Pathology, Medical Reference, Nursing Reference, Diagnosis
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Overview
Professional Guide to Diseases, 7th Edition, is the newest edition of the health care professional's guide to disease management and patient care. This complete, yet concise, reference contains more than 600 disorders, including the latest developments on emerging diseases, such as West Nile encephalitis and antibiotic-resistant infections. The book's easy-to-use format presents comprehensive disease information ranging from causes, signs and symptoms, and diagnosis through treatment and special considerations. Helpful tips and charts, anatomic drawings, and other illustrations supplement the text.The book contains both color and black-and-white illustrations.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Seymour G. Williams, MD(Baylor College of Medicine)Description: The fifth edition of Professional Guide to Diseases (PGD) is a contemporary and concise encyclopedic reference of illnesses, disorders, injuries, and their treatments.
Purpose: PGD sets out to describe over 600 diseases in a standard format: causes, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and special considerations. This is an ambitious objective and is largely accomplished in this compact volume of 1,330 pages.
Audience: This book is aimed at students and practitioners in the health professions. This book will be very useful to anyone, especially in nursing, pharmacy, medicine, etc., seeking a quick summary on a particular disease state. The various contributors and consultants are physicians and nurses with additional qualifications.
Features: Sufficient numbers of pictures, charts, and tables are included in the book to illustrate, classify, and clarify the various diseases. References at the end of each chapter allow the reader opportunity to pursue further information. The tables in this book are excellent summaries of large quantities of information.
Assessment: This is a useful book for health professionals, both students and practitioners, and for anyone seeking a concise and rapid access reference of medical diseases. The book summarizes large quantities of information in a standard format that points to the important elements of the disease. This book will best serve as a semiportable, rapid access reference about medical diseases.
Seymour G. Williams
The fifth edition of Professional Guide to Diseases (PGD) is a contemporary and concise encyclopedic reference of illnesses, disorders, injuries, and their treatments. PGD sets out to describe over 600 diseases in a standard format: causes, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and special considerations. This is an ambitious objective and is largely accomplished in this compact volume of 1,330 pages. This book is aimed at students and practitioners in the health professions. This book will be very useful to anyone, especially in nursing, pharmacy, medicine, etc., seeking a quick summary on a particular disease state. The various contributors and consultants are physicians and nurses with additional qualifications. Sufficient numbers of pictures, charts, and tables are included in the book to illustrate, classify, and clarify the various diseases. References at the end of each chapter allow the reader opportunity to pursue further information. The tables in this book are excellent summaries of large quantities of information. This is a useful book for health professionals, both students and practitioners, and for anyone seeking a concise and rapid access reference of medical diseases. The book summarizes large quantities of information in a standard format that points to the important elements of the disease. This book will best serve as a semiportable, rapid access reference about medical diseases.4 Stars! from Doody
Book Details
Published
March 1, 1995
Publisher
Springhouse, Pa. : Springhouse Corp., c1995.
Pages
1330
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780874347692