Medical Generalists Research Articles

Clinical Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Disease

This unorthodox textbook of gastroenterology emphasizes a rather varied clinical approach to gastrointestinal diseases, including decision-making skills and recognition of gastrointestinal symptoms. The book is divided into two sections: The first covers major presenting symptoms and signs in gastrointestinal and liver diseases. The second covers major diagnostic modalities, including organ-imaging, endoscopy, biopsy, and tests of gastrointestinal function. By placing more emphasis on selective topics such as the clinical interview, patient-physician interaction, and cost-effectiveness, there is less emphasis on pathophysiology and treatment of disease. Since the book is not all-encompassing and does not try to be a summary of the state of the art of gastroenterology, it has particular appeal to persons at less experienced levels in medicine whose patients have gastroenterological symptoms. It would be ideal for the medical student or generalist and those less experienced in internal medicine and gastroenterology, such as nurse practitioners. Some of the discussions on

Manual of Skin Diseases

Whoever sets out to write a short dermatology textbook for the non-specialist faces the problem of what to include, what to omit, and how much detail to provide. He must also add parts that serve as a primer for those practitioners whose basic dermatologic training was all too little or totally absent. Dr. Sauer has faced these problems and came up with what the reviewer considers the best short text on dermatology for medical students, generalists, and specialists in other fields. No two dermatologists can be expected to agree exactly on the scope of such a text. I feel that Dr. Sauer has included a few too many items, rare birds the non-dermatologist will probably never see; and even if he should chance to see one of them, he would not recognize it. But if Dr. Sauer has erred here, it is a minor error compared to most books of