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
- A must for any MS3's Medicine rotation!
- I've heard that this book is really only used in New England (obviously since it's published by MGH) but EVERYONE here uses it. The best recommendation for any medical book is how many people use it, and by far and away it was the book every resident had at my medicine site. The algorithms are wonderful, there's room in the back to add your own notes and the fact that it has rings and can open flat is a great touch. Plus it fits in the pocket of your white coat. The only problem my classmates and I have found is that the holes in the pages in some of the newest editions don't quite line up with the rings, which makes the pages a little hard to turn. But over all this was one of the best books I've bought for my clinical years.
- 2006-11-02, 6 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Just adding more of the same
- I have little to add to what is already written. I bought the previous edition of this book in July 2003 as I was starting my Family Medicine residency. By end of the year it was the only book I still carried with me on inpatient medicine rotations. Prior edition didn't have a decent neuro section but I understand that has been fixed. I am now in private practice and the prior edition still sits in the top right drawer of my desk at the clinic and it goes in the car with me when I am on-call.
- 2006-10-25, 0 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- DYNOMITE
- I have read this book like there is no tomorrow, and this book is excellent on the ward and off. I can't wait for the next edition. I suggest to buy it and read it.
- 2006-08-18, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- good resource for IM residents
- It's very resourceful. Just a bit heavy to carry around. I should have chosen the PDA version.
- 2006-07-18, 2 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Great for review, but you will need to go deeper
- Although I consider this to be one of the best handbooks for a quick superficial review, there are several other books which allow for more in depth learning while on the wards... such as The Consult Manual of Internal Medicine & of course... The Washington Manual. I would definitely carry around, or at least have handy, one of these while on the wards. If you get Pocket Med, make sure you get the new edition (2nd) as there is a new neurology section which is very nice.
- 2006-05-07, 11 of 11 people found this review helpful, Rated:
