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Family Medicine 2000 (Cd-Rom for Windows & Macintosh)

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This book has (almost) everything that a family physician needs in the hospital. I purchased the original edition a number of years ago, and recently bought the 2000 edition. I only carry two books with me in the hospital -- the Pocket Pharmacopea and this book.

This book continues the trend of high quality pocket publications from the Current Clinical Strategies series. If you're a resident in family medicine, get this book and the Pharmacopea -- you'll be set.

If you're a medical student, get this book, the Washington Manual (or Ferri), the Pharmacopea, and check out their H&P pocket book as well.

BTW, don't waste your time with the CD-ROM version of this book -- unless you expect to lug around your laptop all day!

I got this thinking it would contain useful guidelines for myself and my new ARNP (in an office practice), but found much of the book to consist of admitting orders, and the rest not particularly useful.

The discussion of hypertension, for example, consists of 3/4 page, does briefly discuss workup of newly dx HTN, and lists drugs and dosages - but NOT any recommendations for which drug to use in which patient, and no mention of guideline such as JNC-6.

The one page on active TB discusses workup and treatment regimens, but NOT possible hepatotoxicity of drugs, and NO discussion of which patients would be more likely to have resistant disease.

It seems to essentially be a FP version of the "Wash Manual" (Washington Manual of Therapeutics), and as such is appropriate for FP housestaff, but NOT for experienced clinicians, midlevel providers, or those doing only outpatient medicine.

This book is a must if you're a family practice resident. Clear, concise and fits in your pocket. It's great!

In today's economy taking personal responsibility for your own health and that of your family as well is becoming increasingly important. So much so that having knowledge of conditions and their treatments permits repore with medical professionals charged with performing the services involved in our care. Being thus informed we are then able to equip the medical professional with the ability to streamline our treatments, exact our diagnoses, etc., etc. These two books are particularly useful to me not only as a student but as a consumer. They will remain in my library to be used for reference.

This is a must have for primary care. Great for writing orders..

I can't count how many times this helped me at 3 to 5 am when I was dead tired.

Contains practically everything you'll need whether you're a family medicine practitioner or a medstudent doing a family medicine clerkship.

It's better then most scut monkey books.

This book is great. I would recommend it to all Family Nurse Practitioners.

This book has the two great attributes: clarity and brevity. Areal deal. END