Tarascon Primary Care Pocketbook

I found that this is one of the better primary care pocketbooks. If you are debating between this one and the little binder one I would definitely get this one instead. My only complaint is that the way it is organized. For example when I am searching for something specific like Diabetes and go to the index it will lead to me to a page where Diabetes is references but not fully explained (like the diagnosis, pathophys, meds, eval, etc). So I would recommend getting familiarized with it prior because it has a lot of great things, antibiotic coverage info and other pearls. I used it also on my internal med, ED, and other rotations as well.

Great little handbook to refer back to but the print is, like, 2 or 3 font.I wish they made this in a larger format, like they make their pharma book.One star removed for the eyestrain :-)

Finally a fourth edition after one year delay.It is actually 463 pages, not the 288 as described. Third edition had 270 pages.Very comprehensive. Almost every section has been expanded.23 total sections.Very useful four pages of pediatric dosing tables of common drugs to mL per age / weight groups.I kept my dog eared 3rd edition to my side, despite having multiple PDA apps on my phone. It is so much easier to thumb through the pages and glance down for quick facts. For more detailed info, I then go to my 5mcc and UpToDate phone apps.I kept copies on desk and gave away to students who rotate through.

This has to be one of the best tools you can have in any Family Practice Setting. Students, Residents, New Graduates you will love this handy dandy book. It has everything that you need and is up to date. I have checked it against Epocrates as well as UpToDate and found that the information is point or spot on! I utilized this for my clinical rotations for Family Nurse Practitioner schooling and it was brought to my attention by the direction of an Emergency Room.

good book with useful information. Kind of chunky but not terrible. Probably will be useful for the first year or two but will probably use UpToDate more.

I really like this reference. You look up hypertension and it takes you through a full plan of care on how to treat the patient which is helpful for new practitioners and experienced as well to give them an outline they can refer to. There is a nurse practitioner that has been one over 20 years and she has one of these. Great resource and I am glad I bought it.

Great little review tool, easy to carry

The book comes in handy while in NP clinicals for school. Not bothered by the small size of print but many errors in the index, leading to the wrong page, as well as leading to incorrect tables for reference. Many conditions that you look for only lead to the pediatric section and there are no sections for the adult versions of diseases.

The book came in a terrible condition, a lot of annotations, many pages are punched from sided! I wish I would got it as a kindle book