Key Features
- The world's best-selling pocket medical handbook - the only choice for medical students and junior doctors
- Offers up-to-date and practical clinical advice that can be implemented at the bedside
- Clearly indexed, with colour-coded tabs and ribbons to help you navigate and find the information you need, fast
- Features over 600 colour illustrations and clinical photographs to aid diagnosis and understanding
About this book
The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, a peerless classic in the field, returns for a tenth edition. Thoroughly updated in line with current guidelines, this pocket-friendly book continues to be a truly indispensable companion for the practice of modern medicine.
Readership
Medical students (particularly in fourth and fifth years), junior doctors, general practitioners, specialist nurses, and other allied health professionals.
Description
Now in its tenth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine has been fully revised, with five new authors on the writing team bringing content fresh from the bedside.
Space has been breathed into the design, with more core material at your fingertips in quick-reference lists and flow diagrams, and key references have been honed to the most up-to-date and relevant. Each page has been updated to reflect the latest changes in practice and best management, and the chapters on gastroenterology, history and examination, infectious disease, neurology, and radiology have been extensively revised.
Unique among medical texts, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine is a complete and concise guide to the core areas of medicine that also encourages thinking about the world from the patient's perspective, offering a holistic, patient-centered approach.
Loved and trusted by millions for over three decades, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine continues to be a truly indispensable companion for the practice of modern medicine.
Contents List
Chapter 1 Thinking about medicine
Chapter 2 History and examination
Chapter 3 Cardiovascular medicine
Chapter 4 Chest medicine
Chapter 5 Endocrinology
Chapter 6 Gastroenterology
Chapter 7 Renal medicine
Chapter 8 Hematology
Chapter 9 Infectious diseases
Chapter 10 Neurology
Chapter 11 Oncology and palliative care
Chapter 12 Rheumatology
Chapter 13 Surgery
Chapter 14 Clinical chemistry
Chapter 15 Eponymous syndromes
Chapter 16 Radiology
Chapter 17 Reference intervals, etc.
Chapter 18 Practical procedures
Chapter 19 Emergencies
Chapter 20 References
Author details
Ian Wilkinson is Professor of Therapeutics at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant Physician at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Tim Raine is Clinical Fellow and Honorary Registrar in Gastroenterology and General Medicine at the Wellcome Trust and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Kate Wiles is SpR Obstetric Physician at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital Imperial NHS Trust, London, UK
