Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access

If you need a practical, portable resource to get you through your internal medicine clerkship or residency, this book is the answer! It zeroes right in on the differential diagnoses, clinical findings, lab values, and treatment guidelines you need to diagnose and manage more than 225 disorders, signs, and symptoms...and makes them easy to access quickly! This 7th Edition covers 53 new differential diagnoses and 37 new topics…includes more color dermatology images…and features a more compact format for increased portability and ease of use. It also offers you access to the full text online at www.studentconsult.com.

• Presents the latest clinical information, drug therapies, and lab tests.
  
• Features a convenient spiral binding so the book lays flat for easy reference and at-a-glance searching.

• Keeps you up to date with coverage of 53 new differential diagnoses―over 225 in all―and 37 completely new topics.
  
• Includes more color dermatology images for improved diagnostic assistance.
  
• Offers a more concise, compact format for greater portability and ease of reference.
  
• Presents a revamped formulary that focuses on the most important IV medications used in the hospital setting.
  
• Includes FREE PDA software that enables you to load and carry the book's content on your handheld device.
  
• Comes with STUDENT CONSULT – allowing you to access the complete contents of the book online at www.studentconsult.com, perform sophisticated searches, and take personal notes • follow "Integration Links" to bonus content from other STUDENT CONSULT titles • and much more.

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.