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The ultimate clinical companion: know what the experts know — and make it part of your practice! In this trusted text, you’ll find the most current insights into symptoms, signs, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment for over 1,000 diseases and disorders. Turn to any topic, and you’ll find on-the-spot answers to your questions for both hospital and ambulatory medicine. This streamlined, authoritative reference gets you up to speed-fast-on the latest medical… More >>
Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2008
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#1 by Jacqualine A. Ludvigsen on January 28, 2010 - 3:08 pm
This is an excellent book. Full of updated information. An extremely good reference source. Easy to use. I feel this book is a “must have” for any medical personal or for those interested in medicine.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Barbie on January 28, 2010 - 5:06 pm
This book was recommended to me by a friend. I LOVE it!! It is a must have!
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Eva Vaverka on January 28, 2010 - 8:06 pm
The best book to refresh ideas on every disease. Diagnostic flow-charts and therapies. Precious for any intenist.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Pre_Med_09 on January 28, 2010 - 9:09 pm
I thought this book was very interesting and informative to a pre-med student. I’m not in med schools yet, but love to read about medical related things.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Silver Bullet on January 28, 2010 - 11:51 pm
Having owned many previous editions of this book, I have to say that I am somewhat disappointed by the amount of material that is available only online for a substantial fee (relatively, compared to previous free online content, or even the street price of the print edition). Some of the online information surely could have been incorporated into this edition. Most of the algorithms that appeared in previous editions have been left out, and let’s face it folks, most of those haven’t changed at all since the 2007, or even the 1997 editions. I am not inclined, however, to grab a bunch of older editions off my bookshelf to find them. A lot of very important basic pharmacology that appeared in older editions has been left out of the 2008 print edition. I don’t keep old texts and references on the shelves anyway. I am a D.D.S., M.D. with an undergraduate background in pharmacology, so I picked up on much of the missing stuff right away, just leafing through. Even with the negatives associated with this edition, I will likely buy future editions because there just isn’t another reference with this much in a single volume that is as concise and easy to find. I am used to grabbing this book for a quick summary of dx and tx that I don’t treat a lot. I do head and neck surgery, and I just don’t see patients with Cushing’s or Tetralogy of Fallot for cripe’s sake! Wading through Harrison’s Int. Medicine or a two volume cardiology text is something I am not going to do while a patient is sitting in an exam room waiting for me to reappear. I’ll use my CMDT though. One can nitpick on virtually anything that is “new” or “different”. So let’s be honest, most of us who really use this thing can easily afford the $79 for online access, and most of us who have used a number of previous editions will continue to use CMDT unless it evolves into something totally worthless, and that’s just not going to happen.
Rating: 3 / 5