Cecil Medicine: Expert Consult Premium Edition - Enhanced Online Features and Print, 23e [Hardcover]

Lee Goldman MD (Author), Dennis Arthur Ausiello MD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 29, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1416044787 | ISBN-13: 978-1416044789 | Edition: 23

Faster reference...better practice! If you aren't already getting your medical information from Cecil Medicine, it's time for you to start. The 23rd Edition is quite simply the fastest and best place to find all of the clinical answers you need! Both inside the remarkably user-friendly printed version of this Expert Consult title and on its fully searchable web site, you'll find definitive, unbiased, evidence-based guidance on the evaluation and management of every medical condition-from a veritable "who's who" of preeminent leaders in the field. Plus, the Premium Edition's web site regularly integrates new information directly into each chapter...so the content is always as current as the day the book was published!

• An exceptionally practical focus zeroes in on today's most relevant, current, essential knowledge for every condition you see-including the most pertinent bibliographical references, with annotations explaining their clinical significance.
  
• Each chapter indicates which management recommendations are supported by Grade A clinical evidence, so you can implement them with total confidence.
  
• The editorial team is a veritable "who's who" of preeminent leaders in medicine today, and noted world authorities have written each and every chapter, so you get all the accuracy, expertise, and dependability you could ask for...and then some!

• A new chapter format makes clinically actionable information leap right off the page-including algorithms to simplify decision making.
  
• Access to the complete contents of this Expert Consult title online, fully searchable, permits rapid consultation from anyplace with an Internet connection.
  
• Important new practice recommendations, research findings, and other vital clinical advances are regularly integrated directly into each chapter...so no matter what you're looking up, the answers you find are always right, right now!
  
• You can also export illustrations for use in electronic presentations · see how to perform key procedures and much more by viewing step-by-step videos · build your clinical skills with challenging case studies · and assess and update your knowledge with over 1000 review questions and answers!

Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the web site be discontinued.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The book may look pretty and will appeal to bibliophiles but most medics want information and top quality advice and this book delivers hugely on this score. It is robust on factual knowledge and best practice and the editorial control is strong.
This book in effect is the 21st century equivalent of the old fashioned medical "tome" which used to inhabit our bookshelves. This edition is far more user friendly and then there is of course the associated website. Bundled with the website, there are other goodies such as a drugs resource which looks good, videos and case histories. You get a superb book which essentially is a detailed general medical textbook which would appeal to junior doctors taking exams or senior doctors wanting to stay up to date.
An interested medic, who wants an up to date general medical textbook which has a website, will enjoy using this package.
Dr. Harry Brown, Univadis


REVIEW OF THE LAST EDITION

Ranks among the best medical textbooks in longevity, comprehensiveness, tradition, and use by practitioners and students alike" - JAMA


Goldman and Ausiello have given the 22nd edition of this venerable textbook a 21st-century remodeling, which sets a new standard that others are sure to follow.

A doctors bible...It is an incredibly useful resource, it's so detailed you may only feel the benefits of it from 3rd year and even in 3rd year it's pretty comprehensive. Covering pretty much every disease I have heard of so far, it includes an array of less common infectious diseases all accompanied by appropriate clinical images, extensive treatment and pathology sections.

SURGO, Student Review Magazine, October 2008

Book Description

Faster reference.better practice!

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 3120 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 23 edition (August 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416044787
• ISBN-13: 978-1416044789
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.1 x 3.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,218,480 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cecil, April 10, 2001

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Wes Burgess (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cecil Textbook of Medicine (Single Volume) (Cecil Medicine) (Hardcover)

I first bought this book in Medical School and I still use it almost every week after 14 years. It is thorough and consise-- provides a bit of theory and a lot of practical information in a scholarly style. If youre a reader, get this book-- you may find yourself reading a reference book in your spare time. I would like to go to a physician who used Cecil Medicine as a reference. If youre not a natural reader, forget it and just buy the latest copy of the Washington Manual.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More authoritative, readable and practical than Harrison's, May 27, 2006

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Padunkiaet Vejvechaneyom (Bangkok, Thailand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cecil Textbook of Medicine: Single Volume, 22e (Cecil Medicine) (Hardcover)

You may just be interested in only Harrison's and may ignor Cecil's. But if you pay some attentions and seriously consider Cecil's, I am sure you will find out a lot of superb practical chapters and approaches to patients. Many of the chapters were written by world experts and authorities. Compared with Harrison's, Cecil's may contain more world experts and authorities. Many many chapters, written by the authors from the major well known subspecialty textbooks, were excellent and easy to understand. I highly recommend this textbook to medical students, internal medicine residents and internists.

31 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great outline; easily understandable, June 21, 2000

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B. Olalekan "smithsonian2000" (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cecil Textbook of Medicine (Single Volume) (Cecil Medicine) (Hardcover)

This book was first recommended to me by my consultant in internal medicine, so I decided to purchase a copy. So far I have enjoyed the book tremendously. The outlay is great; the depth of coverage is excellent, and it cuts to the meat of internal medicine without giving you distracting [and often confusing] information. Whenever I wanted a general overview of a topic, I turn to this book. For further studies, I use Harrison's. The standard is a bit high for the average medical student though. But if you are an intern, or an IM resident, you'll find the book an invaluable companion.