Editorial Review:

BONUS CD-ROM features patient sheets in both English and Latin American Spanish allowing readers to customize and print out sheets from their computer! The new edition of this popular patient teaching tool improves compliance, speeds recovery, and increases understanding. Hundreds of fact sheets help patients understand what their illness is, how it will affect their regular routine, and when to call a doctor. Readers can simply tear out the appropriate pages, photocopy them, and distribute them to patients when discussing follow-up care. * 500 topics includes "most common" as well as "less common" disorders encountered in outpatient and inpatient settings * Includes descriptions of each illness, including frequent signs and symptoms, possible causes, risks, preventive measures, expected outcomes, possible complications, and treatments. * Customizable Sheets! Extra space allows for typed or handwritten notes for patients!

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Pretty good, room for improvement...:

The number of conditions included in the book is very good. The organization makes it easy to find what you are looking for. The use one page per condition is easy for storing and printing, but I do wonder what has been left out for the sake of saving pages. I havn't looked that deeply into this yet. Still, the one page format is very handy. I also like that the pages are perforated especially now that I have tried the CD and found it lacking. This is the reason for the poorer than usual score I gave. The... more info

Griffith's Instructions for Patients, Seventh Edition:

This is a valuable resource for any doctor's office. I use it every day. It is very clearly and logically written.

Beware of CD-ROM:

This series of books have been very helpful in my practice. I currently use the 6th edition. I was excited that the Spanish translation for handouts is included on the CD-ROM. However, there is one crucial difference: With the 6th edition the contents can be INSTALLED on your computer (and the CD then stored). Then topics can be searched and printed per PDF files/Acrobat reader. In the 6th edition, each topic print out is ONE page. HOWEVER, with the 7th edition, the CD-ROM MUST BE in the cd drive to work.... more info

A Reference Standard:

Intended to be a compendium of handouts for physicians to give to patients, Griffith's Instructions provides information on a wide variety of illnesses. From croup to tooth grinding, this book covers maladies both small, i.e. indigestion, and large, i.e. congestive heart failure, in a consistent, matter-of fact presentation. All of the perforated, pull out discussions include basic descriptions of the illness, including the frequent signs and symptoms, a brief synopsis of possible causes, risks,... more info

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