Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine (Pocket Notebook Series) [Ring-bound]

Marc S. Sabatine MD MPH (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 20, 2010 | ISBN-10: 1608319059 | ISBN-13: 978-1608319053 | Edition: Fourth, North American Edition

The Pocket Medicine manual from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, provides key clinical data for students and residents. It includes areas of internal medicine, cardiology, pulmonary, gastroenterology, nephrology, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, and rheumatology.

Product Details

• Ring-bound: 304 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fourth, North American Edition edition (September 20, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1608319059
• ISBN-13: 978-1608319053
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable, April 27, 2011

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Nick Talon - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine (Pocket Notebook Series) (Ring-bound)

If you're looking for an overloaded, and generally not helpful pocket medicine book that doesn't actually fit in your coat pocket...you may want to look elsewhere. But if you want a great book that covers all the most important points of critical topics with consistent efficiency, this is most definitely the book you want to buy. The amount of important and consistently helpful information this little stack of pages fits in is very helpful, particularly for us medical students who seem to consistently be on the receiving end of those pimping questions that we need a quick way to look up the answer to. I'll admit I don't have any of the 600 pages of the Washington Manual, but I'm not sure it can really be considered a "pocket" medicine book...more along the lines of a "rolling suitcase" medicine book. Buy this book, you will not regret it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for Residents, but Med Students no so much, July 3, 2011

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This review is from: Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine (Pocket Notebook Series) (Ring-bound)

This is a good reference book for those who have become acclimated to the clinical environment, but if you are just starting, the abbreviations used through the book and transition from diagnosis to treatment leaves little to learn from. A good reference book, but a medical student would be better off with a more comprehensive manual in the early stages.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a big fan, I just don't get it., November 12, 2010

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Dr. Gubernaculum "Dr. Guber" (AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine (Pocket Notebook Series) (Ring-bound)

I have never figured out, as a student and resident, what to do with this book. It's neither a quick reference, nor a learning textbook. It's somewhere in the middle, giving a lot of textbook info in a small amount of space, but nothing specific to help you in a crunch. I found myself looking on uptodate instead. Some people swear by it, but I started adding stuff to the back to make it worth carrying around, but finally gave up. If I'm going to use it for study, I'd rather have a book I don't have to squint at and keep turning to the abbreviations page to figure out what it's talking about.