The Osler Medical Handbook: The Johns Hopkins Hospital

by Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Jonathan Paul Piccini, Kent R. Nilsson

Book Overview

This brand-new handbook covers all of the essential topics encountered in the daily practice, written by contributors from the Johns Hopkins Hospital. A volume in the Mosby Handbook series, it concisely discusses all diseases and disorders in an easy-to-follow, standardized outline format. Readers will find all of the features that have made The Harriet Lane Handbook the most popular handbook in paediatrics. Within each chapter are sections...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323019307
• ISBN13: 9780323019309
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 1376 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 4.3" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

I did not know how much I needed this book.

If you need a quick, authoratative review of internal medicine, and approaches to diagnosis and treatment, this is the one book to have. It not only gets you through the night, it also helps you present and discuss the case on rounds. Handy size. Not too much. Not too little. This will definitely give the Washington Manual a run for the money. My advice. Get both.

Fantastic book, would prefer it to be thinner.

For a first edition this book is amazing. As a medicine intern going on to second year, I too find it more useful than the Washington Manual, though the two books clearly have different purposes. As I said in the title, I wish this book were more pocketable (it fits, but is heavy). The first thing I would get rid of would be the formulary. I understand that the formulary is part of what has made the Harriet Lane book so successful, but it is a waste of space to put a formulary in a handbook of Internal Medicine.*Amin Sabet

Student of Medicine

What a fantastic book! Similar to the Harriet Lane handbook for kids, this book has useful differentials, management plans, and treatments for the comprehensive evaluation of adults. Great coverage with useful algorithms. Also summarizes common errors or pitfalls. Many chapters with a heavy evidence-base when available. Formulary not as useful as Harriet Lane. Overall, FAR superior to the Washington Manual. Strongly recommended for students and all residents (not just internal med) caring for adults.