The Little Black Book of Primary Care
Daniel K. Onion. 610 pages. New York: Norton; 1993. $29.95.
A comprehensive, compact outline guide to clinical presentations, appropriate studies, and treatment of the main diseases and syndromes organized by systems and presentation types (emergencies, preventive medicine). A typical entry covers cause, epidemiology, pathophysiology, symptoms, signs, course, complications, laboratory tests, imaging studies, and treatments. Generous supply of journal references (without annotations). Because it is organized by condition rather than presentation, the reader must have a grasp on reasonable possibilities in differential diagnosis.
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