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Pediatric Hospital Medicine: Textbook of Inpatient Management

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This book attempts to be a jack of all trades but unfortunatly is a master of none, most topics glossed over, not enough depth, save your money and get a good internet connection, you will find more useful information and it will be up to date too!

This is the first textbook aimed at pediatricians who practice predominantly or exclusively in the hospital setting. Hospital medicine is more similar to emergency medicine as opposed to outpatient practice. Therefore, established pediatrics textbooks such as Nelson, Oski and Rudolph are less practical for hospital medicine. Those books cannot focus on inpatient conditions with sufficient depth and still remain relatively small (ie 1 volume or 2 volumes) and inexpensive. This hospital medicine book is a nice attempt to cover the scope of hospital practice. However, the quality of the chapters is variable. Some are excellent while others lack practical management strategies. Residents will find this book useful as it covers the scope of hospital practice more effectively than the established pediatric textbooks.