Comments on: Harrison’s Manual of Medicine

By: daniela

daniela — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:05:43 +0000

Excellent manual for doctors with some experience who know exactly where to search and what.I use it to compare US Medicine to the European Medicine and on a rate of the renewal of the medical information at every 5 years,Harrison`s Handbook Manual is very usefull in daily practice.
Rating: 4 / 5

By: David McKay

David McKay — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:01:47 +0000

What a wealth of information this book provides. The clinical vignettes and decision-making criteria were particularly helpful.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: J. Steele

J. Steele — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:12:08 +0000

This pocket manual really does contain everything you could possibly need for an excellent pocket reference during your internal medicine rotation. Also clearly references the larger text, in case you want even more information.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Justin Reilly

Justin Reilly — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:58:38 +0000

Fauci is a very poor scientist. He lets his own political beliefs bias his medical opinions. As he has been in high positions in NIH this serves to greatly retard medical science and cause much suffering to disabled Americans. An example is his steadfast support of Stephen Straus in his disinformation campaign on ME (aka CFS). Fauci still includes the deceased Straus’ inaccurate article as the section on ME in this edition.

Internist Paul Cheney, MD, PhD, the world’s foremost clinican and top researcher on ME said of Straus’ findings in his most (self-)publicized study, “it’s an absolute lie.” Internist Dan Peterson, also one of the world’s foremost clinicians and researchers on ME said “Stephen Straus is a snake.” Straus was still doing grand rounds in the mid- late 90’s saying possible retroviral association with ME made no sense because retroviruses cause neurological, cognitive, immunological and endocrine pathology, which aren’t prominent features of ME. These are in fact the central, disabling features of the disease. And of course quite a few bench scientists have found retroviral involvement since 1986, most recently Dan Peterson finding 95-98% of studied ME patients with antibodies to XMRV.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: lanoitan

lanoitan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:23:14 +0000

Briefly speaking: this book is for people who are familiar with the field of Medicine. Every few years I have to get a new edition as medicine is developing so rapidly. As I am now out of the mainstream of Medicine, when I want to look up something I read this book and the Merck Manual and I look up words I don’t know in the on-line medical dictionary. That provides a fairly good intro. If I want to know more I go into the papers on PubMed. As far as I’m concerned, this book is a must-have, if you want to try to keep up with the field.
Rating: 5 / 5