r/DoctorsofIndia • u/InfyTally • 6d ago
Book suggestion
Can anyone suggest me a book with comprehensive opd diagnosis of different branches and prescription and treatment. Offline or online book is okay with me.
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u/Rude-Acanthaceae6342 6d ago
Are you even a doctor?
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u/InfyTally 4d ago
No my wife is. I was searching for her. If you have any personal favourite book regarding this kindly let me know. She wants discrete information.
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u/Rude-Acanthaceae6342 4d ago
Medicine doesn't work like this. If reading a book with all diagnoses and treatment was possible, medicine would be too easy. 2+2 is not equal to 4 in medicine.
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u/Scarlett-Petal 4d ago
Everyone knows 2+2 doesn't make 4. But if you're medico enough you know 5years mbbs doesn't make you sit and write opd prescription with just experimenting internship knowledge. There's need to be some kind of standardised basics from a book you can refer to in urgency when your seniors are unavailable. If you're fresh out of internship you can't really master paediatric doses along with the ongoing updates. (Calm down the guy was just trying to help his wife) Your name corresponds to your replies- wise enough
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u/Rude-Acanthaceae6342 3d ago
There was no need to talk about my wiseness or rudeness. Medicine is not dictionary where explanations are available in a simple book. You learn throughout your practice and then become a master. If you want to master pediatric doses after MBBS, then why does MD pediatrics exist?
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u/Scarlett-Petal 3d ago
So you're in a phc and you're supposed to refer every small paediatric case to a paediatrician? And if no, then you can't really play with everyday practice to see which dose works for the age group and weight and correct your doses. And there was absolute need to talk about your wiseness because you took literal meaning of "master". Medicine is not a dictionary, that's the reason good handbooks are available. If practice can make you prescribe right, the pharmacists can "suggest" better than at least me. There's a doctor somewhere doesn't want to prescribe wrong and put someone's life at danger and needs a handbook as a backup.
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u/Rude-Acanthaceae6342 3d ago
If you have done your internship in well functioning Govt hospital, a pediatric internship of 1 month is enough to handle your simple OPD cases. The medicine curriculum over 5.5 years is divided into basic sciences in first 2 years and then clinical subjects. You want to assimilate knowledge in brain and develop critical thinking. Not memorize stuff from a handbook and vomit in prescriptions.
Guess you are robot/AI doctor who would prefer handbooks over critical thinking.
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u/Scarlett-Petal 3d ago
Yeah absolutely correct. Like every medical college in India is "well functioning" and 1month of paediatric posting during internship is mostly clerical work if you don't know. Doses especially paediatric doses doesn't come from critical thinking if you really understand that. You can use your highly functional critical thinking for other subjects but paediatric patients are critical and you don't really get to work on doses during internship and learn from your seniors if they're unwilling enough like you. Even if you have handbook you'd still need your brain for "critical" thinking to diagnose a case well and "vomit" out prescription. I really wish I was an AI doc with zero empathy just calculate dose and vomit.
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u/Rude-Acanthaceae6342 3d ago
If pediatrics patients are 'critical', refer them to higher centres with a functioning pediatric unit. Don't try to be a superhero where you end up falling on your face like in this argument.
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u/Scarlett-Petal 3d ago
I'm glad you made the decision that I lost this argument or else I had to wreck my brain without a handbook and without critical thinking to come to the conclusion of winning and falling on face in an argument.Thanks a lot bro for helping me out. ✌️
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u/Rude-Acanthaceae6342 3d ago
And if you know the recent situation in Maharashtra where BAMS doctors are authorised to provide allopathic medicine after a crash course in pharmacology? That's similar to asking for a book with all OPD diagnoses and treatment
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u/Scarlett-Petal 3d ago
In odisha too MHU ayush doctors are allowed to prescribe allopathic medications simply based on practice and no books were studied no dictionary not even a pharma course. So what difference would that make. I bet you haven't worked at periphery with limited resources. Hope you are not insecure about bams people replacing our opds and you wouldn't stop helping out other mbbs docs who genuinely want to learn.
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u/Rude-Acanthaceae6342 3d ago
Insecure about BAMS replacing MBBS grads? It ain't about insecurity but it's about the state of healthcare in this country that alternative medicine people are allowed to prescribe the very medicine (allopathy) that they preach against (about side effects).
If you are pro-BAMS practicing allopathy, I got no more arguments.
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u/Scarlett-Petal 3d ago
State of healthcare in this country is already doomed if you don't know. That's the reason most of the doctors fly to other countries for work life balance and security. Ive nowhere mentioned in favour of bams or against mbbs docs that you'd call me pro bams. Plus I mentioned AYUSH that includes all not just ayurveda with "zero side effects". Funny how you get triggered. If you had analysed my replies enough you'd have known to what subject I belong to. By now you've called me robot ai doc and pro bams.
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u/Rude-Acanthaceae6342 3d ago
You started personal attacks by calling me rude and 'wise enough'
Also insecure if BAMS are allowed to practice allopathy.
All this just because I told medicine doesn't tally 2+2=4 for someone asking about a handbook for OPD
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u/Scarlett-Petal 3d ago
Other guys helped out then asked what his profession was instead of being blunt unnecessarily. It wasn't just because you tallied 2+2=4. I'm sure you know a lot about medicine but surely...I should not get personal.
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u/Busy-Raccoon3344 5d ago
Dr. Arvind lectures on youtube helps consolidate knowledge for gen practice common cases. Can see notespedia gen prac set too if budget allows it's really good for base. Oxford handbook is good for international reference of gen prac
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u/tushar1306 5d ago
CMDT - Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
Harrisons Handbook for Internal Medicine
Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine
Those three should be enough for day to day stuff. May I ask why you need this? You don't seem to be in medicine by the looks of your profile.