The F. A. Davis Pearls Series provides concise information covering a wide range of specialties that range from obstetrics to geriatrics, surgery to psychiatry, orthopaedics to neurology, gynecology to emergency medicine. The goal of the series is to introduce students to 95% of the clinical problems they are likely to encounter in their rotations, and to suggest approaches for dealing with these situations. The books are succinctly written so they can be read in a few hours.