The Hands-on Guide for House Officers (Hands-on Guides) [Paperback]

Anna Donald (Author), Mike Stein (Author), Vivek Muthu (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0632053313 | ISBN-13: 978-0632053315 | Publication Date: June 18, 2002 | Edition: 2

The second edition of The Hands-On Guide for House Officers is a practical book for junior doctors and medical students making the transition from Medical School to life on the Wards. This book tells you how to prepare for the actual daily rigours of hospital life and is an essential guide for surviving your first year as a doctor.

The Hands-On Guide for House Officers covers both the personal aspects of being a doctor and the day-to-day reality of responding to acute emergencies, dealing with common calls and carrying out practical procedures. It tells you:

· what to expect in the first week
· how to prescribe and give drugs
· how to run your own night rounds, tone down your bleep and get more sleep
· how to organize paperwork and work through the mass of hospital forms
· how to arrange your finances, understand tax and maximize your pension
· how to practise evidence-based medicine
· how to discharge patients, talk to fraught relatives
· how to select a computer, start your own medical database and organize your next job
· how to insert central lines, perform chest drains and read ECGs
· how to manage GI bleeds, overdoses and oliguria
· how to prepare diabetic patients for surgery

The first edition of this best-selling book helped thousands of anxious doctors through their first year. Why not see for yourself how it can help you?!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This book is as essential as the Oxford Handbook or the BNF, to put it mildly "the best thing since sliced bread" -- St. Thomas' Medical Gazette

"This wonderful book contains all you need to know to get through your house jobs..... it has priority in my already laden white coat over the Oxford Handbook." -- 2nd Opinion

"I'd advise everyone to get this book as an accompaniment to your Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine." -- Sphincter

"It is very well written, beautifully laid out and extremely practical." -- Dr Tony Hope, Director of Ethox, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford

"This book is as essential as the Oxford Handbook or the BNF, to put it mildly 'the best thing since sliced bread'." St. Thomas' Medical Gazette

"Invaluable for HOs but more than useful for 5th year medical students and SHOs too!" Southampton Health Journal

Published Reviews of the 2nd Edition

"It is exactly what it says: a practical, no-nosense, hands-on guide to real life as a PRHO.

.Basically, its all information we should have acquired during medical school but rarely have all in one place as we place so much emphasis on book learning and little on the practicalities of daily life as a PRHO."

Northwing, vol.67, no.2, Autumn/Winter 2002

From the Back Cover

This book is dedicated to the final year medical student who is about to start --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition (June 18, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0632053313
• ISBN-13: 978-0632053315
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,465,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)