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Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Volume 1
Coming August 2004:
The 16th Edition of "HARRISON'S PRINCIPLES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE" THE NEW COLOR OF MEDICINE HUNDREDS OF DIAGRAMS AND CLINICAL PHOTOS INTEGRATED INTO THE TEXT - FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FULL COLOR
*This description refers to the first volume of a two-volume set.
The "Harrison's" name is synonymous with internal medicine. HPIM continues to be the most authoritative and #1 selling medical textbook throughout the world. From its unique section on signs and symptoms through to the most comprehensive coverage of most all conditions seen by physician's, "Harrison's" is the internal medicine reference of choice. "Harrison's" 16th Edition features new, expanded, revised and updated material on the key topics in medical practice today. From the latest research findings to up-to-the-minute advances in diagnostic and treatment methodologies, "Harrison's" puts the facts you need at your fingertips.
The 16th Edition improves on a winning formula with:
*State-of-the-art coverage of over 4,700 diseases and disorders--more than any other internal medicine text - in the areas of oncology and hematology; infectious diseases; cardiology; pulmonology; gastroenterology; clinical immunology; rheumatology; endocrinology; and neurology
*A brand new full color format--665 full color drawings, 175 clinical and laboratory images, and hundreds of boxes, tables, and algorithms that use color to guide you to the information you need ASAP in everyday patient care
*Thorough revision and updates of virtually all chapters
*The addition of key new chapters - including extensive new coverage of Critical Care Medicine
*145 algorithms for making accurate clinicaldecisions fast at the point of care
*1,160 easy-access tables for immediate access to vital information and formulas
*Cardinal manifestations of disease/signs and symptoms in 55 chapters (you'll find yourself turning to this section over and over again). Here you will find all the major manifestations, such as fever, pain, aches and rash, presented in depth, with a referral that takes you to the disease section for the complete chapter.
Stay a step ahead of everyday practice with the most authoritative, comprehensive, and useful guide to the entire spectrum of internal medicine.
The 16th Edition of "HARRISON'S PRINCIPLES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE" THE NEW COLOR OF MEDICINE HUNDREDS OF DIAGRAMS AND CLINICAL PHOTOS INTEGRATED INTO THE TEXT - FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FULL COLOR
*This description refers to the first volume of a two-volume set.
The "Harrison's" name is synonymous with internal medicine. HPIM continues to be the most authoritative and #1 selling medical textbook throughout the world. From its unique section on signs and symptoms through to the most comprehensive coverage of most all conditions seen by physician's, "Harrison's" is the internal medicine reference of choice. "Harrison's" 16th Edition features new, expanded, revised and updated material on the key topics in medical practice today. From the latest research findings to up-to-the-minute advances in diagnostic and treatment methodologies, "Harrison's" puts the facts you need at your fingertips.
The 16th Edition improves on a winning formula with:
*State-of-the-art coverage of over 4,700 diseases and disorders--more than any other internal medicine text - in the areas of oncology and hematology; infectious diseases; cardiology; pulmonology; gastroenterology; clinical immunology; rheumatology; endocrinology; and neurology
*A brand new full color format--665 full color drawings, 175 clinical and laboratory images, and hundreds of boxes, tables, and algorithms that use color to guide you to the information you need ASAP in everyday patient care
*Thorough revision and updates of virtually all chapters
*The addition of key new chapters - including extensive new coverage of Critical Care Medicine
*145 algorithms for making accurate clinicaldecisions fast at the point of care
*1,160 easy-access tables for immediate access to vital information and formulas
*Cardinal manifestations of disease/signs and symptoms in 55 chapters (you'll find yourself turning to this section over and over again). Here you will find all the major manifestations, such as fever, pain, aches and rash, presented in depth, with a referral that takes you to the disease section for the complete chapter.
Stay a step ahead of everyday practice with the most authoritative, comprehensive, and useful guide to the entire spectrum of internal medicine.
1340 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1970
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December 29, 2014
Meet my new baby, his name is Harrison, Harry for short, and weighs an amazing 9.5lbs. He will be the death of me, let me just say 2700 pages, 8 weeks.
February 23, 2007
Unfinished book for all physicians
August 10, 2024
1 star kulang sa romance
January 3, 2015
The most comprehensive beautiful Medicine book ever!
Also in my Indian med school,it was like a status symbol!Lol
Like if you didn't read from Harrison,you were just a lazy lower class student who didn't care about her education!
Then there were Harrison fanatics too,who would insist on reading everything from Harrison,kinda annoying cheer girls/fangirls haha
But this book is a Bible of Medicine,also WWF World heavyweight champion in the world of books :-)
2 volumes of this book are now about 10 lbs in weight!The book makes a good exercise as you read it!!
It is very well organized in thousands of articles on all diseases you can ever imagine,also system reviews and latest developments in the field add so much to it!
We read this book during undergraduate studies and think we're big deals haha and when we see MD postgrad students reading the same damn book during our contact with them in internship,we feel like fools!That basically sums it up!
I had a list of topics as all of us do,topics to be read from Harrison and that made things easier for me in UG.In the end,I ended up reading over 80% of my course from the book!It was like a bad addiction and swept me away!
The 2650 pages long book has thousands of images,charts etc and they help you score big in univ exams for sure.This is one of those books that make you feel good about yourself and impress your non medical friends and relatives like no1 else (as they see you studying from such a big book,you look big deal to them!Pet yourself bigshot!Haha)
The best way to study it would be,reading it topic/disease wise,ALWAYS mark/highlight whatever you read from this book or else you will be amazed every time you read from it,you will find that topic NEW!!And make summery of all the topics you read from this book--> write it down on a post it sticky note and stick it on the page of that book!
Thank You Harrison!
5 Stars :-)
Also in my Indian med school,it was like a status symbol!Lol
Like if you didn't read from Harrison,you were just a lazy lower class student who didn't care about her education!
Then there were Harrison fanatics too,who would insist on reading everything from Harrison,kinda annoying cheer girls/fangirls haha
But this book is a Bible of Medicine,also WWF World heavyweight champion in the world of books :-)
2 volumes of this book are now about 10 lbs in weight!The book makes a good exercise as you read it!!
It is very well organized in thousands of articles on all diseases you can ever imagine,also system reviews and latest developments in the field add so much to it!
We read this book during undergraduate studies and think we're big deals haha and when we see MD postgrad students reading the same damn book during our contact with them in internship,we feel like fools!That basically sums it up!
I had a list of topics as all of us do,topics to be read from Harrison and that made things easier for me in UG.In the end,I ended up reading over 80% of my course from the book!It was like a bad addiction and swept me away!
The 2650 pages long book has thousands of images,charts etc and they help you score big in univ exams for sure.This is one of those books that make you feel good about yourself and impress your non medical friends and relatives like no1 else (as they see you studying from such a big book,you look big deal to them!Pet yourself bigshot!Haha)
The best way to study it would be,reading it topic/disease wise,ALWAYS mark/highlight whatever you read from this book or else you will be amazed every time you read from it,you will find that topic NEW!!And make summery of all the topics you read from this book--> write it down on a post it sticky note and stick it on the page of that book!
Thank You Harrison!
5 Stars :-)
January 24, 2019
It's so essential for any one who wants to become a doctor.
It has simple writing that anyone with even a little knowledge of English can completely understand it.
So good.
I haven't read all of internal medicine from it, yet. But I hope I can till this summer.
It has simple writing that anyone with even a little knowledge of English can completely understand it.
So good.
I haven't read all of internal medicine from it, yet. But I hope I can till this summer.
September 9, 2010
The Bible of Medical Students ^_^
February 1, 2007
کتابی که پزشکها همیشه میخوانند و یا نمیخوانند! رفرنس استاندارد و قرآن پزشکها!
مایه رنج دائمی آنها!
مایه رنج دائمی آنها!
July 20, 2007
This is a great clinical reference.
April 9, 2008
هاریسون جان!از دست تو...ا
August 5, 2008
light reading before bedtime.
April 21, 2010
MY FAVORITE MEDICINE BOOK OF ALL TIME. I'M FOREVER READING THIS BOOK, AND IF EVER I'M DONE I'LL READ IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN... :D
December 14, 2011
I call it The Bible of Medicine.
November 10, 2014
only he that knows the basic biomedical sciences to the dot should dare read this
September 10, 2011
Editor Fauci includes van der Meer and Bleijenberg's egregiously inaccurate chapter on ME ("CFS"). It is no better than that in earlier editions by Fauci colleague Straus.
The article paints ME as having proven psychological components and relatively unproven organic components. Nothing could be further from the truth.
For example, they claim that "a direct microbial causation is unproven and unlikely." And that CBT and GET are the only proven treatments while acyclovir and many others have been proven ineffective.
And so on. I give Harrison's one star because such misrepresentations by Drs. van der Meer and Bleijenberg have caused a tremendous amount of iatrogenic morbidity in ME patients.
I am very eager to give Harrison's five-stars, because in most other respects, it really deserves it. I have learned a lot from it. Please substitute an accurate chapter on ME and I would be delighted to give it five-stars and evangelize for Harrison's. The essential documents on ME (with more than enough information to fill a chapter in Harrison's) are:
- the 2003 Canadian ME/CFS Consensus Criteria
http://www.cfids-cab.org/MESA/ccpccd.pdf
- the 2010 validated research version of the above CCC
http://niceguidelines.files.wordpress...
- the 2011 International ME Criteria
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
Please contact me if you wish further information or if you wish to find an author who will draft an accurate chapter for you free of charge. Thank you.
The article paints ME as having proven psychological components and relatively unproven organic components. Nothing could be further from the truth.
For example, they claim that "a direct microbial causation is unproven and unlikely." And that CBT and GET are the only proven treatments while acyclovir and many others have been proven ineffective.
And so on. I give Harrison's one star because such misrepresentations by Drs. van der Meer and Bleijenberg have caused a tremendous amount of iatrogenic morbidity in ME patients.
I am very eager to give Harrison's five-stars, because in most other respects, it really deserves it. I have learned a lot from it. Please substitute an accurate chapter on ME and I would be delighted to give it five-stars and evangelize for Harrison's. The essential documents on ME (with more than enough information to fill a chapter in Harrison's) are:
- the 2003 Canadian ME/CFS Consensus Criteria
http://www.cfids-cab.org/MESA/ccpccd.pdf
- the 2010 validated research version of the above CCC
http://niceguidelines.files.wordpress...
- the 2011 International ME Criteria
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
Please contact me if you wish further information or if you wish to find an author who will draft an accurate chapter for you free of charge. Thank you.
March 29, 2014
decent basic textbook of medicine
December 27, 2010
this is by far the best book written on Internal Medicine! is a shame they discontinued to use it in Medical schools.
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January 27, 2013how to open this book ?? plz tell
April 1, 2014
It's wonderful
It's amazing
It's fascinating
It's a the USA brand!
God help us to read, understand and remember it of course !
It's amazing
It's fascinating
It's a the USA brand!
God help us to read, understand and remember it of course !
February 16, 2008
Another gold-standard, this monster weighs in at about 4.5 kg or so (9 or 10 pounds, if you want to be a normal person instead of a med student). I know for a fact I'll be looking stuff up in this guy long after I've graduated. Unlike most textbooks (but exactly like all the thickest medical ones), Harrison's is really a series of smaller articles, arranged in chapter form. A really, REALLY long series. Any medical problem you can think of is here, in more detail than your own health-care practitioner is likely to need, in order to take care of you.
November 2, 2008
Ini adalah salah satu dari buku kelas "berat" yang saya punya(literally) karena beratnya hampir 4 atau 4.5 kg, dan sulit sekali untuk dibawa-bawa.
Buku yang terkenal karena "mbah"nya buku penyakit dalam.
Selalu menjadi andalan dari dulu jamannya masih sekolah hingga sekarang untuk mencari referensi dan mungkin untuk dijadikan senjata kalau lagi berantem sama suami :P
Buku yang terkenal karena "mbah"nya buku penyakit dalam.
Selalu menjadi andalan dari dulu jamannya masih sekolah hingga sekarang untuk mencari referensi dan mungkin untuk dijadikan senjata kalau lagi berantem sama suami :P
August 25, 2007
A must-have for medical students. No I haven't read the whole thing (though I know one guy, a surgical resident no less, who claims to have read it through 3 times) but I still use it, even with my uptodate subscription =)
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March 30, 2007read it bsfore exams
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October 18, 2007still the best book for consulting the patient
March 5, 2008
My parent's bought this book for me when I was a child and it just made me fall in love with Internal Medicine. You can't go to bed without skimming through a section.
June 28, 2008
Buku penyakit dalem yg bagus. Gampang dibaca n detail. Tp sayang berhubung tinggal di indonesia jd krg pas gt m epidny. Salah satu modal saya bt koas interna
November 3, 2008
this is all i really read. back to novels soon?
March 2, 2009
Lumayan membantu kalo ingin tahu tentang suatu penyakit. Meski kadang blank juga,(kadang? sering barangkali?.. hehehe) habis bahasanya dokter banget..
June 9, 2009
got my five stars. still the best internal medicine book for me.
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June 12, 2009Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine/1 Volume Edition/Full Edition Bk1&2 by Kurt J. Isselbacher, M.D. (1994)
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November 30, 2009yes
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