Mayo Clinic Family Health Book
The ultimate home medical resource
You only get one body, and it has to last you a lifetime. It deserves the greatest care and attention you and your doctor can give it.
Mayo Clinic Family Health Book is your reliable, comprehensive guide to thousands of health concerns. With more than 1.5 million copies sold, it has become one of the most popular health books ever published. Discover how comforting it is to know you can get reliable health information anytime you need it from a truly authoritative source.
Inside this book you will find . . .
- Symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 1,000 diseases and disorders
- A special section on how to prepare for pandemic flu
- How to understand common symptoms in children and adults
- Lifestyle habits that help you enjoy overall good health
- Current recommendations on first aid and emergency care
- A full-color visual guide with scores of illustrations and photographs to enhance your understanding
- Helpful information on tests and treatments — diagnostic tests, medications, surgery, pain management, complementary & alternative medicine and more
Order your copy today and put 1,391 pages of Mayo Clinic's vast experience at your finger tips.
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Mayo Clinic Family Health Book
More about Mayo Clinic Family Health Book
The Mayo Clinic Family Health Book serves as a helpful tool to keep and reference throughout life, it also provides essential medical information that may be needed in emergency situations. With detailed descriptions for performing CPR and the Heimlich maneuver and treating severe bleeds and burns, this book is an invaluable resource to study to help you prepare for the worst-case scenario.
About the Medical Editor
Scott C. Litin, M.D., is a general internist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He is the editor-in-chief of the third, fourth, and fifth editions of the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and also served as the editor of the Mayo Clinic A to Z Health Guide. Dr. Litin has been honored with numerous awards from Mayo Clinic, including the Outstanding Faculty Member award, the Distinguished Educator award, and the Distinguished Clinician award, which is known as Mayo Clinic’s highest honor for clinicians. In 2001, he was recognized with a Mastership in the College from the American College of Physicians, which selects its recipients based on their outstanding contributions to the development of internal medicine.
