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Emergency Medicine Secrets (The Secrets Series)

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When I started work in an emergency department this book gave me many tips to solve some difficult cases. It is written in a way you can read it for few minutes in between patient visits in your night shift. The readability is high and you never get bored because it fixes every question in few lines (maximum 20 but mostly less than 10).
Obviously it is not really comprehensive, due to the small dimension and the question-response format; but it is sufficient also to study on it for examinations. It requires at least a basic understandig of medicine and it is not interesting for a lay person in many chapters.

This book is a great guide for medical students who want to go into emergency medicine, it is short enough to read in a month but long enough to cover a lot. I recommend reading it before or during your fourth year emergency rotation and again between the end of fourth year and the beginning of your intern year. Carry it with you as a reference.

This book provides a weath of information, and is a great study guide for residents.

What can be better than a resource that goes through undifferentiated complaints. This book is great for anyone going into EM (3rd, 4th, and interns). Use this book during your 3rd year to prep for step 2 since undifferentiated complaints that can lead to significant morbidity and mortality are what step 2 tests. Great for EM rotations (fits in white coat pockets). Most services all have emergency department consults and this book goes through how to initially approach these patients. Easy to read and gets the essential points across.

(Purchased on 05/01/2008) Have wanted this book for some time and found it cheapest at Amazon.
This book is well layed out and organized by disease process and symptoms, good to have on hand for quick reference (but don't leave it lying around the ER, it will disapear fast).
Easy read. I would recomend for med students/residents or ER nurses.

Short, bulleted chapters make for easy reference, but it is also interesting enough to just plough straight through. Definitely appreciate it as a brand new practitioner.

Although very different in style, i loved it! I think its one of those few indispesible books that ED resident should not miss in his library ...
Just get it!

...I just like to read everything about medicine, because I hope to be a doctor one day. I found this book in the medical library at our university, and I liked it a lot. Compared to any textbook I have ever read, it is very clear and basic, but still covers a lot of information, and has a good balance between the weird trivial information that probably comes up occasionally, but is good to know about when it does, and the basic stuff. Also, some of the doctors who write chapters actually have a sense of humor, which makes the book interesting to read. Check out the chapter about bites and stings by Lee Shockley, which is particularly entertaining.