Customer Reviews

Griffith's Instructions for Patients, Seventh Edition

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Intended to be a compendium of handouts for physicians to give to patients, Griffith's Instructions provides information on a wide variety of illnesses. From croup to tooth grinding, this book covers maladies both small, i.e. indigestion, and large, i.e. congestive heart failure, in a consistent, matter-of fact presentation. All of the perforated, pull out discussions include basic descriptions of the illness, including the frequent signs and symptoms, a brief synopsis of possible causes, risks, preventative measures, expected outcomes, and possible complications. Treatments are also discussed through both general measures and medications with notes on recommended activity and diet. The 6th edition revises and updates all of the problems that patients regularly bring to their doctors discussed in the 5th edition and adds more than twenty new ones.

Extensive appendices provide diets, including the latest food pyramid guidelines, daily values, nutrition data and specific diet regimes. There are also a plethora of diagrams and instructions for wellness, such as how to perform breast and testicular self-exams. Unlabeled diagrams of the body, ranging from eye to the endocrine system (both male and female) are also provided.

This series of books have been very helpful in my practice. I currently use the 6th edition. I was excited that the Spanish translation for handouts is included on the CD-ROM. However, there is one crucial difference: With the 6th edition the contents can be INSTALLED on your computer (and the CD then stored). Then topics can be searched and printed per PDF files/Acrobat reader. In the 6th edition, each topic print out is ONE page. HOWEVER, with the 7th edition, the CD-ROM MUST BE in the cd drive to work. This ties up that drive and is very inconvenient in a busy practice, if you have other uses for that drive. In the 7th edition, the printouts can be THREE pages long, consuming much more paper!

This is a valuable resource for any doctor's office. I use it every day. It is very clearly and logically written.

This book is great for anyone who wants a quick reference guide available for a multitude of medical diagnoses, including a description of what the condition is, symptoms, treatment information, commmon tests to used to diagnose the condition, prognosis, when to call the doctor, etc. AWESOME BOOK! I love it!!!

I do peds more so a lot of the stuff in this book wasn't helpful for me. Ok reference to have around for some patients, but more adult stuff in here

This is a nice book for patient education handouts. It's easiest if you tear out the papers and keep in a binder for quick copies. Although it doesn't have every topic I would like, it has a nice variety. We had an older version at work and I was glad to find a revised/updated book.

The number of conditions included in the book is very good. The organization makes it easy to find what you are looking for. The use one page per condition is easy for storing and printing, but I do wonder what has been left out for the sake of saving pages. I havn't looked that deeply into this yet. Still, the one page format is very handy. I also like that the pages are perforated especially now that I have tried the CD and found it lacking. This is the reason for the poorer than usual score I gave. The CD page won't maximize on my desktop and I am looking at a 5x5 inch square rather than a full screen. No biggy, really, but when I did my first printing, "Acne" prined 3 pages (the 3rd page had only one line on it). I compared the printed pages to the information in the book on the "Acne" page and found it to be identical in content, and of course more compact. The printing format is not like the one page book format; only the removable book pages are on one page. So for me, the CD could be better and print out single pages if that is all the information anyway. And, it would be nice to not have to load the CD every time you need it, rather, you could load a program on the computer and use that instead. But all in all, the book does what it is intended to do and is more effecient than gathering and editing all of your own patient education, which is what I was previously doing and found that much too time consuming. This book does save time.

this product was in deplorable condition upon arrival. there was nothing "like new" about it!!!