This compact yet comprehensive handbook will allow emergency staff to investigate and treat hand injuries with confidence, and just as impor tantly, to see at a glance which patients should be referred immediate ly to a specialist hand surgeon. Written in a concise and accessible s tyle, it is illustrated throughout with clear and informative diagrams .

What's life all about? When reading or watching the daily news, or going about our life, we often witness or experience suffering and injustices. Whether it's an Act of God, or some form of human error or cruelty, we have to wonder at why it happens. Why do good people, innocent babies and animals often seem to get hurt through no fault of their own? Why does there appear to be more rudeness and rage than ever before? Even our home, our planet Earth is being hurt possibly beyond any correction. And then, at almost the same time, we wonder if there's a life after we die, and if we will come...