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Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine, 7th Edition
There are comprehensive internal medicine texts and there are pocket references, and they serve completely different moments. Pocket Medicine is unambiguously the second: dense, schematic, organised by problem, and sized to live in a coat pocket for a whole rotation. Its authority comes from who writes it — residents and attending physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital — and its usefulness from how ruthlessly it strips out everything you would not consult at the bedside.
What Makes It Work
- Organised by clinical problem, so it maps onto how questions actually arise on rounds.
- Bulleted, schematic format — differential diagnoses, workups and management in scannable form rather than prose.
- Evidence-linked — key trials and guidelines cited so recommendations can be traced.
- Spiral binding that opens flat and survives a rotation.
- Covers the major systems — cardiology, pulmonary, gastroenterology, nephrology, haematology-oncology, infectious disease, endocrinology, rheumatology and neurology.
Who It Is For
- Internal medicine residents and interns.
- Medical students on clinical rotations and preparing for shelf examinations.
- Physician assistants and nurse practitioners in inpatient medicine.
- Hospitalists wanting a fast bedside cross-check.
Book Details
- Title: Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine
- Editor: Marc S. Sabatine, MD
- Edition: Seventh Edition
- Publisher: LWW (Wolters Kluwer)
- Publication date: September 6, 2019
- Format: Spiral-bound, 272 pages
- ISBN-13: 978-1975142377
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