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Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, Third Edition

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The Mayo Clinic Family Health Book is like having six resource books in one. Information from Mayo is reliable, easy-to-understand and reviewed by some of the most respected physicians in the world.

Part I: Living Well
Part II: Common Conditions and Concerns Through Life's Stages
Part III: Making Sense of Your Symptoms
Part IV: First Aid and Emergency Care
Visual Guide: Anatomy and Common Disorders (color photos and illustrations)
Part V: Diseases and Disorders
Part VI: Tests and Treatments
Glossary and Resources
Index

Each disease mentioned contains information about key signs and symptoms, a basic description of the disease, illustrations, how the disease is diagnosed, potential consequences, information on treatment, and information on prevention.

The comprehensive index in the third edition is easy to use. For example, information on "scoliosis" can be found on pages 235, 603, 774, 980, and 981. (Page 980 features an illustration.)

There is also a complete listing of resources for more information including addresses, phone numbers and Web sites. I particularly like the section on symptoms. You can just look up a symptom such as "back pain" and learn more about conditions that cause back pain. The book then directs you to the page containing detailed information about that condition.

I'm looking forward to what I hope will be the interactive DVD version of the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book in the future.

This is an excellent resource book that covers a large majority of health conditions and treatments. It give a thorough explanation of Symptoms, First Aid, Diseases and Disorders, Tests and Treatments. What is especially nice are the chapters on common conditions based on your age group and how to Live Well. The information is covered thoroughly with illustrations and diagrams. There is a full-color photograph and illustrations section in the book called the Visual Guide. This section is helpful when trying to identify things like rashes and skin disorders and for reviewing anatomy.

The other two books you should possess for starting your medical/health library should include a good drug/medication book (or use a website like www.medlineplus.gov) and a good medical dictionary (recommend Taber's, but MedlinePlus also has an encyclopedia/dictionary).

The Mayo Family Health book is a "wealth of information."
My husband recently became ill and was hospitalized. We were able to pinpoint symptoms in the book which helped us along with our health provider get appropriate testing and treatment for his condition.

With healthcare today, we must be "informed consumers".
I have worked nearly 35 years in clinical laboratory medicine and I still learn something new everyday....this book certainly helps.

I was very impressed with this book. It contains tons of information about our bodies. My husband recently had major surgery and I looked his condition up in the book. It helped me understand what was going on with him and what the surgery would entail.

I have had an older edition of this book for years. Recently my husband has had a variety of health problems and the book translates what the doctor says, provides a "second opinion" whether the suggested treatment is appropriate and normal, and also helps self-identify conditions and whether they need medical attention or home remedy. The recent purchase is the new edition that we are going to give to his daughter and family in Canada. With two young daughters, they face a myriad of situations that need quick decisions, and they live in a rural area, so an authoritative source will be welcome.

I order this book every time there is a revision. Our household uses this as a quick reference all the time!

We purchased the Mayo Clinic Eeference guide to serve as a family medical book. We are very pleased with the descriptions and information about comon medical issues. I highly recommend this book for individuals who want more information about common and not so common medical difficulties.

In the past we tried a number of health books. The Mayo Clinic book is the most comprehensive we have found. It is so good we provided gift copies to our children's families and several other relatives. We have always found useful information for nearly everything we've looked up. It is not just recommended, but highly recommended!!

I like the format of this book. The six sections seem designed to truly make the work user friendly.
They are:
Part I: Living Well II: Common Conditions and Concerns Through Life's Stages III: Making Sense of Your Symptoms
IV: First Aid and Emergency Care VisualGuide: Anatomy and Common Disorders Part V: Diseases and Disorders
VI: Tests and Treatments
The great prayer is that most of what one learns from reading and going through this guide will not have to be useful or relevant.

This work covers a plethora of health care modalities and outcomes for people young and old. For instance, model immunizations for adults include flu, hepetitis
strains A,B, meningococcal, pneumococcal and tetanus every 10th
year. Sample diet plans are described for men and women. These include 1200 to 1400 caloric intake for overweight persons.

Common conditions are described for the various life stages. NSAIDS are recommended for chronic pain. i.e. Advil, Motrin and Aleve. Model medications and classic drug interactions are defined and described in great detail. X-ray views of healthy body parts are depicted , as well as diseased sections in colorectal cancer etc. The chronic pain section could be supplemented with complementary medicinal protocols; such as,
acupuncture, rolfing, massages, herbal wraps and others too numerous to list here.

The work would be very helpful for use in the personal medicinal library. The volume is well researched and reasonably current.
It would be helpful to have alternative medicinal methodologies
and modalities described for comparison purposes. Generally,
the volume is strong in areas that would be helpful in crafting
better questions to present to health care professionals on a
variety of vital medicinal issues and outcomes. These issues
include the treatment plan, pain identification/management,
the biology of the disease process and the patient prognosis.