CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2009 (LANGE CURRENT Series) (Paperback)

~ Stephen J. McPhee (Author), Maxine Papadakis (Author)
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The #1 annually updated text in internal medicine -- trusted, authoritative, and essential to daily practice

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"This book has the benefit of being updated yearly and thus has stood the test of time for recognizing what is helpful and what works. It is well worth the price and a great addition to a primary care practitioner's library."--Doody's Review Service

CMDT delivers the most current insights into signs, symptoms, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment for over 1,000 diseases and disorders. Turn to any topic, and you'll find on-the-spot, evidence-based answers that reflect the most recent developments in diagnosis and treatment. This concise, authoritative reference gets you up to speed--fast--on the latest medical advances, prevention strategies, cost-effective treatments, and more.

Putting you and the experts on the same page:

• Comprehensive coverage of inpatient and outpatient care, focusing on the diagnostic tools relevant to your day-to-day practice
• Full review of all primary care topics, including gynecology, obstetrics, dermatology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, psychiatry, neurology, toxicology, and urology
• Only text with an annual review of advances in HIV treatment
• “Essentials of Diagnosis” for most diseases/disorders
• Hundreds of quick-access drug treatment tables, with indexed trade names and updated drug prices
• ICD codes featured on inside covers
• Diagnostic and treatment algorithms present important information in an at-a-glance style
• Up-to-date references provide peer-reviewed, evidence-based information

New to this edition:

• Color insert expanded to 16 pages
• Latest developments in HIV infection, including new drugs, recommended treatment regimens, and antiretroviral drug resistance
• All new chapter on hemostasis and antithrombotic therapy
• Completely revamped End of Life Chapter, now called Palliative Care & Pain Management to reflect its new emphasis
• Sections on asthma (includes 2007 NAEPP guidelines) and palpitations
• More algorithms throughout and increased coverage of Canadian and International Guidelines

About the Author

Stephen J. McPhee, M.D. and Maxine Papadakis, M.D. are professors of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1728 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 48 edition (October 2, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071591249
• ISBN-13: 978-0071591249
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.2 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,488 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars concise and readable review/ update book, May 28, 2009

By	C. V. Atencio "in training" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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I had a prior edition of this book and was very satisfied with it. As a general review it is fast and detailed enough. I was taking the USMLE tests back then. Now I am doing my residency training, and I am in Psychiatry; but I still need an updated source to review about other problems that my patients may have. It is not as detailed and slow to read as other texts (Farreras-Rozman, Harrison) and still does the job.

22 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not a good book on medicine., November 16, 2008

By	Dr. M. Kumar "book junkie" (Warwick, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book with the hope of finding a good upto date review of medicine. it fell far short from this. The book is VERY dense with no diagrams pictures or histology. The heamatology pictures are in one corner along with other pictures of rheumatology and infectious diseases, and not with the relevant chapters. I have read the cardiology section of the book, and i just saw one paragragh on CRT, the antiarrthymic drugs are bunched up together, with no drug-drug interaction, no mention of metabolism and there are no pros and cons of using each drug in a particular situation/condition,and there is no mention of how to follow up patients with a particular condition. There is also no mention of levosimendan in heart failure, GP2b/3a etc. Let there be more flow charts and pictorial representation(the latter point being well illustrated in kumar and clark and davidson). i hope the authors will realize this and they will put more flesh to the bones. kindly please include ECG and echo pictures so as to not only enhance the book, but i think no cardiology section can be written without the same. I am also not quite sure what are the chapters of OBG/GYN and physciatry their for,along with with cost price of drugs being included {sheer waste of valuable space} for this book is NOT SUPPOSED to be doing the job of BNF or tarsons. Since it seems the book is directed at the medics and certainly the docs from the above mentioned speciality are not going to use this as their reference book. LET THIS BOOK BE PLEASE BE DIRECTED TO THE NEEDS OF ONLY ONE SUBSET OF THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY ie INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENTS/ PHYSICIANS, for otherwise it looses its sense of purpose and its true potential at becoming AN OUTSTANDING TEXT OF ITS TIME.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars readable, comprehensible, April 24, 2009

By	Ismail Savas - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book covers all the thing that I am interested. I am pulmonologist, sometimes I need some information about another medical subjects except pulmonology. At this point this book helps me very much. It has a broad spectrum in internal medicine. I like to read this book. You can not read from the starting page in textbook. But I can easily read this book .


I advised this book to my friends.

Ismail Savas MD , Professor of Pulmonology from Ankara, Turkey