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The Hands-On Guide for House Officers covers both the personal aspects of being a doctor and the day-to-day reality of responding to acute emergencies, dealing with common calls and carrying out practical procedures. It tells you:
· what to expect in the first week
· how to prescribe and give drugs
· how to run your own night rounds, tone down your bleep and get more sleep
· how to organize paperwork and work through the mass of hospital forms
· how to arrange your finances, understand tax and maximize your pension
· how to practise evidence-based medicine
· how to discharge patients, talk to fraught relatives
· how to select a computer, start your own medical database and organize your next job
· how to insert central lines, perform chest drains and read ECGs
· how to manage GI bleeds, overdoses and oliguria
· how to prepare diabetic patients for surgery
The first edition of this best-selling book helped thousands of anxious doctors through their first year. Why not see for yourself how it can help you?!
About: This book is dedicated to the final year medical student who is about to start
About: The second edition of The Hands-On Guide for House Officers is a practical book for junior doctors and medical students making the transition from Medical School to life on the Wards.
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