Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2024

Table of Contents

Section 1: Diseases and Disorders (approx.. 1000 medical topics; this is the main portion of the text)

Section 2: Differential Diagnosis

Section 3: Clinical Algorithms

Section 4: Laboratory Tests and Interpretation of Results

Section 5: Clinical Practice Guidelines

APPENDIX I: Definitions of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Terms

APPENDIX II: Nutrition

APPENDIX III: Acute Poisoning

APPENDIX IV: Impairment and Disability Issues

APPENDIX V: Primary Care Procedures

APPENDIX VI: Patient Teaching Guides

Authors

Fred F. Ferri Clinical Professor, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Fred Ferri is a Clinical Professor of Community Health at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University and author of over 30 medical books. He has been the best-selling medical author in the United States over the past 25 years and is also well known and respected internationally. He has been a visiting Professor at other medical schools and many of his books have been translated in several languages. In addition to his numerous publications, he has had a distinguished academic career at Brown University where he has received several awards for his dedication to teaching including the Brown University Excellence in Teaching award and Dean's teaching Award, and with the American College of Physicians where he was inducted as a Fellow in the ACP and has been a recipient of the Irving Addison Beck Award from the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Ferri is a practicing physician at Ocean State Medical, a group primary care practice that he established in 1984 and still runs along with two other partners and his two sons.