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Excuse the shameless self-promotion but figured this is a good place to share that I just wrote and published a book on choosing and interpreting diagnostic labs called The Only Diagnostic Lab Book You'll Ever Need. I worked together with my father, Malcolm Thaler, who also wrote The Only EKG Book You’ll Ever Need and The Only Neurology Book You’ll Ever Need (my sister Ali took the lead on the latter). The goal with this lab book was to create an approachable, concise, and engaging tool to help medical trainees and practicing clinicians hone their approach to ordering and interpreting diagnostic labs.
As a med student I felt completely overwhelmed trying to make sense of all my patients’ labs (which of all the numbers in front of me actually matter? Why did we decide to order these labs at this time for this particular patient?). Time, experience, and lots of reading helped, but I really could have used an accessible resource to help distill down the important concepts. Now that I’m a rheumatology fellow, I’m confronted by difficult questions about my patients’ labs all the time. We designed this book to work both as a helpful introduction for those early in their training (thinking of medical school me and probably most people on these forums; I could have definitely used something like this on my IM rotation as an MS3) and as a guide/reference for those further along, including folks already in practice, who may be looking for more nuance and detail. The emphasis is always on how to use the lab in clinical context (as interesting as the Krebs Cycle is, we mostly stay away from that stuff). We wrote it as practical tool that you can actually use. Please buy/read/use it, and tell people if you like it!
I'm having trouble getting the link to work on here but if interested you can find more detail about the book on Amazon (The Only Diagnostic Lab Book You'll Ever Need).
As a med student I felt completely overwhelmed trying to make sense of all my patients’ labs (which of all the numbers in front of me actually matter? Why did we decide to order these labs at this time for this particular patient?). Time, experience, and lots of reading helped, but I really could have used an accessible resource to help distill down the important concepts. Now that I’m a rheumatology fellow, I’m confronted by difficult questions about my patients’ labs all the time. We designed this book to work both as a helpful introduction for those early in their training (thinking of medical school me and probably most people on these forums; I could have definitely used something like this on my IM rotation as an MS3) and as a guide/reference for those further along, including folks already in practice, who may be looking for more nuance and detail. The emphasis is always on how to use the lab in clinical context (as interesting as the Krebs Cycle is, we mostly stay away from that stuff). We wrote it as practical tool that you can actually use. Please buy/read/use it, and tell people if you like it!
I'm having trouble getting the link to work on here but if interested you can find more detail about the book on Amazon (The Only Diagnostic Lab Book You'll Ever Need).
