Year after year on daily patient rounds with physicians and pharmacists in the Internal Medicine setting, I found myself answering the same types of questions and encountering the same types of problems over and over again. Physicians ask me about the appropriate use of medications when they are sending a patient for a test. Pharmacists ask me about tests or procedures because they are not familiar with the multitude of interventions performed in the Internal Medicine setting. Prior to the publication of this text, each professional had to scour various texts, guidelines, studies, and call different specialists to answer their questions. The lack of one orderly and broad resource resulted in wasted time, effort, and money, in addition to contributing to medication errors, confusion, redundancies, delays of care, and generally taking time that would be better spent caring for patients in other ways. This publication is the first resource where information about medications and their interactions with tests and procedures is found in a convenient, pocket-sized reference. MORE

The book focuses on pediatric dermatology clinical findings, differential diagnosis, and management of skin issues in infants, children, and adolescents for pediatricians and general dermatologists. The number of images has grown dramatically over the last four editions and also includes multiple images of skin of color which is important since skin findings can vary dramatically depending on skin color. MORE

Debra L. Beck and Eugene Braunwald, MD  Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare and progressive disorder characterized by pulmonary vascular remodeling resulting in high pulmonary artery pressure, cellular proliferation, and poor long-term outcomes. Mutations that lead to dysfunctional bone morphogenetic protein pathway signaling has been linked to both the hereditary and idiopathic subtypes. Sotatercept is a novel, first-in-class fusion protein, binds activins and growth differentiation factors in an attemptMORE

Why did you feel that it was important to write Walters & Karram Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, 5th Edition? What does it add to the field?  Walters & Karram Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery has been the premier textbook in the field since its first edition was published in 1993. With the 5th edition, weMORE