Primary Care Medicine: Office Evaluation and Management of the Adult Patient, 6th Edition 6th Edition

I bought my first copy of this book in when I was in graduate school in the Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Pennsylvania. A heroic thing, since it was predicted at that time that the role of the Nurse Practitioner would "disappear". This book was the required text for the program. I have continued to use this book because of how it approaches primary care. If you look at the Table of Contents, you will see that it is divided up into system problems. Then, it discusses screening, evaluation of a symptom and management of a diagnosis under each system. Under evaluation of a symptom, it comprehensively discusses differential diagnoses followed by History Questions and Physical Exam findings to look for during the evaluation of the symptom. I have simply found this to be a *very* helpful approach. As adjunct faculty now, I recommend this book to Nurse Practitioner and Medical students. I am always surprised they don't know about this book. It is simply the best for *primary care*. I have purchased every edition of this book. I put the most recent in my office at home, the last edition in my office in the clinic and the edition before that at the nurses station at the hospital.

For an office based physician this thouroghly updated and referenced text-book offers the best evidence based information in short time of turning fewer pages. I use it more than Harrison's text-book as it more SOAP related and better cross-referenced.The editors of this brand-book made current changes, making it state of the art standard-bearer of text-books for any practicing physician. Moreover, my money is well spend when I bought this from Amazon.com store that let be browse books before I buy and has Nordstrom like sevice that makes book buying a dream.Tariq Ahmed, MD MPH, Kirkland, Washington.

Was wary of a Harvard text book not being succinct and also afraid the ebook format would be problematic. This book is very helpful outlining standards of care relatively concisely. As far as the ebook format being a problem I have it on my iPhone where its very handy. Of course thumbing thru pages is harder in that format and I am considering getting a hard copy as well to use at home.

The most useful thing about this book is that a substantial part of it is organized by complaint rather than disease process. I mean, no one presents to your office and says "I have BPPV" or "I've had a vertebral artery dissection". Well, maybe if they've Googled it they could do that. A great book to go back to and read up on things, but not a quick and dirty reference.

Love this book as a primary care physician. Highly recommended.I originally had an earlier edition and thoroughly enjoyed it. Makes for good reading as a review of problems encountered in the clinic. I usually supplement it with online searches such as Up To Date.

Useful for office practice

Excellent test & reference! I find it so useful that I purchase an updated edition every decade or so.

Great book! Used this during PA school as well as in clinical rotations. Is now a very good reference to use as a PA

Easy to read despite the thickness. Very informative.