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Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine is an American textbook of internal medicine. [1] First published in 1950, it is in its 21st edition (published in 2022 by McGraw-Hill Professional ISBN 978-1264268504 ) and comes in two volumes.
Tinsley Randolph Harrison (March 18, 1900 – August 4, 1978) was an American physician and editor of the first five editions of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Harrison specialized in cardiology and the pathophysiology of heart disease.
Cecil Textbook of Medicine [5] Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine [6] The Oxford Textbook of Medicine [7] The Principles and Practice of Medicine; The Textbook of Pain; Harrison's Principal of Internal Medicine is widely considered the most read textbook of medicine ever. It was able to eclipse Cecil's by changing the organization.
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It was first published in 1927 as the Textbook of Medicine, by Russell LaFayette Cecil. [2] [3] In the United States, it is a prominent and widely consulted medical textbook. [3] Cecil Medicine is often compared with Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, which it predates by three decades. [3]
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At the time, addicts were lucky to find a hospital bed to detox in. A hundred years ago, the federal government began the drug war with the Harrison Act, which effectively criminalized heroin and other narcotics. Doctors were soon barred from addiction maintenance, until then a common practice, and hounded as dope peddlers.
According to Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, "the training, practice, credentialing, licensure, and reimbursement of osteopathic physicians is virtually indistinguishable from those of physicians, with 4 years of osteopathic medical school followed by specialty and subspecialty training and [board] certification." [1]