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Emergency Medicine: An Approach to Clinical Problem-Solving, 2e

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This is an excellent book. Very readable. It utilizes primarily a sign and symptom-based layout with many useful suggestions on how to approach many common as well as not so common ED presentations. It is 900 pages and has many good pictures and diagrams. The index is very good as well. For a quick reference when there is not extensive time to research a topic, as well as for a straight read, this book is solid.

This is perhaps the best book for a MS4 in a EM rotation. It can be covered completely in a month, without going "balls to the walls" crazy while studying. Highlights differentials and treatments, less on the pathophys. side. Med students need something to cover in a month, and this is the best that I've read.

I got this book because it is required reading for the emergency medicine rotation at my school but I find it to be a dull read and lacking in good pictures. My clerkship director recommends Tintinelli or Rosen.

As a medical student, I thought this book covered everything you would ever want to know about the emergency medicine clinic and beyond. Great information that applies some of the most recent medical research to the world of clinical medicine. Very up to date.

I really don't know why so many reviewers are heaping all of the praise for this book. This text is required reading for the clerkship that I just finished in emergency medicine. It is 900 pages of redundant, poorly explained, outdated material that leaves me no better informed than when I first began. A quick comparison of this book with Titinalli reveals that Hamilton's chapters are overly long, yet do not do any better of a job of explaining relevant material. The book seems to use a looped approach to teaching: that is, a subject is introduced from start to finish (history, physical, and treatment) and then re-discussed and finer detail of history, physical, and treatment. In the end, I end up spending well over an hour per chapter to read something that takes me only 10 minutes in Titinalli. Also, some of the information in this text is outdated. The ACLS guidelines go against what the first few chapters of this book teach. It is important for a textbook to stay current and to have regular updates using the latest available literature. I would recommend that a person use either "An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine" or Titinalli.