Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access, 7e [Spiral-bound]

Fred F. Ferri MD FACP (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0323048366 | ISBN-13: 978-0323048361 | Publication Date: December 15, 2006 | Edition: 7

If you need a practical, portable resource to get you through your internal medicine clerkship or residency, this book is the answer! It zeroes right in on the differential diagnoses, clinical findings, lab values, and treatment guidelines you need to diagnose and manage more than 225 disorders, signs, and symptoms...and makes them easy to access quickly! This 7th Edition covers 53 new differential diagnoses and 37 new topics...includes more color dermatology images...and features a more compact format for increased portability and ease of use. It also offers you access to the full text online at www.studentconsult.com.

• Presents the latest clinical information, drug therapies, and lab tests.
  
• Features a convenient spiral binding so the book lays flat for easy reference and at-a-glance searching.

• Keeps you up to date with coverage of 53 new differential diagnoses-over 225 in all-and 37 completely new topics.
• Includes more color dermatology images for improved diagnostic assistance.
  
• Offers a more concise, compact format for greater portability and ease of reference.
  
• Presents a revamped formulary that focuses on the most important IV medications used in the hospital setting.
• Comes with STUDENT CONSULT - allowing you to access the complete contents of the book online at www.studentconsult.com, perform sophisticated searches, and take personal notes · follow "Integration Links" to bonus content from other STUDENT CONSULT titles · and much more.

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Book Description

Zeroes in on the differential diagnoses, clinical findings, lab values, and treatment guidelines you need to diagnose and manage

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 1120 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 7 edition (December 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0323048366
• ISBN-13: 978-0323048361
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #762,133 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Way better than Sabatine's!!!, August 27, 2009

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Intern Year Is Glorious (Northern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access, 7e (Spiral-bound)

I tried to use Pocket Medicine by Sabatine during 3rd and 4th year of medical school b/c that is what everyone else had in their white coat pocket. I found it useful in a pinch, but also really hard to actually "read" b/c everything is abbreviated. My brain just doesn't enjoy having to decode every sentence I read... it stops absorbing information.

On the other hand, I picked up Ferri's Practical Guide for the start of intern year and I have been pleasantly surprised. Yes, it's a bit bigger in size, but you can actually pick it up and read it and LEARN STUFF! I still love UpToDate, but with the amount of information an intern/med student needs to know... it's pretty freaking hard to read each and every single article relevant to all the topics you are interested in. On the other hand, you can browse through a topic in Ferri's in just minutes, and you will pick up the most pertinent info because it is concise and organized well. Try refreshing your memory on lupus when you are on call at 4 AM by reading UpToDate... it's painful and not high yield at times like those!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars perfect quick reference, November 6, 2009

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Vio (Colorado) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access, 7e (Spiral-bound)

This book is part of the reason why I love Amazon. I ended up buying just because I liked what the reviewers had said about it in the past and I ended up loving it! It is a quick, focused reference that made the 3rd year IM rotation much easier. It has the essential differential diagnoses/treatment points for a wide variety of diseases. It is not a complete reference (it is pocket sized...) but it has enough to make you look smart in front of your residents ( I don't know about your residents, but mine loved to ask me "my plan" the moment I sat down to gather my thoughts, so I quickly learned to read the relevant section the moment I stepped out of the room).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super book, February 6, 2009

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C. Harper "C. Harper" (Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access, 7e (Spiral-bound)

An an internal medicine doc, I highly recommend this book. It fits in a lab coat pocket and is jam packed with helpful information. Everything is in an "outline" format so that wordiness is not an issue and you can get right to what you want to know/review quickly. This book got me through medical school and residency... and I still refer to it today. It also works as a great boards review book that is highly portable. I use it for when I don't want to lug around the bulky, heavy boards review books.