Family Medicine is the ultimate at-a-glance guide to the diagnosis and treatment of common primary care problems. The book spans the full scope of ambulatory medicine, and is organized according to the flow of patient care–starting with insights into signs and symptoms, followed by expert disease management recommendations.

The information is presented in a manner that enables you to quickly formulate a list of possible diagnoses, perform cost-effective diagnostic work-up, and prescribe therapy. The principles of clinical decision-making and effective evidence-based management strategies are woven throughout.

Features:

• Strength of Evidence Rating System delivers graded evidence for the management recommendations made in each chapter
• A color insert with 30+ full-color photographs
• More internationally renowned contributors
• Complete, but concise, coverage of every major sign, symptom, and complaint in outpatient medicine
• Chapter-opening summary of Key Points
• Chapter presentation allows for quick review of essential information at the point-of-care
• Includes full-text download for your mobile device.

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.

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