Customer Reviews

Internal Medicine: Handbook for Clinicians (RESIDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE SERIES)

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This handbook is a perfect complement to Washington Manual and Ferri's Guide. It probably could not, and should not, be used as a stand-alone guide but as a peripheral brain it is just small enough, light enough and packed with enough information about the more common conditions to be considered as yet another weight to add to your coat pocket.

It has some strong chapters, such as Infectious Disease and Cardiology but hardly anything on Oncology and Endocrinology. In the effort to contain topics to 1 or 2 pages, the authors obviously could not pack as much information as one would want, but then that's what textbooks and PDAs are for.

Overall, very useful during rounds and when on house officer call.

As a health care professional (not a medical student or resident), I found this book extremely informative. The information is current in dealing with today's primary care issues. The book's format is easy to access. Information is organized and concise. It provides a quick look at guidelines for clinical care. I would recommend this reference book for anyone who is dealing with general medicine.

This book is now literally the only book (besides my Palm Pilot) I carry on the wards. It has an amazing wealth of information from ECG criteria for the diagnosis of wide complex tachycardia, to Coumadin dosing algorithms, to guidelines for thyroid nodule evaluations. All guidelines/recomendations are extensively refrenced to the primary literature. Ounce for ounce, the best and most comprehensive medical handbook!

This is the best handbook out there. In the past I have used the MGH manual, Ferri and the Washington manual, as well as one I made myself. There is no question that this is the only book, aside from Sanford, that I use on a daily basis. I use it for calculations, quick reviews, and even for teaching. On more than one occasion I have based a lecture on the format used in this handbook.

Ever since I started carrying this book around, I have had no use for all the other cards and books I used to carry. In fact this book and the palm pilot with epocrates are the only things a medical resident should ever need. The information is complete, concise and up to date with full references. The book is well written, perfectly layed out and easy to navigate. And of importance to any housestaff/medical student, it's small and light and fits in any coat pocket...

I've owned every pocket guide and this is one is really well-designed!

I've had 2 pound, 1000 page 'pocket guides' (which gave me daily headaches from carrying them in my whitecoat pocket) that were far less helpful than this small/lightweight book.

From common issues like....

Constipation. When you are on in-house call and the nurse pages you and he/she wants to know what to give a patient for constipation? It's right there at your fingetips. Try to find it in those other guides. How can you make a med student/intern/resident handbook and not address issues like constipation?

To things like.....

Vent settings....or procedures....or actual DOSAGES for the medicines they recommend. How many times I've opened the other guides to find:

'administer heparin' (or similar statements)

well...thanks...BUT HOW MUCH and...HOW OFTEN?! Do they expect me to then open a pocket pharm guide and try and cross reference for the particular situation?

Definitely NEEDS updated (WITHOUT changing the design please!) as it's seven years old, but it's still the best thing to carry in your pocket.

Incredibly well thought out and designed. It's obvious to me that the authors are doctors who KNOW what you are going through as a student/intern/resident.

Medical students are constantly searching for the perfect books to fill our pockets- this is small, concise, and well-laid out for quick reference. The decision trees and explanations for work-ups of different presenting symptoms are especially helpful.

This handbook is concise enough to make it ideal for a quick glance while being in the ward. A unique, as far as I know, feature of this handbook is the fact that it provides references to textbooks or scientific papers in case someone would like to read further on a matter.
All in all, it surely deserves a place in a resident's pocket (perhaps along with the Oxford handbook of clinical medicine).

This book has been very handy to have on the floor. It has all the most important info about diseases, values that are difficult to remember, disease criteria, and helpful charts. I really found this book useful.

An broad and impressive array of medical information and pearls; complete with comprehensive tables for quick and easy recall and references to primary literature sources for more in depth study. A must for the medical student/house staff looking to practice truly evidenced-based medicine.