Title: Fundamentals of clinical medicine
Description: This new edition is fully updated to address and include: significant changes in hospital environments, including managed care delivery methodologies, how Medicare and Medicaid work, and the role of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other ancillary hospital personnel; patient screening recommendations from agencies such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the American Cancer Society; convenient lists of common drug reactions and commonly used alternative and complementary medicine treatment modalities; and expanded, commonly used medical abbreviations and acronyms. Students benefit from a convenient handbook that offers a crucial link between basic sciences years and the hospital experience, and are aided in achieving mastery of proper physical diagnosis and medical work-up for accurate diagnosis. Includes concise disease pathophysiology reviews.
Subjects: Clinical medicine, Internal Medicine, Diagnosis, Handbooks, manuals, Handbooks