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Clinical Dermatology: Expert Consult - Online and Print, 5e (Clinical Dermatology (Habif))

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I am an urgent care physician and have been using an earlier edition and now this edition in my practice. I use it for teaching both students and residents who rotate with me, and often will use it with patients to illustrate why I do (or don't) think their rash is what they think it is. My older edition has started to fall apart and luckily a new edition was available. I have learned so much from the text and feel very confident in my dermatology diagnosis and treatments. I have used other references, but I always come back to my Habif for confirmation. It clearly is the best reference.

I got this as a reference book to keep around but before doing my 4th year Derm rotation opened it up and found that it has a nice preface for how a medical student can use it to get up to speed on dermatology. I've only read the first few chapters but it's readable as a text as well as being a well known reference book. They added two chapters in this edition at the beginning that help you to make a differential diagnosis based on the type of lesion and the location.

I had the older edition of this book, and I used it so much in my practice as a family practice P.A. that I bought the newer edition as soon as it was available. The doctors in my office weren't familiar with this one when I first brought it to the office. They now love it, too! Highly recommended.

I am a dermatologyst and find this book an excellent source of concise reference and well presented tables of information completely up to date!