Access Medicine is such a go to resource for background info for many cases and there you will find both Harrison's Internal Medicine & Williams' Hematology. The Principles & Practice of Hospital Medicine text will have some good bleeding info. The books below will also be good resources - especially the Hematology in Clinical Practice.
Hematology in Clinical Practice by 
Von Willebrand Disease by 
Behavioral Medicine by 
Primary care medicine : office evaluation and management of the adult patient by A resource that covers many of the questions you might have this week - including screening for domestic violence (Ch, 110), evaluation of bleeding problems, common anemias, vaginal bleeding, and more. Print only.
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PubMed
PubMed is a great resource for many of your searches. Often, simple keyword searches are good enough, but sometimes, a little finese might be needed. For example, do you think you could look up a topic such as looking for methods for calculating the amount of blood lost during menstruation? Well, you can.
Narrow and focus your results even more -- put some terms in the [title]. For example:
(quanti* OR calculat*) menstrual blood loss[Title]
Tip: Use the "Advanced" search page
PubMed does not have every article, so sometimes, a Google Scholar search will add to your article options. However, a few tricks can help you get past the overwhelming and sometimes useless articles that often come up. This tip is a bit older and Scholar has gotten better at understanding, but still give it a try. The thought process is very similar to how you would search PubMed.
It might look something like:
Genetics Resources
The following resources are available to everyone without a subscription and for the most part have been developed with government funding. These tools will be available to you even when you graduate and move on from UCSD.
Decision Support - Point of Care Tools
These kind of tools provide some great details for clinical look up topics and can also help with more background topics that are more factual questions. Check out these different tools - they all have some advantages. See what these have on abnormal uterine bleeding.
Looking up information about the results of lab tests are mostly background questions. The following resources are easy to use tools to find very reliable information about the normal values, reference ranges, and more.
Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods by 
Ferri's Clinical Advisor by 
Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests by 
