The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2010 (Print, Website, and Mobile) (The 5-Minute Consult Series) [Hardcover]

Frank J. Domino (Editor), Robert A. Baldor (Editor), Jeremy Golding (Editor), Jill A. Grimes (Editor), Julie Scott Taylor (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1605470139 | ISBN-13: 978-1605470139 | Publication Date: May 27, 2009 | Edition: Eighteenth

Completely updated and revised, The 5-Minute Clinical Consult, 2010 provides rapid-access information on the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of over 1,000 medical conditions. This best-selling clinical reference is now packaged with an enhanced, quarterly-updated Website and a quarterly-updated Mobile version of the book, to ensure instant point-of-care access to information in whichever format best suits your needs.

This edition has two new Associate Editors and includes 11 new topics and 10 new treatment algorithms. Other new highlights include behavioral medicine downloads (cognitive behavior therapy, meditation, relaxation techniques, yoga, etc.); more evidence-based medicine ratings; additional complementary and alternative medicine material; and updated ICD-9 codes highlighted within the text.

A companion Website contains fully searchable content of the book with links to PubMed, plus additional topics not covered in the print book. The Website also offers over 1,000 English and Spanish patient handouts from AAFP; full-color images; videos of medical procedures and physical therapy; and Facts & Comparisons A to Z Drug Facts monographs with monthly updates. The Website is updated quarterly with new content, new medical procedure videos, more diagnostic images, e-mail alerts, and more.

The 5-Minute Clinical Consult, 2010 package also includes a Mobile version of the full content of the book, with quarterly updates.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1536 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Eighteenth edition (May 27, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1605470139
• ISBN-13: 978-1605470139
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.6 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #692,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jill Grimes, MD, practices family medicine in Austin, Texas. She is a clinical instructor for UMASS Medical School through an innovative internet-based ethics course for medical students. Dr. Grimes is passionate about all types of preventative medicine- from nutrition to sexually transmitted diseases. She'd much prefer to help her patients lose weight and create healthy life habits than add on more prescriptions to treat their high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes, and she practices what she preaches.

Dr. Grimes loves creating and thinking outside the box- whether it's in medicine or in her role as a girl scout leader or mother. She and her daughters have been involved with scouting for seven years (not counting Dr. Grimes' own scouting days as a youth.) Favorite badge work? Anything with a craft or outdoor activity, or a combination such as creating a pressed flower collection during a fun hike. The Grimes family loves to be creative in the kitchen as well, always on the quest for a new fruit smoothie.

Pet peeve? Fast-food medicine! We need to stop popping pills for problems that life style modifications will solve. Medicines are wonderful and necessary, but let's use them as either a temporary or at least second-line solution.

Dr. Grimes wrote Seductive Delusions-how everyday people catch STDs, to try a different approach to STD education. We have plenty of accurate data and educational handouts out there, but real stories impact with far more power. Most people believe STDs lurk in dark corners of our society, but any primary care physician will tell you the population they treat includes successful, educated men and women across the board!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Surprise!! Index "off by a few pages", August 26, 2009

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Susan W. Hawn (GA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2010 (Print, Website, and Mobile) (The 5-Minute Consult Series) (Hardcover)

I bought this directly from a sales person at a CME meeting--it would have been nice if he had told me that there was an Erratum inside the cover stating that the index WAS WRONG and cut me a large deal on the book.

No algorithm or 5-Minute entry at all for abdominal pain, acute headache, nephrolithiasis, thyroid nodule or goiter among many other common entities. Unlike Ferri, no specific dosages of migraine meds, just general therapeutics so have another reference handy.

If you want good algorithms for common problems check out "Common Medical Diagnoses: An Algorithmic Approach."

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely a necessity, August 8, 2009

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This review is from: The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2010 (Print, Website, and Mobile) (The 5-Minute Consult Series) (Hardcover)

This book is great for me as a FNP in the fast tract of the ED. It is fast, easy and concise. It works great in my Blackberry. A must have for anyone in family medicine and with the ability to put on a blackberry or pda it is a great resource at your fingertips.

5.0 out of 5 stars The5 minute consultant, October 13, 2010

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This review is from: The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2010 (Print, Website, and Mobile) (The 5-Minute Consult Series) (Hardcover)

This book is a good resource for quick information regarding diseases. It offers a complete overview for the new practitioner.