Now in its Sixth Edition, this comprehensive text provides pertinent information on medical diagnosis, therapy, lab tests, and health maintenance essential to decision making in primary care medicine. Every chapter has been revised to include more images, tables, and bulleted lists. Practical recommendations that incorporate the best available evidence, expert consensus guidelines, and clinical judgement are listed in bulleted items at the end of every chapter. The dermatology section has been extensively revised for this edition by a new section editor.
A companion Website offers the fully searchable text and an image bank.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Excellent:
Provides excellent practical advice for common situations in primary care. We need widespread acceptance of such guidelines to stop runaway costs caused by unnecessary testing and to avoid treatments that do not work.
Great Reference for the NP student!:
I love the way this book is broken down in each section including patho, presentation, diagnosis, principles of therapy, patient eduation, and therapeutic recommendations. There is even a section for referral indications. I bought this book to supplement my primary care text book, and to use as a reference for discussion boards and papers.
Standard-bearer:
For an office based physician this thouroghly updated and referenced text-book offers the best evidence based information in short time of turning fewer pages. I use it more than Harrison's text-book as it more SOAP related and better cross-referenced.
The editors of this brand-book made current changes, making it state of the art standard-bearer of text-books for any practicing physician. Moreover, my money is well spend when I bought this from Amazon.com store that let be browse books before I buy... more info
Relevance of primary care textbook to my practice.:
This textbook is very informative and helpful in my current practice as a family physician and geriatrician. The topics are up-to-date and very relevant.
