Completely updated and revised, The 5-Minute Clinical Consult, 2009 provides rapid-access information on the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of 704 medical conditions. This best-selling clinical reference is now packaged with a new, enhanced, quarterly-updated Website to ensure instant access to information at the point of care. This edition has three new Associate Editors and includes over 25 new topics. Other new highlights include more evidence-based medicine ratings (about 75% coverage); additional complementary and alternative medicine material; and updated ICD-9 codes highlighted within the text. A companion Website with a new, improved platform and search capabilities includes the fully searchable content of the book, with links to PubMed and additional topics not covered in the print book. The Website also offers over 1,000 English and Spanish patient handouts from AAFP; full-color images from Goodheart's Photoguide of Common Skin Disorders, Second Edition; videos of medical procedures; and Facts & Comparisons A to Z Drug Facts monographs with monthly updates. The Website will be updated quarterly with new content, new medical procedure videos, more diagnostic images, e-mail alerts, drug images and drug interactions, EBM pearl of the week, new lectures on medical updates, and more.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Great resource:
It's hefty, but it's worth having on your bookshelf! Good overview of common medical conditions. Very succinct and clinically oriented. Great quick Family Med resource - especially for new practitioners!
Good book:
I do like this book. Very quick and easy to look up information.
I wish I would have bought the package that included the PDA software bc I think I would use it even more.
I would like it even more if it provided acronyms to remember criterion as the USMLE books sometimes do.
Great Office Reference:
Quick, concise, and includes sources for practice recommendations. I actually bought one as a gift after mine was admired by a Family Practice D.O. that has been in practice for 28 years!
