Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2003

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Summary: Comprehensive and Thorough
Review: Current Medicine is right up there among the top few reference books. It has excellent chapters in Cardiology, Infectious diseases and Respiratory medicine. One of the key features is the references of the latest articles at the end of every topic that is covered. This is book is worth every cent that is spent to buy it, a truly productive investment of time and money....a must buy for students who want to ace their exams.

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Summary: USEFUL & COST EFFECTIVE
Review: Everyone has a few books they constantly refer to in their library. This is one of mine. The whole CURRENT series is excellent & I update every new issue as soon as it is available. Ideal reference with clear concise text & pictures throughout the book

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Summary: The medical bible of current theory
Review: For the practitioner or the patient everything you want to know about Current Diagnosis and therapy is here.

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Summary: concepts made easy
Review: Good reference when you want to have a general idea of an argument and have short time for further consultations.

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Summary: Thorough and very informative
Review: I bought this book based on the recommendations of the other reviewers and I have been endlessly impressed. It is excellent value for money. The research and references are up to date and all the information is set out in the most logical manner. I bought it as a second year Naturopathic student and have used it almost daily when dealing with all my subjects. Any students out there hesitating, don't... BUY THIS BOOK.

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Summary: A quick and very usefull font of medical information
Review: I had bought my first current series textbook in 1996.It was the emergencies book.Since that I bougth Medical,Paediatrics and Surgery books.The hallmark of this series is the very simple language and the exact deep information of the topics covered in those books. Current medical diagnosis and treatment is a essencial book for physicians and medical students in my country (BRAZIL).This book is listed in examinations tests to admition in several institutions here.To read CMDT creates a wide expertise in diseases at all over fields of medicine since dermatology to cardiology passing for psychiatry,neurology , ginaecology and other medical areas. Quick,simple,cheap and very usefull.A cost-efective medical textbook.

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Summary: Current: always retire us of emergency situations
Review: I'm a brazilian medicine student. Here in Brazil "Current" is a Top pf Mind among quickly consultant books. Really, it approaches the most importants issues of the medical cotidian.

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Summary: good
Review: It is a very good and useful book. It has everything you'd want in it plus more. It includes the signs and syptoms, what you can do to treat the problem, etc. I just wish that it had pictures in it so you could have more to go off of.

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Summary: Must have!
Review: It is VERY nice book. Especially for medical students and residents.
You can understand from detail to basic of diseases. With this book, you know how to approach and make your list of differential diagnosis.
I worked for infectious disease patients for a while, and this book was very useful because you can get the general knowledge not only about infectious diseases but also general internal medicine, skin lesions, bone diseases, and so on. I especially recommend the chart of antibiotics(Chart 37). I like this book because we can also get the update etiology of diseases. So nice.

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Summary: gastroenterology
Review: The chapter on gastroenterology is excellent. I have found this book as the only concise and comprehensive text available to the postgraduates in the field of Medicine worldwide.