The Hands–on Guide for House Officers - Softcover

Donald, Anna; Stein, Mike; Muthu, Vivek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0632053313 ISBN 13: 9780632053315

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

The second edition of The Hands–On Guide for House Officers is a practical book for junior doctors and medical students making the transition from Medical School to life on the Wards. This book tells you how to prepare for the actual daily rigours of hospital life and is an essential guide for surviving your first year as a doctor.

The Hands–On Guide for House Officers covers both the personal aspects of being a doctor and the day–to–day reality of responding to acute emergencies, dealing with common calls and carrying out practical procedures. It tells you:

· what to expect in the first week
· how to prescribe and give drugs
· how to run your own night rounds, tone down your bleep and get more sleep
· how to organize paperwork and work through the mass of hospital forms
· how to arrange your finances, understand tax and maximize your pension
· how to practise evidence–based medicine
· how to discharge patients, talk to fraught relatives
· how to select a computer, start your own medical database and organize your next job
· how to insert central lines, perform chest drains and read ECGs
· how to manage GI bleeds, overdoses and oliguria
· how to prepare diabetic patients for surgery

The first edition of this best–selling book helped thousands of anxious doctors through their first year. Why not see for yourself how it can help you?!

About this title

About the Author

Anna Donald, is CEO, Bazian Ltd and Clinical Lecturer, School of Public Policy, UCL. She is also Kennedy Fellow, Harvard University

Mike Stein is Project Director, Medic–to–Medic, Royal Free Hospital.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0632053313
• ISBN 13: 9780632053315
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 272