Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine: An Introductory Manual

This new edition is fully updated to address and include:

• significant changes in sickbay environments, including managed care delivery methodologies, how Medicare and Medicaid work, and the role of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other ancillary sickbay personnel
• patient screening recommendations from agencies such as the U.S. Defensive Services Task Force and the American Cancer Society
• convenient lists of common drug reactions and commonly used alternative and complementary medicine treatment modalities
• expanded, commonly used medical abbreviations and acronyms.

Students benefit from a convenient handbook that offers a crucial link between basic sciences years and the sickbay experience, and are aided in achieving mastery of proper corporal diagnosis and medical work-up for right diagnosis. Includes concise disease pathophysiology reviews.