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CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2002

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I am currently serving as chief resident at a community teaching hospital based internal medicine residency program. Throughout my 12+ years of education and training, I have never encountered a better text on any subject. I have never seen a better balance between brevity and completeness, practicality and theory, data intensity and readability. Interns in my program are currently required to read this text cover to cover during their year of training. I still use the text at least weekly. At $45 (which is less than the price at our nearby university bookstore) every training internist and family practitioner should have a copy of this book. In addition, this would be the perfect medical text for non internists who occasionally need a brief summary of a medical topic. Buy this book, you wont be sorry.

I am a 3rd year medical student on my clinical rotations and bought this book mainly on the reviews here. Unfortunately, I am very disappointed in this book. It is a big book in the lange's tradition. One might think it is full of everything a medical student would need, diagnosis with differential, and treatment. Unfortunately, the explanation for disease is usually elementary at best. For a lay person this book would be great. However for a med student, doc, PA, or nurses etc this is just too basic. For instance if you were wondering what drugs cause pancreatitis, don't look here! It just says drugs can cause pancreatitis. This book is missing tons of details! You are far better off with the Washington manuel or Harrison's. Leave this one off your list, and save the money!

This is a comprehensive text. It is understandable and easy to find what your looking for. It gives basic information on a wide swath of diseases and conditions. I get a new one each year.

Time-honored annual which offers the backbone of how illnesses are treated by scientifically-oriented medicine today. I've bought it since about 1977 and I don't leave home without it!

Without a doubt, this is one of the best paperback books on current medical diagnoses and treatments that I had ever used. Certainly, the book does not go into DEEP detail like Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, but the two books have different goals. I would recommend Harrison's for extreme depth of learning and I would recommend CMDT to help you slug it out through your day at the hospital or clinic. I refer to this book more than any other because the depth of information is good for every day practice, and it is written extremely well. In fact, it is a pleasure to read over when you have time to pass.

This is an excellent book--as a medical student I have found it invaluable. I have no idea what futuredoc is talking about in his review---this book has many pertinent details. Regardless, the purpose of this book is not to be encyclopedic, but instead to give the reader a brief yet detailed synopsis on specific disease entities. If you want to know everything, then obviously you should go to Harrisons. But carrying Harrison's around is impractical for most people, and it is nice to glance at a text in-between patients when you need to look something up, or brush up on something you haven't seen in a while or can't remember off the top of your head.

Additionally, an important detail to remember is that this text is updated yearly, and has a reasonable enough price to consider buying it at least every other year to keep up with all of the ever-changing aspects of General Internal Medicine.

I highly recommend this book with no hesitation to anyone interested in a basic Internal Medicine Text that is still detailed enough for clinical use.

THis book is exactly hitting the major point. Unbelievably well organized and not overwhelmingly concise or detalied. Most of the authors are from UCSF and they should take the credit for refining the current treatments so far, other than their major contribution to the modern research medicine.

Despite the fact that user-flexibility was not uppermost on the minds of its designers, the "CMDT on CD-ROM" is a quality companion for the medically inclined. Both medics and medical scientists may find this software irresistible. Detailed diagnostic and therapeutic descriptions, which spanned across hundreds of diseases and disorders were provided in a clear and sequential order.
The contents of this CD-ROM are updated annually, and although it would be nice to own the most recent copy, one would not be lagging too faraway with any issue that is not more than five years off the pace.

this is a compleate and the best book for medicine a student can buy

As a full time NP student and registered nurse, I need to be able to cut through a lot of information as quickly as possible. The book is referenced logically and I have not had any difficulty in finding what I am looking for. I appreciate that the language is not too technical and the suggested therapy is outlined and detailed. I have used Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2002 for assignments and look forward to using it in my practice.