Washington Manual Outpatient Medicine Survival Guide

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Grace A. Lin, Jill E. Elwing, Gregory Sayuk
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003 - Medical - 356 pages

Written by Washington University house staff and faculty, this pocket-sized survival guide provides all the essential information that every intern needs from Day 1 in the outpatient clinic. The book covers the most common diseases and situations encountered in an outpatient setting and includes sections on key history and physical examination findings, and red flags to look for. Content includes algorithms, common calls and complaints, key points on most common problems, essentials of "what not to miss" and "when to refer/call for help," and "what to tell the patient."

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Contents

Keys to Survival
1
Approach to the Outpatient Setting
2
Tools of the Trade
7
Telephone Triage
11
Test Interpretation
16
Useful Formulae
24
Health Maintenance and Preventive Medicine
28
Cardiology
46
Mens Health
187
Neurology
194
Ophthalmology
205
Orthopedics
211
Psychiatry
235
Pulmonary
241
Renal Diseases
268
Womens Health
282

Dermatology
79
Endocrinology
93
Ear Nose and Throat Diseases
114
Geriatrics
129
Gastroenterology
140
Hematology
159
Infectious Diseases
166
Miscellaneous Subjects
301
Procedures
328
Final Touches
333
Patient Data Tracking Form
334
Index
335
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About the author (2003)

Grace Lin won the Newbery Honor award for her novel "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon".

Bibliographic information

TitleWashington Manual Outpatient Medicine Survival Guide
Washington manual survival guide series
EditorsGrace A. Lin, Jill E. Elwing, Gregory Sayuk
Editionillustrated
PublisherLippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003
ISBN0781743656, 9780781743655
Length356 pages
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Medical / Family & General Practice
Medical / Internal Medicine
Medical / Test Preparation & Review
  
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