Guide to the Most Common Internal Medicine Workups and Diseases: An evidenced based guide for all healthcare providers regarding common hospital based workups and diseases seen in Internal Medicine

This book was written to help guide all medical professionals. It is not meant to be inclusive of everything you will encounter in internal medicine (if you wanted that, you could read Harrisons, uptodate, or Pocket Medicine), but rather to provide evidence based approaches to common workups and diseases in our field.

This book is meant more for hospital based medicine rather than outpatient. However, a lot of the diseases and workups in the text are common/overlap to the outpatient setting, and include what a primary care physician should be doing to prevent disease in a patient and what to do post hospitalization.

The text starts with common workups. These may include things you are paged for about a patient you are taking care of or when cross covering, rapid responses, or new patients that are being admitted from the ED. It is a quick approach to the patient with their complaint, and things you should look out for and not miss. Management in this section is brief, but allows you to stabilize/support the patient while you come up with their diagnosis and ongoing treatment plan.

The next section is common diseases seen in the field of internal medicine. These chosen diseases are based on both personal experience and research. It is obviously not inclusive to all patients you will see in the hospital as the scope of that is too broad for this book. It is meant to cover the bread and butter of internal medicine. Each section includes the approach to the history/physical, differential, labs/imaging, diagnostic/treatment algorithms, treatment, etiologies, risk factors, pathogenesis, complications, prevention, and general admission orders. Included in this section are landmark clinical trials that support the information in the text…