Domino_5-Minute Clinical Consult, 33e

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“…to know that one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded.”

This highly organized content online provides you with the following: • Differential diagnosis support from our expanded collection of algorithms • Current evidence-based designations highlighted in each topic cover ing 500 1 commonly encountered diseases in print, with an additional 1,000 online adult and pediatric diseases and conditions topics: • FREE point-of-care CME and CE: 1/2-hour credit for every digital search • A to Z drug database from Facts & Comparisons • Laboratory test interpretation from Wallach’s Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests • More than 3,000 patient handouts in English and Spanish • ICD-10 codes; additionally, SNOMED codes are available online. Our Web site delivers quick answers to your questions. It is an ideal resource for patient care. Integrating The 5-Minute Clinical Consult content into your workflow is easy and fast, and our patient education handouts can assist in helping you meet meaningful use compliance. The site provides an easy-to-use interface, allowing smooth maneuver ability between topics, algorithms, images, videos, and patient education materials as well as more than 1,000 online-only topics. Evidence-based health care is the integration of the best medical infor mation with the values of the patient and your skill as a clinician. We have updated our evidence-based medicine (EBM) content so you can focus on how to best apply it in your practice. The algorithm section includes both diagnostic and treatment algo rithms. This easy-to-use graphic method helps you evaluate an abnormal finding and prioritize treatment. They are also excellent teaching tools, so share them with the learners in your office. This book and Web site are a source to solve problems and to help eval uate, diagnose, and treat patients’ concerns. Use your knowledge, expressed through your words and actions, to address their anxiety. The 33rd edition means I have had the great fortune to help grow and support this content for half of its life. I am honored to play this role and hope to keep doing so for some years to come. I thank you, the reader, and the team at Wolters Kluwer for your support. The 5-Minute Clinical Consult editorial team values your observations, so please share your thoughts, suggestions, and constructive criticism through our Web site’s contact form.

This is the last line of poem attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. I share it with my fourth-year med students every year. And added it to this book a few years back. Very few professions offer this opportunity to help someone “breathe easier,” both literally and metaphorically. We have challenging and amazing professions. To know more about someone than their spouse; sometimes even more than they know about themselves and the opportunity to help them live physically, mentally, and emotionally better is a huge task and our “superpower.” Yet, in the hectic minutes of our busy days, we may not be aware of or mindful of all that we have and all that we do. Anthropologist Jane Goodall reminds us: “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Making the decision to have this impact, to make one person’s world, and the entire world, a better place comes at great personal cost and sacri fice (I know). The fulfillment of helping someone breathe easier is your gift. And maybe your payment. Thank you. Welcome to the 2025 edition of The 5-Minute Clinical Consult . Your clinical practice is full of challenges and unanswered questions. Your use of this amazing tool will provide you with the answers needed to help your patients live to their fullest. The 5-Minute Clinical Consult is here to assist in fulfilling our role as health care providers. In each patient interaction, in addition to bringing your clinical expertise, remember how your patients view you—as their advocate, someone who prioritizes their well-being unlike anyone else. Our editorial team has collaborated with hundreds of authors so that you may deliver your patients the best care. Each topic provides you with quick answers you can trust, where and when you need them most, either in print or online.

F rank J. D oMino , MD

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