Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient - Softcover

Ferri MD, Fred F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323012841 ISBN 13: 9780323012843

Publisher: Mosby, 2001

Synopsis

A clear and concise reference for the busy clinician or medical student in need of immediate medical information, the Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patientcontinues to provide a fast and efficient way to identify important clinical and laboratory information. This new fifth edition continues to emphasize current, practical clinical information, drug therapeutics and laboratory medicine.

Features a handy pocket-size format for quick reference in clinical situations

Contains thorough coverage of lab values and interpretations

Provides comprehensive coverage of differential diagnosis and drug therapy, including a drug formulary

Includes the latest in clinical information, drug therapeutics and laboratory medicine

Expands Differential Diagnosis chapter to 125 topics from 65 topics

Consolidates material from 30 chapters into 16 chapters for concise, quick reference

Adds new topics on cholecystitis, appendicitis, and carbon monoxide poisoning

Provides an updated and revised Evaluation of the Medical Patient chapter with greater emphasis on diagnostic aids and data evaluation

About this title

About the Author

Fred Ferri is a Clinical Professor of Community Health at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University and author of over 30 medical books. He has been the best-selling medical author in the United States over the past 25 years and is also well known and respected internationally. He has been a visiting Professor at other medical schools and many of his books have been translated in several languages. In addition to his numerous publications, he has had a distinguished academic career at Brown University where he has received several awards for his dedication to teaching including the Brown University Excellence in Teaching award and Dean’s teaching Award, and with the American College of Physicians where he was inducted as a Fellow in the ACP and has been a recipient of the Irving Addison Beck Award from the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Ferri is a practicing physician at Ocean State Medical, a group primary care practice that he established in 1984 and still runs along with two other partners and his two sons.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mosby
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323012841
• ISBN 13: 9780323012843
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 1126