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 | | Family Medicine: Ambulatory Care and Prevention by Mark Mengel, L. Schwiebert ISBN-10: 9780071423229 ISBN-10: 0-07-142322-2 ISBN-13: 9780071423229 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-142322-9 Paperback 2004-11-01 McGraw-Hill Medical Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description A quick reference guide to the diagnosis and treatment of common primary care problems The information is presented in such a way as to help students and physicians quickly form a list of possible diagnoses, perform a cost-effective diagnostic work-up, and prescribe therapy for the most common causes of acute and chronic complaints. Principles of clinical decision making and efficient management strategies are integrated throughout the book. | ||
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Just my two sense-Great book for any doctor to have on the shelf This is an amazing book to keep around. It has an extraordinary amount of information in a listed outline format. The conditions are listed by complaint ("Low Back Pain", "Cough"). This is extremely helpful for any medical student or resident trying to work on tuning their differential diagnosis skills or for looking up how you would work up a condition. It gives all the latest guidelines on how to treat and diagnose conditions along with the presentations that are most likely seen in a clinical setting. It is too thick of a book to use on clinical rotations but would be an excellent primary source for a resident in family med or even internal medicine. I used it mostly as a reference while in family medicine clerkship and was happy enough with it that I bought a copy. Frankly, it is the bread and butter information that any respectable doctor should know. For me, it covered 90% of all complaints that I saw while on my clerkship. The only real down side is that the book is rather advanced. If you haven't been to 2-3 yrs of medical school and you don't understand that pathology of a disease just by reading the name of the syndrome (ie- Reiter's syndrome) this book is too complex for you. | ||
Good Reference I used this for family medicine clerkship. It is good because it outlines all major categories of ambulatory illnesses/problems and explains current treatments/recommendations. Some of the information goes beyond what you are looking for when preparing for the shelf (i.e., advice on patient counseling) but, at the same time I emphasize the fact that this book does a great job of concisely summing up the current guidelines and classifications for all sorts of diseases, and uses tables effectively. I recommend this book as a good reference, but you will definitely want to use a source that has a bunch of questions, like Lange's family medicine clerkship question and answer to supplement this (I took the shelf today and actually saw one question on the test that was identical to a question in the Lange question and answer book). All in all, a good buy --- especially since it is a fairly small book, easy to keep with you to study and concise and informative. | ||
Family Medicine I am an Army Physician Assistant, and I highly recommend this book. I plan on purchasing any new editions as they are published, as well. | ||
Family Medicine: Ambulatory Care and Prevention review Lots of helpful information. However, I don't really cae for the format -have to search for treatments, especialy medications. Not that reader-friendly. | ||
Great book I must say that it is one of the great books about family medicine, the only drawback is the text size. | ||