The Va People Told Me To Get A Medical Book From Harvard, Good Text With Symptomatology And/or Diagnotic Reasoning.

[Gregg]

The text I inquired about is a publication of the Harvard Medical School(press?); possibly a compilation of opinions from the Harvard Medical School staff or proof read and approved by the Harvard Medical faculty.I need to know the official title publication name, date published, publisher...where to purchase.

[Rockwell]

    Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide   Paperback: 1272 pages Publisher: Free Press(December 28, 2004) ISBN-10: 0684863731   ISBN-13: 978-0684863733     Amazon.comThese days, when you only get to see your physician for 10 minutes after waiting several weeks for an appointment, you?re often forced to get your information somewhere else. Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide will do what your doctor can?t: answer your questions for hours on end. This richly packed compendium offers more than a thousand pages of health information compiled from the expertise of 7,000 physicians and researchers. Whether you?re figuring out what your symptoms might mean, researching a disease, looking up a medication, learning about a body part or function, or formulating questions to ask your doctor, you can find the medical knowledge here--and in simple, layperson?s language.   You?ll undoubtedly make the most use of the diagnosis section, in flow-chart form. You identify a symptom, then answer a series of "yes" or "no" questions--where the pain is located, when it occurs, what makes it worse, and other related symptoms, for example. Each answer leads you to another question and/or to an action you should take, with page numbers where you can find more information about the condition you may have. Very clear and well organized! The Color Guide to Visual Diagnosis lets you match your symptom with close-up color photos of various skin infections, cancerous growths, fungal infections, insect infestations, and other conditions. The book also has chapters on lifestyle changes that will enhance health, such as nutrition, exercise, smoking cessation, and safe sex. Added bonuses are sections on eldercare, death and dying, drug interactions, and emergency care. This book is a treasure and a bargain! --Joan Price From Library JournalThe linking of a web site to the text of this exhaustive compendium of consumer health information assures readers that it will never go out of date. Though the publisher promises that the site will be free, it will only "make sense" when used in conjunction with the printed version. The topics covered are not substantially different from those found in any other quality consumer health encyclopedia(e.g., Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, LJ 12/90), but the format differs substantially, and the treatment of all topics is more in-depth. Divided into ten parts, the text begins with a discussion on how to navigate current healthcare systems; the major areas then covered include health maintenance, how diseases are diagnosed, symptom management illustrated by numerous decision trees, and diseases and disorders. There are also sections on the management of health problems specific to men and women, adolescents, children, and the aged, with a profusion of line drawings and exceptionally understandable explanations of the benefits and risks of a variety of treatments, both surgical and nonsurgical. "Home remedies" for a variety of ailments are included, as are current opinions from Harvard physicians. Appendixes consist of medical terminology, information resources(including web sites), and medical forms. This low-priced, content-heavy work is highly recommended for all public and consumer health libraries.-AMartha Stone, Massachusetts General Hosp. Lib., Boston     Kirkus Reviews A massive, basic, and complete guide to family health matters--staying well, diagnosing problems, finding help, dealing with the health care and insurance systems--it?s all here. Komaroff(Editor in Chief of the Harvard Medical Publications) draws here on the resources of the hospitals, clinics, and research centers affiliated with Harvard Medical School. In Part 1, readers are instructed on ""Navigating the Health Care System."" Included with the more standard information is a list of organizations that rate health plans, and an essay by Robert Coles on ""The Care of the Poor""(reminding us--sadly--that ""some people in America are at a substantial remove from doctors and from medical institutions""). There follows a series of illustrations showing ""How Your Body Works."" Part 2 covers staying healthy(including advice on diet, exercise, and contraception). Part 3 explains the diagnosis of disease, and Part 4 sets out a lengthy and helpful series of symptom flow charts, for use when problems arise(for menstrual cramps, ""Have you recently stopped taking birth control pills?"", or ""Do you have fever?"") Part 5 is a system-by-system guide to ""Diseases and Disorders,"" ranging from the merely annoying to the catastrophic. Part 6 is concerned with caregiving(including home care), and Part 7 considers issues arising at the end of life. There follow sections on medications(including drug interactions) and first aid. Appendices provide lengthy guides to medical terminology, resources for further information, and assorted medical forms and charts. Readers will be able to update this guide from a website keyed to page numbers. In all, an enormous amount of sound information, precisely organized for easy reference      Available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Harvard-Medical-School-Family-Health/dp/0684863731/   http://books.google.com/books?id=85bncOnA-soC   Harvard website for the book:(down when I checked) http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/   Also see Research news from Harvard Medical School faculty and affiliated institutions: http://hms.harvard.edu/public/consumer/         A list of some of the Harvard Medical School Guides:   The Aging Eye by Harvard Medical School The Sensitive Gut by Harvard Medical School Six Steps to Increased Fertility: An Integrated Medical and Mind/Body Program to Promote Conception by Harvard Medical School The Arthritis Action Program: An Integrated Plan of Traditional and Complementary Therapies by Dr. Michael E. Weinblatt and Harvard Medical School Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health(Harvard Medical School Guides) by JoAnn E. Manson and Shari S. Bassuk The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men?s Health: Lessons from the Harvard Men?s Health Studies by Harvey B. Simon The Harvard Medical School Guide to a Good Night?s Sleep by Steven Mardon Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure(Harvard Medical School Guides) by Aggie Casey and Herbert Benson Harvard Medical School Guide to Achieving Optimal Memory(Harvard Medical School Guides) by Aaron P. Nelson and Susan Gilbert The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating During Pregnancy(Harvard Medical School Guides) by W. Allan Walker Unlocking the Mysteries of Eating Disorders(Harvard Medical School Guides) by David B. Herzog, Debra L. Franko, and Patti Cable The Breast Cancer Survivor?s Fitness Plan(Harvard Medical School Guides) by Carolyn M. Kaelin, Francesca Coltrera, Josie Gardiner, and Joy Prouty   Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating by M.D. Walter C. Willett and P.J. Skerrett   http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfiltered=1&field-keywords=&field-author=&field-title=Harvard+Medical+School+Guides&field-isbn=&field-publisher=&node=&url=&field-binding=&field-subject=&field-language=&field-dateop=&field-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=relevancerank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=27&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.y=8

[ApEvan]

Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide is a general book, there are many other specific guides     Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide   Paperback: 1272 pages Publisher: Free Press(December 28, 2004) ISBN-10: 0684863731   ISBN-13: 978-0684863733     Amazon.comThese days, when you only get to see your physician for 10 minutes after waiting several weeks for an appointment, you?re often forced to get your information somewhere else. Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide will do what your doctor can?t: answer your questions for hours on end. This richly packed compendium offers more than a thousand pages of health information compiled from the expertise of 7,000 physicians and researchers. Whether you?re figuring out what your symptoms might mean, researching a disease, looking up a medication, learning about a body part or function, or formulating questions to ask your doctor, you can find the medical knowledge here--and in simple, layperson?s language.   You?ll undoubtedly make the most use of the diagnosis section, in flow-chart form. You identify a symptom, then answer a series of "yes" or "no" questions--where the pain is located, when it occurs, what makes it worse, and other related symptoms, for example. Each answer leads you to another question and/or to an action you should take, with page numbers where you can find more information about the condition you may have. Very clear and well organized! The Color Guide to Visual Diagnosis lets you match your symptom with close-up color photos of various skin infections, cancerous growths, fungal infections, insect infestations, and other conditions. The book also has chapters on lifestyle changes that will enhance health, such as nutrition, exercise, smoking cessation, and safe sex. Added bonuses are sections on eldercare, death and dying, drug interactions, and emergency care. This book is a treasure and a bargain! --Joan Price From Library JournalThe linking of a web site to the text of this exhaustive compendium of consumer health information assures readers that it will never go out of date. Though the publisher promises that the site will be free, it will only "make sense" when used in conjunction with the printed version. The topics covered are not substantially different from those found in any other quality consumer health encyclopedia(e.g., Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, LJ 12/90), but the format differs substantially, and the treatment of all topics is more in-depth. Divided into ten parts, the text begins with a discussion on how to navigate current healthcare systems; the major areas then covered include health maintenance, how diseases are diagnosed, symptom management illustrated by numerous decision trees, and diseases and disorders. There are also sections on the management of health problems specific to men and women, adolescents, children, and the aged, with a profusion of line drawings and exceptionally understandable explanations of the benefits and risks of a variety of treatments, both surgical and nonsurgical. "Home remedies" for a variety of ailments are included, as are current opinions from Harvard physicians. Appendixes consist of medical terminology, information resources(including web sites), and medical forms. This low-priced, content-heavy work is highly recommended for all public and consumer health libraries.-AMartha Stone, Massachusetts General Hosp. Lib., Boston     Kirkus Reviews A massive, basic, and complete guide to family health matters--staying well, diagnosing problems, finding help, dealing with the health care and insurance systems--it?s all here. Komaroff(Editor in Chief of the Harvard Medical Publications) draws here on the resources of the hospitals, clinics, and research centers affiliated with Harvard Medical School. In Part 1, readers are instructed on ""Navigating the Health Care System."" Included with the more standard information is a list of organizations that rate health plans, and an essay by Robert Coles on ""The Care of the Poor""(reminding us--sadly--that ""some people in America are at a substantial remove from doctors and from medical institutions""). There follows a series of illustrations showing ""How Your Body Works."" Part 2 covers staying healthy(including advice on diet, exercise, and contraception). Part 3 explains the diagnosis of disease, and Part 4 sets out a lengthy and helpful series of symptom flow charts, for use when problems arise(for menstrual cramps, ""Have you recently stopped taking birth control pills?"", or ""Do you have fever?"") Part 5 is a system-by-system guide to ""Diseases and Disorders,"" ranging from the merely annoying to the catastrophic. Part 6 is concerned with caregiving(including home care), and Part 7 considers issues arising at the end of life. There follow sections on medications(including drug interactions) and first aid. Appendices provide lengthy guides to medical terminology, resources for further information, and assorted medical forms and charts. Readers will be able to update this guide from a website keyed to page numbers. In all, an enormous amount of sound information, precisely organized for easy reference      Available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Harvard-Medical-School-Family-Health/dp/0684863731/   http://books.google.com/books?id=85bncOnA-soC   Harvard website for the book:(down when I checked) http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/   Also see Research news from Harvard Medical School faculty and affiliated institutions: http://hms.harvard.edu/public/consumer/         A list of some of the Harvard Medical School Guides:   The Aging Eye by Harvard Medical School The Sensitive Gut by Harvard Medical School Six Steps to Increased Fertility: An Integrated Medical and Mind/Body Program to Promote Conception by Harvard Medical School The Arthritis Action Program: An Integrated Plan of Traditional and Complementary Therapies by Dr. Michael E. Weinblatt and Harvard Medical School Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health(Harvard Medical School Guides) by JoAnn E. Manson and Shari S. Bassuk The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men?s Health: Lessons from the Harvard Men?s Health Studies by Harvey B. Simon The Harvard Medical School Guide to a Good Night?s Sleep by Steven Mardon Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure(Harvard Medical School Guides) by Aggie Casey and Herbert Benson Harvard Medical School Guide to Achieving Optimal Memory(Harvard Medical School Guides) by Aaron P. Nelson and Susan Gilbert The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating During Pregnancy(Harvard Medical School Guides) by W. Allan Walker Unlocking the Mysteries of Eating Disorders(Harvard Medical School Guides) by David B. Herzog, Debra L. Franko, and Patti Cable The Breast Cancer Survivor?s Fitness Plan(Harvard Medical School Guides) by Carolyn M. Kaelin, Francesca Coltrera, Josie Gardiner, and Joy Prouty   Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating by M.D. Walter C. Willett and P.J. Skerrett   http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfiltered=1&field-keywords=&field-author=&field-title=Harvard+Medical+School+Guides&field-isbn=&field-publisher=&node=&url=&field-binding=&field-subject=&field-language=&field-dateop=&field-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=relevancerank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=27&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.y=8   supergrover's Recommendations Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide Amazon List Price: $25.00 Used from: $12.45 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5(based on 16 reviews) The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health: Lessons from the Harvard Men's Health Studies Amazon List Price: $15.00 Used from: $2.92 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5(based on 8 reviews) Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating Amazon List Price: $15.00 Used from: $5.28 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5(based on 123 reviews) supergrover 67 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. 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