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Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient: Expert Consult: Online and Print |  | Author: Fred F. Ferri MD FACP
Publisher: Mosby
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
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Media: Ring-bound
Edition: 8
Pages: 616
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Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0323071589
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780323071581
ASIN: 0323071589
Publication Date: June 11, 2010
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Product Description
Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient is the concise and clinically-focused pocket resource you need to get through your internal medicine clerkship or residency. Dr. Fred Ferri offers his experience as a leading teacher and clinician to help you diagnose and manage more than 225 disorders, signs, and symptoms. The new hardcover ring binder lets you carry the sections you need and add personalized materials. With the fully searchable text at expertconsult.com-along with practical information on diagnoses, treatment, procedures, and labs-this guide gives you convenient access to the information you need anytime you need it.in print and online.
- Provides the practical and expert guidance of Dr. Fred Ferri, a leading teacher, clinician, and author.
- Presents the latest clinical information, drug therapies, and lab tests to help you confidently manage patients.
- Includes access to the fully searchable text online at expertconsult.com, along with procedures and labs.
- Offers a more concise, compact format with only must-know clinical information for greater portability and ease of reference.
- Features a ring binder with a hard plastic cover so that you can carry the sections you need, add personalized materials, and keep everything together and safe.
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Good for the beginner July 14, 2010
Colin F. (Chicago)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First, the negatives: the binder feels like an afterthought. It's poorly made (the cover ink is rubbing off after a week of kicking around my pocket), the pages barely fit in and are sometimes hard to flip because the rings are overloaded even when some extraneous pages are removed, and the pages sometimes have holes punched in the middle of words (footnotes from charts, typically, but rarely).
The good: I love the content. I'm in my first rotation, medicine, and I originally had "the red book" but honestly it was beyond my level, and my school has uptodate on computers everywhere you could look. What I wanted was something that could remind me of pertinent details of a disease, things to look for when working up a patient, and something I could study from in five minutes here or there but not so condensed and abbreviated that I had to flip back and forth to a list of abbreviations to make heads or tails of what I was reading.
Still, the best advice I've gotten is to wait a few days into a rotation before buying a pocket reference book. Then ask yourself what you wish you had at hand just before working up a patient. Then go shopping.
Loved the book August 7, 2010
Matthew Njaa (Marietta, GA)
This is a review of an earlier edition of the book, but I believe it is still pertinent. I wrote this originally in 2004, hope it is useful for the med students and interns of today:
I am a transitional intern doing my gen med rotation. I was introduced to this book by my intern 2 years ago when I was a student during the first week of my gen med rotation. It was great then, and it is great now. I hate carrying stuff in my white coat, especially books of this size. But I refer to it constantly during the day. In rounds, in the ED while working up a patient, while reviewing a patient's labs. Numerous times each day. I have two students with me now, and I've convinced them after one week that they should buy this book. It's that good.
Details, ie, what it offers.
DDX, there is a DDX section in the front for common presenting symptoms. This is perhaps the books only weakness. It is too scant. Many common symptoms aren't included. The differentials offered are adequate, but the section could be expanded.
Systems Based Chapters. CV, Pulm, GI, ID,Neuro, Renal etc. The stuff you see everday on the wards is reviewed very well, with signs, symptoms, diagnostic workup and treatment. These chapters are not everything you need to know. I do more reading at night on specific ailments my patients are presenting with. But in the ED when you are accepting a thyroid storm, CVA, GIB, whatever, its there and it will get you through the admission and the evening until morning rounds with the attending.
Another great feature is the section that helps to interpret many labs you may order. Elevated, normal or low anything, and it provides a great differential. It can make you look smart on rounds.
Finally, there is a short formulary in the back, which I never refer to since I have both pharmacopaeia (spelling?) and epocrates.
This book is great for med students and transitional interns. Prelims and categoricals probably can pass on this. I'd say the next step is the little red book put out by Stanford (Standford Internal Medicine pocket guide? Not sure of the name.) It is much more compact, concise, etc. with citations to the literature. But if you are a med student, buy it NOW, before your gen med rotation.
Good Luck.
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