Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, 17th Edition
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Put the authority and accuracy of Harrison’s in the palm of your hand!
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“This condensed version is for anyone who has the remotest association with the practice of medicine, be they internists, surgeons, nurses, technical staff, or counselors. This is the authority, and in a time of readily available but not always accurate information, this is the one source that can be relied upon, in an almost pocket-sized edition….While the main text is one of the absolute pillars of any medical library, this is the pillar to be carried with you on rounds. It is the final word in internal medicine and we all owe a debt of gratitude to the editors and contributors who have created this extraordinary authority in medicine.”–Doody’s Review Service
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Referenced to Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, the world’s leading internal medicine textbook, this ultra-handy, portable reference delivers on-the-spot answers to the clinical problems you face in everyday practice. Turn to any page, and you’ll find essential point-of-care guidance on all the major conditions seen in clinical medicine.
Completely updated to reflect all the major advances and new clinical developments, the new edition of the Manual is the most indispensable yet. It continues to focus on diagnosis and therapy with an emphasis on patient care and offers authoritative, high-yield coverage of:
- Etiology and epidemiology
- Clinically relevant pathophysiology
- Signs & Symptoms
- Differential Diagnosis
- Physical and Laboratory Findings
- Therapeutics
- Practice Guidelines
NEW FEATURES
- Full-color presentation for the first time!
- Full-color images of clinical conditions encountered in dermatology, cardiology, and eye diseases
- New chapters on end-of-life care, congenital heart disease in the adult patient, non-invasive cardiac examination, and metabolic syndrome
Look for these other great Harrison’s titles:
Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 17e
Harrison’s Online available through Accessmedicine.com
Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, 17th Edition
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Fauci is a very poor scientist. He lets his own political beliefs bias his medical opinions. As he has been in high positions in NIH this serves to greatly retard medical science and cause much suffering to disabled Americans. An example is his steadfast support of Stephen Straus in his disinformation campaign on ME (aka CFS). Fauci still includes the deceased Straus’ inaccurate article as the section on ME in this edition.
Internist Paul Cheney, MD, PhD, the world’s foremost clinican and top researcher on ME said of Straus’ findings in his most (self-)publicized study, “it’s an absolute lie.” Internist Dan Peterson, also one of the world’s foremost clinicians and researchers on ME said “Stephen Straus is a snake.” Straus was still doing grand rounds in the mid- late 90’s saying possible retroviral association with ME made no sense because retroviruses cause neurological, cognitive, immunological and endocrine pathology, which aren’t prominent features of ME. These are in fact the central, disabling features of the disease. And of course quite a few bench scientists have found retroviral involvement since 1986, most recently Dan Peterson finding 95-98% of studied ME patients with antibodies to XMRV.
Rating: 1 / 5
Briefly speaking: this book is for people who are familiar with the field of Medicine. Every few years I have to get a new edition as medicine is developing so rapidly. As I am now out of the mainstream of Medicine, when I want to look up something I read this book and the Merck Manual and I look up words I don’t know in the on-line medical dictionary. That provides a fairly good intro. If I want to know more I go into the papers on PubMed. As far as I’m concerned, this book is a must-have, if you want to try to keep up with the field.
Rating: 5 / 5
This pocket manual really does contain everything you could possibly need for an excellent pocket reference during your internal medicine rotation. Also clearly references the larger text, in case you want even more information.
Rating: 5 / 5
What a wealth of information this book provides. The clinical vignettes and decision-making criteria were particularly helpful.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this Medical Manual basically because of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s involvement in it’s production. The book is indeed excellent, but Is not as informative, nor as thorough as the Merck Manual, something I’ve been using as a source of medical information for 25 years. Perhaps that’s the problem, I’m too used to the Merck. Harrison’s is written in a style that’s just a bit more simplistic than the Merck, which may be beneficial to some people who would otherwise need a Dorland’s Medical Dictionary alongside their Merck. I’m by no means saying that the Harrison’s is written for the novice, since that is certainly not the case, but when a physician is doing a quick refesher on a particular doseage, or diagnosis, you’ll find he/she will turn to the Merck, even though the information contained in it can be older than Harrison’s.
Rating: 4 / 5