Outpatient Medicine

By Stephan D. Fihn and M.D. Fihn, Stephan D.

This reference comprises summaries of over 200 common outpatient conditions to help readers determine the best approaches for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. Arranged by organ system, each section provides pertinent information on screening procedures, common symptoms, problems and syndromes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 072163480X
• ISBN13: 9780721634807
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company
• Length: 701 Pages

Customer Reviews

Timely Resource for Outpatient Clerkships

This text has been a key resource for my outpatient clerkships. Each chapter addresses a specific presenting problem or known illness, but is summarized in 1-2 pages only. Efficient algorithms and tables increase retrieval of information during the few minutes students have to assimilate their assessment and differential diagnosis before presenting to attendings. A chapter can be read in 5 minutes or less and covers approach, differential, and latest treatment options. This text has been critical to my outpatient medicine and family medicine clerkships!

A superior resource.

This book's liberal use of tables and algorithms provide excellent overview of the concise, up-to-date text. It is perfect for briefly reviewing current standards in clinical assessment and diagnostic testing between patient visits in a busy outpatient clinic. I will recommend this fairly compact reference to my medical school classmates -- it should be strongly suggested as a textbook for internal medicine and family medicine core clerkship curricula.

Excellent resource

I am on the faculty at the University of Washington Medical School (I am not one of the authors and was not involved in the preparation of Outpatient Medicine in any capacity). I have used this book in my own clincal practice and as a reference in preparing lectures for students. I have found it to be extremely useful. It provides brief, accessible, clinically relevant reviews of the questions and issues that confront busy clinicians in the outpatient clinic. The format makes it useful as a clinical tool in contrast to those volumes that one plans to get around to reading later.

A must-have for anyone working in the clinics!

I have used this book during my out-patient and in-patient rotations. Each chapter deals with a specific problem or symptom and is easily read in the few minutes one has between patients. In addition, all of the information is up-to-date and referenced at the end of each chapter for further reading.