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The new Ferri's Netter Patient Advisor 2010 - 2011, by Fred F. Ferri, MD, FACP, enables you to increase patients' understanding and cooperation with ease! Designed with the end user in mind, it features over 550 printable, succinct and highly visual education topics that provide patients with the information they need, in a quick and memorable manner. It combines more than 2,000 Netter and Netter-style illustrations with explanations from renowned author Dr. Fred Ferri to provide an easy understanding of each health condition and what patients can do to facilitate their own care. A companion website featuring annual updates lets you customize and print out patient instructions for all 500 of the topics covered in the book, plus 50 additional topics. It's the perfect instructional resource for helping your patients become informed and active partners in their healthcare management. Involve your patients in the treatment and management of their health. More than 2,000 Netter and Netter-style illustrations combined with clear, concise explanations from Dr. Fred F. Ferri help patients understand their illness and what they can do to facilitate treatment. Ensure the best patient encounters and outcomes with downloadable, customizable English and Spanish patient education guides on www.netterreference.com covering 775 topics. Educate your patients about timely topics such as Bed Bugs, Childhood Nutrition, Pneumoconiosis, and more. 175 new topics are new to this edition. Access the complete text, downloadable patient guides, and regular updates at www.netterreference.com. Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the web site be discontinued.

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This is a collection of patient handouts that creatively balance health education with visual depictions of disease. The number of topics covered is comprehensive and vast -- from common outpatient medical conditions to common inpatient medical conditions to less common medical diseases.This is a great collection of visually engaging patient handouts. It would be useful in any primary care setting. -- Heather Huang, MD(Rush University Medical Center), Doody's Review

This is a collection of patient handouts that creatively balance health education with visual depictions of disease. The number of topics covered is comprehensive and vast -- from common outpatient medical conditions to common inpatient medical conditions to less common medical diseases.This is a great collection of visually engaging patient handouts. It would be useful in any primary care setting. -- Heather Huang, MD(Rush University Medical Center), Doody's Review

This is a collection of patient handouts that creatively balance health education with visual depictions of disease. The number of topics covered is comprehensive and vast -- from common outpatient medical conditions to common inpatient medical conditions to less common medical diseases.This is a great collection of visually engaging patient handouts. It would be useful in any primary care setting. -- <i>Heather Huang, MD(Rush University Medical Center), Doody's Review</i>

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Fred Ferri is a Clinical Professor of Community Health at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University and author of over 30 medical books. He has been the best-selling medical author in the United States over the past 25 years and is also well known and respected internationally. He has been a visiting Professor at other medical schools and many of his books have been translated in several languages. In addition to his numerous publications, he has had a distinguished academic career at Brown University where he has received several awards for his dedication to teaching including the Brown University Excellence in Teaching award and Dean's teaching Award, and with the American College of Physicians where he was inducted as a Fellow in the ACP and has been a recipient of the Irving Addison Beck Award from the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Ferri is a practicing physician at Ocean State Medical, a group primary care practice that he established in 1984 and still runs along with two other partners and his two sons.

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