of The Arthritis Foundation I worked with many of America’s leading arthritis specialists, as well as other professionals involved in arthritis care: orthopedic surgeons, physiatrists, pain specialists, physical therapists, occupational therapists and social workers. I also learned from patients suffering from the various forms of the disease.
If you must suffer from arthritis today Is a good time. Better and safer painkillers are available as well as specific drugs for gout and even rheumatoid arthritis. Finally scientists started to unravel the genetic basis of some forms of arthritis. Joint replacement surgery has been perfected and today almost no arthritis patient becomes bedridden or ends up in a wheelchair. I myself underwent hip replacement twenty-two years ago and acquired a new knee in 2000. I am happy to report that both were successfully replaced and that I am hiking, swimming, traveling and museum hopping.
Arthritis is a disease of self-care and I am a good example of how useful it is to be a well-informed patient. This is why I wanted to write books about what I had learned.
A medical writer, no matter how careful and skilled, is not a physician. I teamed up with Drs. Steven Paget and Michael Lockshin, on the staff of the Hospital of Special Srgery in New York to write The Hospital for Special Surgery’s Rheumatoid Arthritis Handbook. I did the same with Dr. Ronald P. Grelsamer, an orthopedic surgeon, now on the staff of both the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York and Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn to write The Columbia Presbyterian Osteoarthritis Handbook. The two books were well received by both patients and the medical community.
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Reviewers’ Comments on
The Hospital for Special Surgery Rheumatoid Arthritis Handbook
| This authoritative guide will be useful to health professionals, people afflicted with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and their families. … A cure continues to elude researchers, but medical advances, including new drugs to ease pain and improve movement, advances in surgical procedures and the development of exercise and nutrition regimens, have greatly improved patients’ physical and emotional health. |
| —Publishers Weekly |
Expert Clinicians Stephen Paget and Michael Lockshin have teamed with veteran science writer Suzanne Loebl to provide a definite new-millenium handbook for sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis, their families and those who care for them. This splendid volume is easily understandable, uses real-life situations as examples and is far more up-to-the-minute than other such books. From sexuality to surgery it offers practical and science based advice. |
| —Charles M. Plotz, M.D., Editor-in-Chief, Rheuma21st.com |
The Hospital for Special Surgery, or HSS as it is affectionately known, is one of the world’s premier and fabled centers for arthritis. … The authors include two of its most beloved physicians … they are doctor’s doctors. … This handbook represents therefore the very best we can do … it is a must. |
| —Mathew Liang, M.D., Brigham & Women’s Hospital |
Reviewers’ Comments on
The Columbia Presbyterian Osteoarthritis Handbook
| If you suffer from arthritis you might want to scurry down to your favorite bookstore for a copy of this information-loaded little gem. |
| —The Sun Times, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina |
An excellent reference for patients. |
| —Stephen L. Burnstein, D.O., Fellow, American College of Rheumatology |
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EARLY BOOKS ON SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
Suzanne Loebl’s early books are out of print, but copies may be found on the web, in libraries and with used book dealers.
The Nurse’s Drug Handbook
By Suzanne Loebl & George Spratto, M.D., with Estelle Heckheimer, R.N.
(1978–1997)
This handbook went through seven editions (total sales over 350,000 copies) and improved the safety of the administration of medication by nurses in and out of hospital settings.
Why Can’t We Have a Baby? An Authority Looks at the Causes and Cures of Childlessness
By Albert Decker, M.D. & Suzanne Loebl (Dial Press, 1978)
Published the week the first test tube baby was born, this book not only provided a road map to the manifold problems of Infertility but also gave moral support to those affected.
Conception, Contraception: A New Look
By Suzanne Loebl (McGraw-Hill, 1975)
John Rock MD, a Roman Catholic and father of the birth control pill said that contception/contraception are like the two side of the same coin. The book of the same title explores the quest for understanding conception and addresses birth control and population issues for young adults long before it became the norm.
Exploring the Mind: Man’s Search for Mental Health
By Suzanne Loebl (Abelard-Schuman, 1968)
Not so long ago the mentally ill were kept in chains and treated like common criminals. The book tells the story of the giants to whom we owe our current understanding of mental health.
Fighting the Unseen: The Story of Viruses
By Suzanne Loebl (Abelard-Schuman, 1967)
Explores the discovery of virus and the partial conquest of the diseases they cause.
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