Medical Student's Pocket Reference, 2000 Edition

By Ken Bookstein and bookstein

Book Overview

Pocket-sized quick reference for medical students. Presents clinically oriented material organized by organ system. Within each organ system, diseases are grouped into logical categories. Outline... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966064534
• ISBN13: 9780966064537
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Bookstein Publishing
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Great reference book

As a resident i obviously use different kinda books and guides than med students. going through all my books resently i found this pocket guide i used to carry around as a med student. it did help me a lot. in 21 century with PDAs and commonly used 5min clinical consult this book is WAY better. i am sure if it will come out in PDA/Pocket PC format it will become pretty popular among med students again.

Greatest book ever

I am one of those people who buys every book. I buy the textbooks, the review books and the pocket guides. This single book can replace most of them and is very small. If you don't have young acute vision you will probably want a page magnifier. It lacks pictures, but if it can be said in text, it is probably in this book. You would be surprised by what this book can say in text, including anatomy descriptions for blood vessels and muscles. I can't wait for the new addition to come out! If you are a medical student then GET THIS BOOK!

Makes me look smart

I've bought this book twice, as a colleague ran off with my first copy. Residents and interns regularly peak over my shoulder during rounds to read the microscopic lines which invariably provide the answers to the attending's questions. Flipping through it, I run into these topics as a sampling: Banana sign, cholesteatoma, the precise definition of tachycardia, Hepatitis B serology, target cells, EKG findings and how to read the EKG to begin with, causes of hoarseness, duct ectasia, heart sounds, seven causes of increased amylase, six causes of increased CK, Vein of Galen malformation, degrees of birth canal lacerations, tumor staging, SSRI adverse reactions, kinds of goiter, what captopril renography is, the vector for Dengue fever, my mother's maiden name, and the secret location of Jimmy Hoffa's body. Ok those last two I haven't found yet, but they're probably here... just give me some time. This book is almost as small as a Tarascon's Pharmacopeia or a Maxwell's. It's so small that I'm often scrambling for it in my huge pockets. It's indispensable and well worth double the current price.

Medical Student's Pocket Reference: An Unsolicited Review

Okay, you're standing there at rounds in a post-call daze, you and your whole white-coated team gathered around the mystery patient du jour, and somebody questions "kala azar." In the sort of horror so familiar to medical trainees, you recall that a disease named kala azar exists, but beyond that you draw a total blank. So you reach in your pocket and casually, not quite covertly, pull out Dr. Bookstein's book and check the index. Page 250. Where you find the section about leishmaniasis, and you skim for a moment until the floodgates of memory open and you recall the mumbling tropical medicine professor, and the slides of the parasite in the RE cells, and sandflies, and you recall too that the patient had travelled in India, and suddenly you are transformed from post-call moron to the glowing Star of Rounds.This is what Dr. Bookstein's book does the best: it jogs the memory, while providing enough hard data to fill in many if not all the blanks. And it does so remarkably well; it is difficult to find a disorder that is not at least mentioned (and usually discussed) in this physically tiny book (322 pages, 5 oz). The information density is incredible, exceeding any other medical text I have seen and approaching that of The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. This is achieved in part by judicious writing/editing and in part by minuscule (but still readable) print.The book is arranged in outline form, and is easy to navigate and often fun to browse. There is even a thoughtful essay on the future of medical education, in the back where it might be too easily missed.The only unfortunate aspect of this book is its title. Sure, we are ALL students of medicine from professor on down, but the title may make interns and residents reluctant to use the book, which would be a pity. NOBODY knows it all, and nobody can lug around a full-scale medical text. Dr. Bookstein's book is the best all-round medical brain supplement I know, and if you don't tuck it in the pocket of your white coat (where it fits quite nicely), there will surely come a time when you wish you had.