J. Maguire – Wills Eye Institute 5 Minute Ophthalmology Consult

Автор: J. Maguire
Название книги: Wills Eye Institute 5 Minute Ophthalmology Consult
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Медицина
Страницы: 766
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

The Wills Eye Institute 5-Minute Ophthalmology Consult provides a readily accessible and focused compendium of ophthalmic abnormalities that will be useful for students, physicians and ancillary medical staff. Evidence-based references are included and algorithmic flow diagrams are provided for rapid problem solving. In keeping with the very successful 5-Minute Clinical Consult brand, over 330 topics will be covered

Five minutes worth of advice from a colleague who knows as
much about the topic as anyone in the world? What could be
better?
The Wills Eye Institute 5-Minute Consult in Ophthalmology provides
just that type of targeted, focused advice; a quick curbside
consult with an expert from Wills regarding a patient there in your
office.
Wills Eye has been in the business of providing exactly this sort
of help to physicians worldwide since we opened the doors of our
first hospital through a gift to the City of Philadelphia from James
Wills, a Quaker merchant and grocer, who died in 1825 leaving his
money to build a hospital to care for the “indigent blind.” As a result,
in 1839, the first ophthalmology residency was inaugurated at Wills,
the beginning of a long and storied history of training physicians in
our field.
Our Wills history and experience with patient care and education
translates into “right to the bottom line” eli n ical decision-making and
advice. Drs. Maguire, Murchison, and Jaeger have organized this
superb volume to provide just this type of very practical support: the
maximum help within a minimum of time.
This volume will be a well-thumbed, front-of-the-bookshelf addition
for the busy practitioner who is absorbed with following Osier's
great dictum for prioritizing the crush of clinical care, “The best
preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.” This
superb tome will help in that time-honored and noble task
We have a privileged position, as ophthalmologists, of specializing
in an anatomic structure so constructed that even Darwin considered
it an exemption from evolution.
Its visceral importance is measured by a position in romantic
poetry equal only to the human heart
As both the portal to our souls and our window onto the world,
it holds a unique spot not only in the practice of medicine but in our
psyches; there is no greater primal fear than loss of vision.
We tell our residents and fellows that if it happens in the body,
it can happen in the eye and its adnexae. That is a developmental
fact What other organ has features of neuroectoderm, mesoderm,
and epidermis?
This is vast territory, and to orient ourselves we must necessarily
start with large concepts and move to the small.
In an increasingly real-time world, with its explosion of medical
and scientific information related to patient care and research, it is
a constant struggle to keep abreast of new data and innovations in
one's own specialty yet alone compensate for the breakneck pace
of change in others. One can become easily adrift and lost in this
data equivalent of the metaphorical “forest for the trees.”
It is therefore helpful to have a starting point, a chassis to which
additional facts and information can be melded over time and as
needed. We feel that the Wills Eye Institute 5-Minute Ophthalmology
Consult format, with more than 300 topics and 45 algorithms, fills
this void admirably. The eye's optical construct is ideally suited for
photography and the multitude of accompanying photographs will
be an additional rapid and invaluable resource.
We hope that this inaugural edition will serve as a primer and
valuable resource that informs, validates, and even comforts the
ophthalmologist, internist, general practitioner, resident, intern, and
emergency room physician in the hustling pace of daily practice and
the isolation of the nights loneliest hours.