Cecil Textbook of Medicine e-dition: Text with Continually Updated Online Reference, 2-Volume Set - Hardcover

Goldman MD, Lee; Ausiello MD, Dennis Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0721645631 ISBN 13: 9780721645636

Publisher: Saunders, 2004

Synopsis

So thoroughly revised and improved, you have to see it to believe it! This 22nd Edition has been completely updated to keep you absolutely current. At the same time, major enhancements such as a superb new full-colour design and internal navigation system make this the most user-friendly Cecil ever!

This multimedia package includes the 22nd Edition of the textbook and access to the state-of-the-art website!

The textbook delivers over 2,670 pages and 1,150 illustrations (1,100 in full color) of todays most effective guidance in the entire fieldplus it also includes a bonus image bank CD-ROM!

At www.cecilmedicine.com, you can search the contents of the bookright from your desktop or laptop. You'll also access continuous updates, links to relevant websites, additional topic indexing covering cardinal signs and symptoms, Drug alerts, and self-assessment questions and answers, plus a weekly Cecils Challenge case!

About this title

Review:

"In its comprehensive yet practical approach, this work exceeds its predecessors...all practitioners will find this book to be a ready reference as well as an excellent review.Students will continue to depend on it. Underlined and noted, it will be on the shelves of many future physicians. The authors are once again some of the most eminent physicians and educators in the world...This continues to be one of the most outstanding textbooks of medicine ever written, and this edition could well be the best yet. The online resources available to the book's owner greatly amplify the text's usefulness.I'm not sure if a single book could ever be described as comprehensive as to be the only medicine text a physician might need, but this work indeed comes close. 5 stars!" -Doody's Book Review Service "Cecil textbook of Medicine, which ranks among the best medical textbooks in longevity, comprehensiveness, tradition, and use by practitioners and students alike...Reflecting new evidence-based standards, US Preventive Services Task Force Grade A evidence is highlighted within the text and cited at the conclusion of each chapter. This adds a methodologically rigorous approach to the diagnosis and management of diseases, which is necessary to practice sate-of-art medicine in a society increasingly focused on preventable errors. The text has full color with useful color-coded diagnostic and treatment algorithms...[Cecil Online] gives users real time access to a dynamic, expandable, and highly interactive e-version of the textbook. Goldman and Ausiello make a fine pairing, one a clinician-researcher, the other a physician-scientist. They have done a superb job of melding the best of the old Cecil with the sensibilitie and technology of 21st century medicine. The book links explicitly fundamental clinicalm bench, and public health research with evidence-based clinical medicine, with a particular eye toward common clinical problems.This emphasis infuses Cecil with utility for students, practitioners, and researchers alike...Goldman and Ausiello have given the 22nd edition of this venerable textbook a 21st century remodeling, which sets a new standard that others are sure to follow". -JAMA, September 8, 2004-Vol 292, NO 10

About the Author:

Dennis Ausiello is the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital. Harvard enjoys a co-ranking of #1 along with Johns Hopkins as the top US Internal Medicine training program.

About this edition

• Publisher: Saunders
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0721645631
• ISBN 13: 9780721645636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 207