The 5-Minute Patient Advisor (5-Minute Consult Series) Sometimes just 5-minutes can make the difference! No reference will be more essential than the time saving 5-Minute Patient Advisor. This text has been enormously successful because it meets clinicians’ need for vital need-to-know information in a no-nonsense format! The book contains concise, complete patient information sheets about medical/surgical conditions, based on the expert advice in Griffith's 5-Minute Clinical Consult, 2001 and written in easily understandable terms.