Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine An Introductory Manual

This new edition is fully updated to address and include: significant changes in hospital environments, including managed care delivery methodologies, how Medicare and Medicaid work, and the role of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other ancillary hospital personnel; patient screening recommendations from agencies such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the American Cancer Society; convenient lists of common drug reactions and commonly used alternative and complementary medicine treatment modalities; descriptions of common bedside procedures; and expanded, commonly used medical abbreviations and acronyms. Students benefit from a convenient handbook that offers a crucial link between basic sciences years and the hospital experience, and are aided in achieving mastery of proper physical diagnosis and medical work-up for accurate diagnosis. Includes concise disease patho-physiology reviews.Chaudhry, Humayun J. is the author of 'Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine An Introductory Manual', published 2004 under ISBN 9780781751926 and ISBN 0781751926.