Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient Updated Edition: With Student Consult Access - Softcover

Ferri MD, Fred F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323040098 ISBN 13: 9780323040099

Publisher: Mosby, 2005

Synopsis

The 6th Edition of this practical, pocket-sized reference continues to zero right in on the information busy readers need―differential diagnoses, clinical findings, lab values, and treatment guidelines, and makes them easy to access it quickly. It covers over 170 of the most essential medical topics, as well as over 220 of the most commonly prescribed medications and over 140 of the most frequently performed laboratory tests. Includes STUDENT CONSULT Access.

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• Provides a dedicated chapter on differential diagnosis, covering over 125 essential topics
  
• Features numerous tables and algorithms for easy access to information
  
• Includes tear-out cards for cardiac codes and cardiac drugs

• Offers the very latest clinical, therapeutic, laboratory medicine, and diagnostic imaging information.
  
• Presents 78 new Differential Diagnosis tables―203 in all―listing diagnostic possibilities from most to least common, where appropriate.
  
• Includes an extensive new section on diagnostic imaging, with advice on which tests to order when, the proper sequence of tests, and interpreting the results.
  
• Lists the causes of laboratory test abnormalities from most to least common.
  
• Uses a new, more reader-friendly, two-color design, and many new full-color illustrations throughout.
  
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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: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323040098
• ISBN 13: 9780323040099
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 1224