This issue of the Journal launches a series of articles on rehabilitation medicine aimed at general practitioners and other doctors who have not specialised in this field. We, and our co-authors, hope to demonstrate that rehabilitation is a dynamic and critical component of the therapeutic continuum, and one that is essential if patients are to regain good quality of life after serious illness or injury.
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- Rehabilitation Programme and Victorian Rehabilitation Research Institute, Melbourne Health and University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC.
Correspondence: peter.disler@mh.org.au
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