Pocket Medicine

Written by residents, fellows, and attendings, the mandate for Pocket
Medicine was to provide, in as concise a manner as possible, the
key information a clinician needs for the initial approach to and
management of the most common inpatient medical problems.
The tremendous response to the previous editions suggests wewere able to help fill an important need for clinicians. With this eighth
edition come several major improvements. We have updated every
topic thoroughly. In particular, we have included data on the newest
pharmacotherapies for heart failure and the latest treatment
algorithms for valvular heart disease. We have added a section for
pharmacomechanical therapy for VTE and updated the treatment for
pulmonary hypertension. We now include a section on other solid
tumors including gastric & esophageal cancer, ovarian cancer, and
melanoma, and we expanded the sections on immunotherapy and
cellular therapy. Naturally we now have a section on COVID-19 and
have also added a section on sexually transmitted infections. We
continue to expand the discussion of SGLT2i and GLP1-RA for
diabetes. As always, we have incorporated key references to the
most recent high-tier reviews and important studies published right
up to the time Pocket Medicine went to press. We welcome any
suggestions for further improvement.
Of course, medicine is far too vast a field to ever summarize in a
textbook of any size. Long monographs have been devoted to many
of the topics discussed herein. Pocket Medicine is meant only as a
starting point to guide one during the initial phases of diagnosis and
management until one has time to consult more definitive resources.
Although the recommendations herein are as evidence-based as
possible, medicine is both a science and an art. As always, sound
clinical judgment must be applied to every scenario.
I hope that you find Pocket Medicine useful throughout the
arduous but incredibly rewarding journey of practicing medicine.