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The ultimate clinical companion: know what the experts know -- and make it part of your practice!

In this trusted text, you'll find the most current insights into symptoms, signs, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment for over 1,000 diseases and disorders. Turn to any topic, and you'll find on-the-spot answers to your questions for both hospital and ambulatory medicine. This streamlined, authoritative reference gets you up to speed-fast-on the latest medical advances, prevention strategies, cost-effective treatments, and more. No wonder it's the most popular annually updated text in internal medicine!

CURRENT Medicine in the right dose: exactly what you need for optimum patient care - in exactly the right amount of information

• Comprehensive coverage of inpatient and outpatient care, highlighting only the diagnostic and treatment tools pertinent to your practice
• A-to-Z overview of internal medicine and primary care topics from gynecology and neurology to toxicology and urology
• Only text with an annual HIV infection update
• “Essentials of Diagnosis” for most diseases/disorders
• Hundreds of drug treatment tables, with indexed trade names and updated prices-plus helpful diagnostic and treatment algorithms
• Recent references with PMID numbers for fast access to abstracts or full-text articles

Evidence-based standards for 1,000+ diseases and disorders

New to this edition:

• New 8-page color insert
• Extensively revised chapters on Ear, Nose and Throat; Hypertension; Disorders of the Blood Vessels and Lymphatics; and Protozoal and Helmithic Diseases
• Updated chapter on preventive medicine emphasizes disease prevention and health promotion
• Revamped cancer chapter delivers the very latest treatment advances
• Common Symptoms chapter expanded to provide more information on treatment
• Reworked chapter on end-of-life now addresses palliative care and pain management

Average Customer Rating:

not bad	Customer Rating:
I thought this book was very interesting and informative to a pre-med student. I'm not in med schools yet, but love to read about medical related things.

Too much money	Customer Rating:
Enough said....... quote "However, this current (2008) edition of CMDT has several chapters (more than the 2007 edition) available only online, AND for the very first time, the online access is $79 extra. "

use to be a good book	Customer Rating:
Didn't like the idea of going back and forth online to book and book to online. Use to be a great book I will not recommend this book to anyone anymore, I am a foreigne medical graduate and use to tell all the graduates coming from abroad to read this book not anymore. I hope the authors are listening.

Good, but not great.

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Having owned many previous editions of this book, I have to say that I am somewhat disappointed by the amount of material that is available only online for a substantial fee (relatively, compared to previous free online content, or even the street price of the print edition). Some of the online information surely could have been incorporated into this edition. Most of the algorithms that appeared in previous editions have been left out, and let's face it folks, most of those haven't changed at all since the 2007, or even the 1997 editions. I am not inclined, however, to grab a bunch of older editions off my bookshelf to find them. A lot of very important basic pharmacology that appeared in older editions has been left out of the 2008 print edition. I don't keep old texts and references on the shelves anyway. I am a D.D.S., M.D. with an undergraduate background in pharmacology, so I picked up on much of the missing stuff right away, just leafing through. Even with the negatives associated with this edition, I will likely buy future editions because there just isn't another reference with this much in a single volume that is as concise and easy to find. I am used to grabbing this book for a quick summary of dx and tx that I don't treat a lot. I do head and neck surgery, and I just don't see patients with Cushing's or Tetralogy of Fallot for cripe's sake! Wading through Harrison's Int. Medicine or a two volume cardiology text is something I am not going to do while a patient is sitting in an exam room waiting for me to reappear. I'll use my CMDT though. One can nitpick on virtually anything that is "new" or "different". So let's be honest, most of us who really use this thing can easily afford the $79 for online access, and most of us who have used a number of previous editions will continue to use CMDT unless it evolves into something totally worthless, and that's just not going to happen.

New edition no good!

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I purchased the new edition to replace my 2005, which had been destroyed through constant use and my backpack. I was very disappointed to find that the background information in the beginning of most chapters was deleted so that each chapter starts immediately talking about disease. For instance, the nutrition chapter (which is called nutritional disorders in the new edition) cut out 9 pages of background information on nutritional requirements, dietary recommendations, etc. I thought new editions were supposed to improve upon and update previous editions, not cut out crucial information. I would recommend buying an older edition instead of wasting your money on this incomplete one!