Pocket Prescriber Psychiatry

Doctors are generally people who like books. Throughout our long training, we spend many hours with them (or perhaps now their electronic equivalents) attempting to turn the lead of the prose contained therein into the gold of clinical knowledge which should be in every clinician's brain as a bedrock of practice. However, our need to refresh and update this knowledge base never really ends for the active clinician, in training or not. To fill this need, many guidelines are available, but recently some of these have been bedevilled with controversy and have drifted somewhat from being the handy aid which the busy trainee and clinician requires.