Customer Reviews

Family Medicine: Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Fifth Edition (LANGE Clinical Medicine)

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I've been looking for this kind of text for a while. Terse enough for board review, complete enough for reference and teaching (I am an adjunct faculty member of a family medicine residency program). I've recommended it without equivocation to all our residents.

Of course there are other Family Medicine textbooks out there that can be useful, but this Family Medicine textbook includes a tremendous amount of clinical information handy for the daily review in rotations on this field. This book proof that not always the more expensive books are the best, this is an excellent and affordable book.

The authors have managed to fit a tremendous amount into this book's nearly 800 pages. highly recommended for revision if you don't mind the outline format.

So impressed with this book. Small, succinct, it packs a lot of pertinent info into a very readable, highly organized text. I had searched through many other books to find one that listed commonly encountered symptoms/complaints, ddx, and recommended tests/labs with treatments, all in one place and in an accessible way...I finally found it in this volume. This has become my new go-to-guide for my family practice preceptorship...should have been been recommended by the program.

I was looking for a medical reference book to be kept at home. After a lot of personal research and recommendations, I finally narrowed upon Family medicine book. The contents are very good, detailed and accurate. I would recommend the book to anyone who needs to have medical reference guide handy.

I used this for family medicine clerkship. It is good because it outlines all major categories of ambulatory illnesses/problems and explains current treatments/recommendations. Some of the information goes beyond what you are looking for when preparing for the shelf (i.e., advice on patient counseling) but, at the same time I emphasize the fact that this book does a great job of concisely summing up the current guidelines and classifications for all sorts of diseases, and uses tables effectively. I recommend this book as a good reference, but you will definitely want to use a source that has a bunch of questions, like Lange's family medicine clerkship question and answer to supplement this (I took the shelf today and actually saw one question on the test that was identical to a question in the Lange question and answer book). All in all, a good buy --- especially since it is a fairly small book, easy to keep with you to study and concise and informative.

This is an amazing book to keep around. It has an extraordinary amount of information in a listed outline format. The conditions are listed by complaint ("Low Back Pain", "Cough"). This is extremely helpful for any medical student or resident trying to work on tuning their differential diagnosis skills or for looking up how you would work up a condition. It gives all the latest guidelines on how to treat and diagnose conditions along with the presentations that are most likely seen in a clinical setting. It is too thick of a book to use on clinical rotations but would be an excellent primary source for a resident in family med or even internal medicine. I used it mostly as a reference while in family medicine clerkship and was happy enough with it that I bought a copy. Frankly, it is the bread and butter information that any respectable doctor should know. For me, it covered 90% of all complaints that I saw while on my clerkship. The only real down side is that the book is rather advanced. If you haven't been to 2-3 yrs of medical school and you don't understand that pathology of a disease just by reading the name of the syndrome (ie- Reiter's syndrome) this book is too complex for you.

I am an Army Physician Assistant, and I highly recommend this book. I plan on purchasing any new editions as they are published, as well.

Lots of helpful information. However, I don't really cae for the format -have to search for treatments, especialy medications. Not that reader-friendly.

I must say that it is one of the great books about family medicine, the only drawback is the text size.