Deer's Treatment of Pain An Illustrated Guide for Practitioners.

July 2020 • Volume 131 • Number 1 www.anesthesia-analgesia.org e7 DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004809 D Deer and his fellow editors, Drs Pope, Lamar, and Provenzano have put forth a well-rounded textbook for both the interventional and medically based pain physician. While Dr Deer has been a leader in the field of interventional pain management, he has always expressed the need for multimodal, balanced therapies. The textbook does not delve into specific pain disorders or diagnosis of these disorders as one sees in the seminal texts such as Bonica1 or Melzack/Wall2 but rather the approach to treatments once the problem has been diagnosed. This text is organized well, broken down into 11 separate sections, encompassing 102 chapters. The sections are as follows: