Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide: The Easy Way to Identify Medical Problems
Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide: The Easy Way to Identify Medical Problems book cover

Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide: The Easy Way to Identify Medical Problems

Paperback – January 9, 2018

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Price
$19.00
Format
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
DK
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1465459145
Dimensions
8 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches
Weight
1.75 pounds

Description

DK was founded in London in 1974 and is now the world's leading illustrated reference publisher and part of Penguin Random House, formed on July 1, 2013. DK publishes highly visual, photographic nonfiction for adults and children. DK produces content for consumers in over 87 countries and in 62 languages, with offices in Delhi, London, Melbourne, Munich, New York, and Toronto. DK's aim is to inform, enrich, and entertain readers of all ages, and everything DK publishes, whether print or digital, embodies the unique DK design approach. DK brings unrivalled clarity to a wide range of topics with a unique combination of words and pictures, put together to spectacular effect. We have a reputation for innovation in design for both print and digital products. xa0 Our adult range spans travel, including the award-winning DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, history, science, nature, sport, gardening, cookery, and parenting. DK’s extensive children’s list showcases a fantastic store of information for children, toddlers, and babies. DK covers everything from animals and the human body, to homework help and craft activities, together with an impressive list of licensing titles, including the bestselling LEGO® books. DK acts as the parent company for Alpha Books, publisher of the Idiot's Guides series and Prima Games, video gaming publishers, as well as the award-winning travel publisher, Rough Guides.

Features & Highlights

  • An invaluable health and symptoms reference guide for anyone looking to identify a medical problem quickly.
  • This simple, visual symptom checker helps you check out any health problem and directs you to what it might be and what you should do. Whether it's a symptom you have been ignoring for a while or something like a sudden pain after a fall,
  • Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide
  • tells you what it could be and what action to take.  A series of head-to-toe visual diagnostic guides help you to identify suspected conditions or injuries and once you've narrowed it down, a cross-reference takes you to easy-to-follow descriptions of the condition at the back of the book. Potentially life-threatening situations and ailments that need urgent medical advice are clearly flagged.
  • Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide
  • is the perfect resource for identifying what might be wrong and what you should do next.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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As someone going into medical coding and billing (working on ...

As someone going into medical coding and billing (working on my certificate right now) and also on my degree for medical assisting, This, I needed this, especially for coding. Knowing signs and symptoms is incredibly important in order to assign the right code for the service provided.
4 people found this helpful
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Very visual, and helps a lot in preparation to USMLE 2CS (esp. for IMG)

Cons: not for medical professionals but helps to establish phrasing/wording in communication with English-speaking patients.
Pros: very helpful visual guide to review and systematization/consolidation clinical symptoms to syndromes/nosology during prep to exam and med. practice in US medicine settings; very high quality of pictures, colors, paper. Lots of spaces to add your own notes; very affordable price;;
Personally, I used this book as a sort of anatomical map/atlas to write my own notes related to symptoms by localization. Very recommend to buy and use it for medical students/residents/IMG 2CS-test-takers!
3 people found this helpful
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good effort

The last 1/3 of the book - a directory of medical conditions - is well done. Unfortunately, the first 2/3 of the book is marred by the ineffective use of color in the illustrations. Instead of using color to highlight anatomical features (as is done in the directory), the illustrator just uses a blob of color to highlight certain regions, which actually obscures the anatomy rather than clarifies it. I gave the book 4 stars for effort, nevertheless. Given the vast number of ailments to which humans are subject, it's not clear what criteria were used to decide what was included in the book.
3 people found this helpful
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Not worth the paper it’s printed on!

Within the first few pages this book gives a scale that describes the degree to which someone should seek treatment. I immediately decided this book was useless when a few pages later one of the possible diagnoses was stroke and under “seek medical attention as soon as possible” rather than “urgent”. It says stroke is a serious medical attention requiring immediate care, possibly at the ER, so it baffles the mind as to why it’s not labeled as “urgent” right from the start.I’m no doctor, nurse, EMT, etc., but definitely know that if someone feels they might be having a stroke that urgent attention is needed and time is of the essence. A TIA was noted to resolve itself within 24 hours, yet notes to seek medical attention. Their coding system is not accurate at all and could endanger others.

I wish I bought this from Amazon and not a third party seller so I could return it. Returning it would cost about as much as I paid for it, thankfully which was very little as I toss it in the recycling bin. No way will I allow this to be reused by anyone, known or unknown to me, with such poor guidance.
2 people found this helpful
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Amazon Coroner/Medical Book

Got this as a Christmas gift and “fun” book for our youngest becoming a Medical Examiner. She absolutely adores it! Interesting book!!
2 people found this helpful
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I like this book

Great to know what’s going with your body. Serves as a very useful book for my major. Would definitely recommend
1 people found this helpful
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Great book for high school students to study

This book is fantastic for anyone who has a curiosity regarding the various ailments of the human anatomy.
1 people found this helpful
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GREAT BOOK

I'm an advanced EMT, and veteran. I've used this book for medical issue diagnosis, and to help enter new VA compensation claims!
1 people found this helpful
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Great value

Great reference book just what I was looking for
1 people found this helpful
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Simple and easy to follow along

I love the simplicity and ease of the book showing the target areas of the body with the associated symptoms in that particular area and what could be the likely causes. Very simple and easy to use. I would definitely recommend it.
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