Professional Guide to Diseases [Hardcover]

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Book Description

ISBN-10: 1582550735 | ISBN-13: 978-1582550732 | Publication Date: February 15, 2001 | Edition: Seventh

Professional Guide to Diseases, 7th Edition, is the newest edition of the health care professional's guide to disease management and patient care. This complete, yet concise, reference contains more than 600 disorders, including the latest developments on emerging diseases, such as West Nile encephalitis and antibiotic-resistant infections. The book's easy-to-use format presents comprehensive disease information ranging from causes, signs and symptoms, and diagnosis through treatment and special considerations. Helpful tips and charts, anatomic drawings, and other illustrations supplement the text.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1392 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Seventh edition (February 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582550735
• ISBN-13: 978-1582550732
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #960,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Professional Guide to Diseases, January 18, 2003

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Vincent Storie (Edinburgh, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professional Guide to Diseases (Hardcover)

This is an excellent book, pure and simple. It covers a wide variety of diseases, and explains each one well without going into excess and causing "information overload" (as some other medical reference books tend to do). Its format is clear and easily readable. It offers sound clinical and laboratory findings, making it a great resource material for students (such as myself). What impresses me the most is its coverage of the more rare diseases, something often neglected in other texts. I have found it invaluable in my studies, and highly recommend it.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Professional Guide to Diseases, August 29, 2001

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Jeneva Johns (Mansfield, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professional Guide to Diseases (Hardcover)

This is the BEST medical book to have in your home health care library. I have the second addition and have used it countless time to look up ailments for my family and friends. Although it is written for the medical professional, I find it very readable for a layman like myself. When I became very ill with viral encephalitis, this book helped me understand what was happening to me, how to take care of myself, and to show my family what I was going through so they wouldn't worry. ... Again, I would recomend this book to the non-medical reader as a wonderful reference they will come bact to time and time again. ... And as an author, this text offers good hard facts on medical conditions my fictional characters have. ... Good book, I'm ordering the newest version today.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent resource for the health sciences, August 20, 2006

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K. paddack "RT/RNkim" (Huntington beach, ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professional Guide to Diseases (Hardcover)

I used the book as much as I did my drug and nursing procedure book during nursing school. I wished I had it when I was in respiratory therapy school years ago because it's a fantastic book. It's concise, accurate and organized very well. It also further organizes each heading by causes, signs/symptoms, how diagnosed and treatment, etc.