Ferri’s Practical Guide: Fast Facts for Patient Care E-Book: Ferri’s Practical Guide: Fast Facts for Patient Care E-Book, Edition 9

Fred F. Ferri

Mar 2014 · Elsevier Health Sciences

About this ebook

For nearly 25 years, Ferri's concise, pocket-sized resource has served as the go-to reference for practical, clinical information among students, residents, and other medical professionals. Formerly known as Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient, this volume continues to provide a fast, effective, and efficient way to identify the important clinical, laboratory, and diagnostic imaging information you need to get through your internal medicine clerkship or residency.

• Consult this title on your favorite device, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability.
• Benefit from the expert guidance of Dr. Fred Ferri, a leading teacher, clinician, and author.

• Confidently manage patients

with the latest clinical information, drug therapies, and lab tests.

• Apply the latest knowledge and techniques
with this updated and streamlined title, which still stays true to the Ferri name.
• Quickly find important information with content organized into three major sections: Section I, titled "Surviving the Wards," contains information on charting, laboratory evaluation and formulary; Section II provides the differential diagnosis of common signs and symptoms likely to be encountered in the acute care setting; Section III has been completely revised and subdivided into 11 specialty specific diseases and disorders.
• Carry just the sections you need, add personalized materials, and keep everything together and safe with an improved ring binder and design.
• Access the full text and procedural videos online at Expert Consult.

About the author

Fred Ferri is a Clinical Professor of Community Health at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University and author of over 30 medical books. He has been the best-selling medical author in the United States over the past 25 years and is also well known and respected internationally. He has been a visiting Professor at other medical schools and many of his books have been translated in several languages. In addition to his numerous publications, he has had a distinguished academic career at Brown University where he has received several awards for his dedication to teaching including the Brown University Excellence in Teaching award and Dean’s teaching Award, and with the American College of Physicians where he was inducted as a Fellow in the ACP and has been a recipient of the Irving Addison Beck Award from the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Ferri is a practicing physician at Ocean State Medical, a group primary care practice that he established in 1984 and still runs along with two other partners and his two sons.