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Office Practice of Medicine
3rd ed, by William T. Branch, Jr, 1174 pp, with illus, $95, ISBN 0-7216-4338-8, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders Co, 1994.
Jay Siwek, MD, Reviewer
Georgetown University School of Medicine Washington, DC
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(3):277.
Abstract
I remember liking the first edition of this textbook when it came out in 1982. At the time, it was one of a few books that covered common problems in ambulatory care. And unlike the large textbooks of internal medicine, this book was built around a problem-oriented rather than the traditional disease-oriented approach. This third edition does a nice job of building on the previous two editions.
The book originally grew out of teaching materials developed for the general internal medicine program at Harvard Medical School; the current edition remains largely the work of Harvard faculty. Essentially, this is a textbook of adult ambulatory medicine. It aims for a problem-oriented approach, although it does not always use one. For example, there is a chapter on angina pectoris, but not a good discussion of the workup of chest pain. But, where possible, the contributors try to focus on the undifferentiated problem. For an
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