By Rick D. Kellerman, MD and David Rakel, MD
ISBN: 9780323596480
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2018
Reviewed by: Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
Description
This annual publication, currently in its 71st year, is a relied-upon, easy-to-use desk reference for clinicians of every discipline.
Purpose
The purpose has been to provide a “practical medical textbook that busy clinicians could use to access medicine’s latest therapeutic advances.” The book continues to do this in the manner and legacy of the original editor, Howard Franklin Conn, MD.
Audience
This is a book for every clinician, as it brings together in one place the most recent and accepted treatments of illness, as Dr Conn envisioned. All of the contributors are well-respected clinicians in their respective fields.
Features
The book is divided into 21 sections representing the traditional organ systems in addition to preventive health, physical and chemical injuries, children’s health, women’s health, pregnancy and antepartum care, men’s health, sexually transmitted diseases, infectious diseases, and an extremely helpful section symptomatic care pending diagnosis. Each chapter begins with a boxed summary that highlights the most pertinent issues of background, what labs to check, and treatment. The boxes are followed by a more in-depth discussions of the diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment. There are numerous tables and figures with algorithms and references. The only limitation is that the photographs are black and white, which does not highlight all of the characteristics.
Assessment
This is a tremendously well-organized, concise yet complete book that has extraordinary usefulness as a desk reference for all clinicians, regardless of their specialty.
Doody’s Review Service Weighted Numerical Score: 95-4 Stars!
Rick D. Kellerman, MD is Professor and Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine – Wichita. He is a co-author of Conn’s Current Therapy 2019.
Dr. Kellerman received his MD from University of Kansas School of Medicine and performed a Clinical Teaching fellowship at McLennan County Medical Education and Research Foundation in Waco, Texas.
Dr. Kellerman is nationally known in family medicine, having served on the board of the American Academy of Family Physicians and as president of the AAFP. He has also served as president of the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians. He has received numerous awards and honors; the Smoky Hill Family Medicine Residency Program received the Outstanding Rural Health Program in America Award from the National Rural Health Association Award while he was the program director.
Dr. Kellerman has served with dozens of community service programs and frequently provides volunteer medical services. He has many professional publications to his credit and dozens of presentations to both professional and lay audiences. He has written more than two dozen successful grant applications for health care providers and agencies.
Hao-Hua Wu, MD is an orthopaedic surgery resident at the University of California, San Francisco and the founder of Gunner Goggles™. He is a co-author of Gunner Goggles Family Medicine and other titles in the Gunner Goggles series.
Dr. Wu received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has been a Morgan and Madison McClellan International Research Fellow, Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IGOT); an MCAT teacher and tutor for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions; and a Research Assistant at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Dr. Wu has a strong interest in global health and medical education. His honors and awards include EOA/EOEF Resident/Fellow Travel Grant Award; Petrus Camper Award; McKinsey Insight Program; Bridging the Gaps; Formosa Foundation Ambassador; and International Emory Global Health Case Competition, Honorable Mention, Team Captain. His organizational affiliations include the Honors Shelf Review Series (Gunner Goggles – founder); American Association of Medical Colleges; American Medical Association Chapter at UPenn; Global Health Interest Group; and Trojan Health Connection.
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Stephen W. Moore, MD is a family medicine practitioner at Sonora Family Practice in Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of Griffith’s Instructions for Patients, 8th Edition.
Dr. Moore, a Dartmouth College graduate, received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and completed residencies in internal medicine at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital and pediatrics at the University of Arizona. He is board certified in family practice.
In addition to authoring the highly regarded Griffith’s Instructions for Patients, Dr. Moore has edited or been technical consultant to several other books and is a lecturer for the American Heart Association’s Advanced Cardiac Life Support course.
As the founder of Sonora Family Practice, Dr. Moore cares for newborns through centenarians, and has a special interest in sports medicine and cardiology. He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine as well as the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Dr. Moore has been in private family practice since 1975 and has also served as Clinical Director for the U.S. Public Health Indian Health Service and as an emergency department physician. He is a Diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners and a clinical lecturer at the University of Arizona School of Medicine. Previously Dr. Moore has been Medical Director at Tucson Awareness House and Chairman of Family Medicine at St. Joseph’s Hospital. He is a multiple recipient of the Physicians Recognition Award from the American Medical Association.
Robert H. Seller, MD, FACP, FAAFP is an emeritus professor of family medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He is the co-author, with Andrew B. Symons, of Differential Diagnosis of Common Complaints, 6th Edition.
Board certified in internal medicine, Dr. Seller served as chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at SUNY Buffalo Medical School from 1974 to 1982. He held the position of professor of medicine and family medicine from 1974 to 1999. Dr. Seller earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in Philadelphia in 1956.
Dr. Seller is in private practice as a family practitioner and internist in Williamsville, New York.
Paul M. Paulman, MD, is a professor and predoctoral candidate in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha. At UNMC, he is on staff at Physicians Family Medicine, Durham Outpatient Center. Dr. Paulman is the co-author of Signs and Symptoms in Family Medicine.
Board certified in family medicine, and in practice for over 30 years, Dr. Paulman received his medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1977. He completed a residency at Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa in 1980.
Dr. Paulman’s areas of professional interest include disease prevention, smoking cessation, depression, and interprofessional collaboration. He comments, “I enjoy helping patients find ways to become healthier.”
Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH is Vice President of Primary Care and Academic Affairs at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. He is Clinical Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine (UCSD), and at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC). He is a co-author of Swanson’s Family Medicine Review, 7th Edition.
Dr. Scherger graduated from the UCLA School of Medicine and completed his residency in family medicine, as well as a Master’s in Public Health, at the University of Washington. He has served in the National Health Service Corps as a migrant health physician, has been in private practice, and has taught medical students and residents at UC Davis. Dr. Scherger was a Fellow in the Kellogg National Fellowship Program, focusing on health care reform and quality of life, as well as Vice President for Family Practice and Primary Care Education at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego, and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine and the Associate Dean for Primary Care at the University of California Irvine, College of Medicine. Dr. Scherger was founding dean of the Florida State University College of Medicine and Consulting Medical Director for Quality and Informatics at Lumetra Healthcare Solutions.
Dr. Scherger has received numerous awards, including being recognized as a “Top Doc” in San Diego. He was voted Outstanding Clinical Instructor at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, and was named Family Physician of the Year by the American Academy of Family Physicians and the California Academy of Family Physicians.
Dr. Scherger was president of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and was nominated by the UC Irvine medical students for the AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award. He served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America, as well as on the board of directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Board of Family Medicine.
Dr. Scherger serves on the editorial board of Medical Economics and is an assistant editor of Family Medicine. He was the Men’s Health expert and a consultant for Revolution Health, and he has covered California for eDocAmerica since 2003. He has authored more than 400 medical publications and has given over 900 invited presentations.
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Arash Naeim, MD, PhD is director of the Geriatric Oncology Program and an associate professor-in-residence of medicine and hematology/oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine of the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the co-author of Management of Cancer in the Older Patient.
Dr. Naeim is board certified in medical oncology. He received his medical degree from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine in 1995. He went on to perform an internship and residency in internal medicine, and fellowships in hematology and geriatric medicine, also at UCLA.
Possessing special expertise in adjuvant chemotherapy, breast cancer, and hormone-dependent cancer, Dr. Naeim has authored numerous articles in the field. His clinical interests include geriatric breast, lung, and prostate cancer.
Dr. Naeim is trained in health services research with an emphasis on cost-effectiveness and decision-making in older cancer patients. In recent years, he has also been involved in developing informatics in hematology/oncology. He is interested in how electronic databases and medical records can be used in outcomes research, patient/physician education, and healthcare interventions. Dr. Naeim holds the position of Director of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) Informatics Shared Resource, and is also a member of the JCCC Patients and Survivors Program Area.
Amber S. Tully, MD is an assistant professor in the Medicine Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the co-author, with James Studdiford, MD, FACP, of USMLE Images for the Boards.
Dr. Tully has been a collaborator with Dr. Studdiford on two additional publication projects. While still a medical student, she co-developed a medical imaging database, Jefferson Clinical Images, which currently holds over 1,200 images, board review questions, clinical cases, and lectures. Drs. Tully and Studdiford are also the co-authors of Top Doc, a medical quiz iPhone app released in 2010.
Dr. Tully received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in 2005, and performed a residency in family medicine at the same institution. Her undergraduate work was at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She joined the Cleveland Clinic in 2011.
Board certified in family medicine, Dr. Tully has specialty interests in dermatology, women’s health, plastic surgery, physical diagnosis, and clinical images.
Dr. Tully has been the recipient of a number of leadership awards including the Family Medicine Education Consortium Emerging Leader Award, the AAFP/Bristol Myers Squibb Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education, the William Potter Memorial Prize in Clinical Medicine, the Arthur Krieger Memorial Prize in Family Medicine, the Drs. Ronald R. and Henry Pohl Prize for Professionalism, and the J. Savacool Prize in Medical Ethics. In addition, Dr. Tully is an author of several papers.
