Now in its Sixth Edition, this comprehensive text provides pertinent information on medical diagnosis, therapy, lab tests, and health maintenance essential to decision making in primary care medicine. Every chapter has been revised to include more images, tables, and bulleted lists. Practical recommendations that incorporate the best available evidence, expert consensus guidelines, and clinical judgement are listed in bulleted items at the end of every chapter. The dermatology section has been extensively revised for this edition by a new section editor. A companion Website offers the fully searchable text and an image bank. “Doody’s Core Titles™ 2009. ”
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This review is from: Primary Care Medicine: Office Evaluation and Management of the Adult Patient (Hardcover)
I like to read Harrison’s now and then, but it is so genetics and research heavy that I get bored. This book is excellent because it comes from a practical perspective (i. e. for the busy clinician vs. the academic) and it breaks down problems by symptoms. A sample chapter is “The patient with dizziness”. When I see patients with relatively common things that I want to refresh on, I pull out this book. Sometimes it doesn’t have the detail I want, but that’s what I have Harrison’s for and the web. It is DEFINITELY worth the 90 bucks or so it costs to have in the library.
This review is from: Primary Care Medicine on CD: with Quarterly Updates and Critical Review of Important New Studies (Hardcover)
It is a pleasure to find a medical book that took into consideration the practical aspects of a primary physician in his clinic. I’d like to suggest to incorporate into the next edition more visual items (cXR, CT, MRI dermatological, etc. ) as it says that one picture worth a thousand words