Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend 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… Product details and pricing info |
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57 Customer Reviews Posted
- Excellent and handy!
- This is an excellent book for the wards that allows you to look up etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic workup, and management for many conditions you see in the hospital. It's not too much that you would get lost in details, and it's not too little that it leaves you with no idea of what to do. I see just about every Medicine resident carrying one around, and it has helped me just as a medical student so I highly recommend this book. I wish I'd had it when I was doing my Family Medicine rotation too because it would have been useful in the hospital then as well, and I also saw Family Medicine residents carrying around this book as well. I do want to point out that it is NOT a textbook, and if you would like something more of a text, perhaps you should try Washington Manual.
It also includes a section on ICU meds, antibiotics, formulas, etc. It's such a great book, and you'd be surprised how much valuable info is in here! I also love this book because it is small enough that it is not weighing down my white coat (I already have enough weight in my pockets as it is). - 2007-11-12, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- survival guide
- As a chief resident, we purchased this for our incoming interns to replace the previous survival guide. This is EBM medicine, with sources provided. I used this to study for IM boards along with medstudy and mksap with good results. I would read medstudy, then use this book to paraphrase what i just read and get "bullet-points." very effective on wards. better for inpt >outpt management. pretty amazing bang for its buck and the book i take with me everywhere.
- 2007-11-03, 4 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Indispensible
- A must have for Internal Medicine rotations as medical student or resident. Not great for learning topics in depth the first time, but the high yield bullets and diagrams let you manage most of the big topics.
- 2007-10-17, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Must have for the med-student or resident.
- But you already knew that. Just buy it already!
- 2007-05-23, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- One of the best internal medicine handbook
- One of the best. Buy this one if you would only buy one. Very readable.
- 2007-05-13, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
