Clinician's Guide to Lab Medicine with Mini-Pocket:

Well worth the money, easy to use, helps formulate a diff dx based off of labs. Has helped me through my hospital rotation.

I found this book to be extremely helpful during basic science, especially in case-based classes or lectures, my savior on the wards, and it has continued to serve me well during residency. This book is well written, providing enough background information as to facillitate use by medical students but also providing more advanced explainations for those at a higher level. The flow charts for the interpretation and evaluation of abnormal laboratory values are very helpful. I would highly recommend this book. There used to be a pocket companion with the flow charts available, but I haven't seen it listed in a while. It does not provide the in depth explainations found in the larger book, but is much more practicle for carrying in your pocket on call.

This book contains a lot of clinically relvant information which is easily accessible to the busy reader.This guide can be read as a whole or it can serve as a reference book. In every case the book can be recommended to medical students as well as to experienced doctors.

As a physician I have referenced many books on laboratory medicine. This is by far one of the best for providing a concise,understandable, and more importantly, practical means of understanding laboratory tests and their clinical relevance.

Dr. Desai's book is thorough and well organized; a fantastic reference to help you work through case studies and patient admissions. It is most useful for meticulous internal medicine patient write-ups. I highly recommend it to all med students, especially those going into the clinical years.