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.
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.
