Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine (Pocket Notebook Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Marc S Sabatine
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 541
Media: Ring-bound
Edition: 3
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0781771447
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780781771443
ASIN: 0781771447
Publication Date: August 1, 2007
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Prepared by residents and attending physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, this pocket-sized looseleaf is one of the best-selling references for medical students, interns, and residents on the wards and candidates reviewing for internal medicine board exams. In bulleted lists, tables, and algorithms, Pocket Medicine provides key clinical information about common problems in cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, nephrology, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, rheumatology, and neurology. The six-ring binder resembles the familiar "pocket brain" notebook that most students and interns carry and allows users to add notes. This Third Edition is fully updated, has tabs to help readers locate organ systems, and has more cross-referencing in the index. It also has pockets in the front and the back of the book to accommodate the reader's own notes.
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 Standard of Care June 13, 2001
Mitch (San Antonio, TX United States)
77 out of 92 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, the previous reviews have failed to adequately address the role and purpose of this publication. Pocket Medicine, at least as I have used it, is the most concise and accurate reference for the practice of Internal Medicine in the United States as conducted at most teaching institutions today. It essentially covers all the major organ systems and disease processes as the most recent literature and textbooks recommend. Possession of this book will allow students, residents and staff to give patients the best care possible from evidence based medicine. You will shine on the wards and at morning report with this material. In fact, you could easily pass the Internal Medicine board certification exam if you knew everything in this book. For those practicing internal medicine from med students on up, it renders Scut Monkey, Ferre, Wash Manual, tarascon ICU books etc, all obsolete. Just look at the section about Swan Ganz monitoring -it's all there. Look at microscopic polyangiitis- it's all there. These are all real patients I've treated and this book works. More than half of the residents, students and staff in my hospital use it. Even surgeons own it. As medicine becomes more complex and scientifically based, publications such as this will be the only way to keep up. In fact, it's very inexpensive for what you get. One caution is that it may be too advanced for 3rd year med students with a poor knowledge base. A wash manual may be a simpler way to start. Unfortunately, those people who gave it a poor review have simply demonstrated their complete ignorance of the modern scientific practice of medicine. I simply hope they never treat any of my relatives!
Nice Summary September 4, 2000
Charles Runels, MD
19 out of 32 found this review helpful
This book covers 80% of the information given this year at the Harvard "Intensive Review of Internal Medicine."
Replaces all my other pocket guides! January 22, 2008
Kristi in Rochester (Rochester, NY United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Pocket Medicine is an outstanding quick reference, covering an astonishing amount of information in a small notebook.
During spare moments, I can review the well-designed chapters. When I need a reference, the facts are laid out in a clear and logical format, and referenced to journals and studies where appropriate.
A more complete index is the one thing I would add to this book, but that's a small quibble. It's easy enough to add notations to the back of the book, or add a few extra pages (the binder takes standard six-ring refills, such as FiloFax Personal pages).
My pockets are lighter since I found Pocket Medicine.
Shockingly complete and thorough. December 20, 2004
G. Geiger (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
At my institution, virtually all of the students and housestaff that use a pocket manual use this one. Unbelievably complete and succinct, this book made my internal medicine clerkship much easier. I used this book every single day and found it to be the best book I have found for the wards to date. I only wish there was a surgical counterpart for this book.
A MUST-HAVE pocket reference for residents January 17, 2006
F. Paz
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Read an UpToDate article and then read about that topic in Pocket Medicine and you will see 99% of the information from Uptodate but in concise format, including references to key articles. This book is packed with information. However, it's more in bullet and table format than in paragraph form, so not easy to read from if you're learning about a topic for the first time. More of a reference to the key points in each disease process assuming that you know a little about it beforehand. For that, you need 5 minute clinical consults or something similar. Also, the index could use some more cross-indexing, it can be tough to find subjects sometimes if you are in a hurry. It's available for handhelds too...haven't tried it yet though.
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