Clinician's Guide to Laboratory Medicine: A Practical Approach (Book + Pocket-Sized Guide, ISBN 193059898x)

by Sana Isa-Pratt and Samir P. Desai

Book Overview

...unique reference that provides the clinician with rapid answers to laboratory questions arising in the day-to-day care of patients...includes over 200 differential diagnoses and 50 algorithms This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930598742
• ISBN13: 9781930598744
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Lexi-Comp
• Length: 891 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the best bedside books purchased!!!

Well worth the money, easy to use, helps formulate a diff dx based off of labs. Has helped me through my hospital rotation.

Excellent book

I found this book to be extremely helpful during basic science, especially in case-based classes or lectures, my savior on the wards, and it has continued to serve me well during residency. This book is well written, providing enough background information as to facillitate use by medical students but also providing more advanced explainations for those at a higher level. The flow charts for the interpretation and evaluation of abnormal laboratory values are very helpful. I would highly recommend this book. There used to be a pocket companion with the flow charts available, but I haven't seen it listed in a while. It does not provide the in depth explainations found in the larger book, but is much more practicle for carrying in your pocket on call.

Useful and concise book about laboratory medicine

This book contains a lot of clinically relvant information which is easily accessible to the busy reader.This guide can be read as a whole or it can serve as a reference book. In every case the book can be recommended to medical students as well as to experienced doctors.

excellent overview

As a physician I have referenced many books on laboratory medicine. This is by far one of the best for providing a concise,understandable, and more importantly, practical means of understanding laboratory tests and their clinical relevance.

A Great Book to Learn From

Dr. Desai's book is thorough and well organized; a fantastic reference to help you work through case studies and patient admissions. It is most useful for meticulous internal medicine patient write-ups. I highly recommend it to all med students, especially those going into the clinical years.