Family Physicians Physician's Bookshelf Book Reviews Saunders Manual of Pediatric Practice Edited by Laurence Finberg. Saunders Manual of Pediatric Practice serves as a clear, precise, pertinent reference for the clinician. This textbook is an excellent resource for residents, mid-level practitioners or busy physicians needing a quick review of a subject. The textbook is divided into 22 parts, and the style is readable, with large color headings used to highlight key information.
Prevention covers nutrition, neonatology and adolescent medicine.
Diseases are covered under general topics and systems. For example, neonatology is divided into symptoms of newborns, normal newborns and disorders of newborns. I appreciate the chapter on newborn symptoms because it offers a clinically practical way to evaluate the newborn with respiratory distress, lethargy, cyanosis, pallor, plethora, vomiting, inappropriate passage of meconium, and jaundice. Separate chapters cover etiology, pathogenesis, clinical findings, laboratory findings, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. After each topic, a short bibliography is provided for further reference.