Harrison's Guide to Inpatient Medicine: Common Internal Medicine Diseases and Workups

A practical, point-of-care companion for the wards―backed by Harrison’s trusted expertise 

Harrison's Guide to Inpatient Medicine: Common Internal Medicine Diseases and Workups bridges the gap between dense medical school textbooks and quick-reference pocket guides, providing a structure to help medical students, interns, and residents navigate the transition from the classroom to the bedside with practical inpatient protocols for the wards. Each highly templated symptom- or condition-based chapter guides the reader through the gathering of the patient history, performing the physical exam, arriving at a differential diagnosis, deciding which tests to order, formulating and adjusting a treatment plan, and anticipating complications. 

Key points, clinical vignettes, and guiding questions are highlighted within the chapters so that medical students, interns, and residents can apply their knowledge to real-world cases and build confidence on the wards. 

This book offers:

•   Coverage dedicated to the most common symptoms, diseases, and topics in hospital-based internal medicine, allowing clinicians to quickly find answers and apply evidence-based management on the wards
•   High-yield key points at the start of every chapter for quick reference
•   Clinical scenarios frequently encountered during inpatient management, such as chest x-rays, ECGs, and more
•   References to chapters from Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine for more in-depth coverage on any given topic when needed  
•   Practical point-of-care features combined with illustrative clinical vignettes and guiding questions
•   Full-color clinical diagrams, images, and tables
•   Disease-specific admitting orders to streamline initial management and built-in discharge planning guidance to support safe, efficient transitions of care
•   Short summaries of landmark trials that medical students and residents would be expected to know on rounds
•   Trust and authority―all chapters have been reviewed by the world-renowned editors of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine 


Harrison's Guide to Inpatient Medicine: Common Internal Medicine Diseases and Workups is an essential resource for medical students, interns, residents, hospitalists, and all clinicians seeking a smarter, faster, and more confident approach to inpatient management.

Anthony S. Fauci, MDChief, Laboratory of ImmunoregulationDirector, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesNational Institutes of Health. In 2008, Dr. Fauci was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation's highest civil award.

Dennis L. Kasper, MD, MA (Hon)William Ellery Channing Professor of MedicineProfessor of Microbiology and Molecular GeneticsExecutive Dean for Academic ProgramsHarvard Medical SchoolDirector, Channing LaboratoryDepartment of MedicineBrigham and Women’s Hospital

Stephen L. Hauser, MDChairman and Betty Anker Fife ProfessorDepartment of NeurologyUniversity of California, San Francisco

Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chairman, Department of Medicine; Physician-in-Chief, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Mitchell Edwards, DO FACP, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine at University of Washington School of Medicine, and a hospitalist attending physician at VA Puget Sound Care System in Seattle, WA.

Dan L. Longo, MD, is professor of medicine at Harvard University School of Medicine, senior physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and deputy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Anthony S. Fauci, MD, is a distinguished professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the McCourt School of Public Policy in Washington, DC.

Dennis L. Kasper, MD, is William Emery Channing Professor of Medicine and professor of immunology at Harvard Medical School, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Stephen L. Hauser, MD, is Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor of Neurology and director of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences for the University of California, San Francisco.

J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, is Robert G. Dunlop Professor of Medicine, and interim president of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, is Hersey Distinguished Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, and Samuel A. Levine Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, physician-in-chief emeritus and chair emeritus of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Steven M. Holland, MD, is scientific director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and distinguished investigator at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.

Carol A Langford, MD, MHS, is Harold C. Schott Endowed Chair in Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, professor of medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University of Medicine, and director of the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.