Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, FL. Second author, Thomas Stair is with Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Practical step-by-step guide to handling common, nonlife-threatening emergencies. Includes line drawings. For students, residents, and clinicians. Foreward states the 'first edition' was titled Common Simple Emergencies, c1985. Softcover.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Good resource:
This is a good resource. Provides good information on many topics, and provides specific information.
Just what you've been looking for.:
Just as the introduction promises, full of just what you wanted to know about all the things that are too simple to be taught in medical school or on your ER rotation, but that you nevertheless weren't born knowing. As a recent graduate from Family Medicine residency, I keep this with me anywhere I'm seeing patients.
This book came recommended to me, so I didn't shop around much, but I can't imagine a better urgent care reference. It also has most of what you need for office procedures, though still... more info
Urgent Care Centers/Emergency Departments should not be without!:
This book should be stocked in Emergency Departments/Urgent Care Centers as a necessary piece of equipment. Great for nurses!!!
Remote Medical Resource:
Minor Emergences is making the rounds as the resource to have in the remote field. I'm a medic that works in isolated camps or offshore vessels with the closest MD available only via phone or email. Sometimes evacuating a patient to a higher level of care is not an easy thing to do or even a possibility. Being able to take care of minor problems and recognizing when you cannot is always a consideration. While no book or manual could possibly take the place of adequate training it sure is nice to have such a... more info
