Category: Internal Medicine
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Frameworks for Internal Medicine (2018)
Frameworks for Internal Medicine (2018) is a very popular 768-page book which lays out a fairly detailed algorithmic approach to internal medicine. It is a single author book, which is a very rare accomplishment for an author of a book of this size and scope. The book employs mainly two teaching methods: the algorithmic approach…
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Tropical Medicine: A Clinical Text (2013)
Knowledge of clinical tropical medicine is essential for every modern physician. The diseases of warm climates are no longer restricted by geographical boundaries because the scope and speed of air travel … make us all part of a global community. Tropical Medicine (2013) Tropical Medicine: A Clinical Text (2013), first published in 1964, is comprised…
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Board Basics (2019)
Despite some important limitations, Board Basics (2019) is still the best single volume internal medicine review book for internists. (I reviewed a previous edition of this book elsewhere so I will restate the review and provide applicable relevant changes). Board Basics (2019) is loaded with essential and hard-to-find charts, lists, tips and answers to Board…
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Tropical Medicine Notebook (2017)
Tropical Medicine Notebook (2017) is a smallish book (about 200 pages) crammed with usefully organized text, tables and drawings to help you learn and retain virtually all key ideas in medical microbiology. It’s an ideal handbook to have on your person as you try to learn or relearn the vast field of clinical microbiology in easy-to-digest bite-sized…
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Essentials in Hematology and Clinical Pathology (2016)
Essentials in Hematology and Clinical Pathology (2016) is one of the finest hematology books in the market today, and, strangely, you can buy it new for under $30 (US). Hematology is a specialty that straddles both clinical medicine and pathology, and this book is an absolute winner on two separate levels: (1) the clinical discussions…
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Moffet’s Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 5e (2017)
I write with reverence about what I believe to be one of the best medical books of all time: Moffet’s Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 5e (2017). The main problem with tackling infectious diseases from a diagnostic standpoint is that ID can be hard to classify clinically. The traditional approach is, basically, to ask the question Does the patient have…
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The Clinical Significance of the Various Descriptions of Vomitus
Undigested food → esophageal issue (e.g., pharyngeal pouch or achalasia). Note: this is not really vomiting, but regurgitation, which is much less forceful and does not come from the stomach (and therefore not associated with nausea!) Non-bilious, with partially digested food → Gastric outlet obstruction (e.g., from peptic ulcer disease or malignancy, or from pyloric stenosis) GastroparesisVomiting…