Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine

Description

• 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
• Offers a unique approach, bringing art, philosophy, history and over 25 years' of experience to the practice of medicine

New to this Edition:

• Complete rewriting of the chapters on History and Examination; Radiology; Neurology; Surgery; Thinking About Medicine (now includes Essentials of Epidemiology)
• More white space, less dense overall appearance (more extensive use of quick-reference bullet point lists, numbered lists, and flow diagrams)
• References are now all in the book, and have been significantly reduced to ensure that only the best quality and most relevant resources are signposted to readers
• In the tradition of bringing fresh voices to each edition, the author team has two new senior and three new junior authors with their own unique visions for the book, as well as their own experience of publishing and teaching medical students

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-centred 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

1: Thinking about medicine
2: History and examination
3: Cardiovascular medicine
4: Chest medicine
5: Endocrinology
6: Gastroenterology
7: Renal medicine
8: Haematology
9: Infectious diseases
10: Neurology
11: Oncology and palliative care
12: Rheumatology
13: Surgery
14: Clinical chemistry
15: Eponymous syndromes
16: Radiology
17: Reference intervals, etc.
18: Practical procedures
19: Emergencies
20: References

Author Information

Ian Wilkinson, Professor of Therapeutics, University of Cambridge, and Honorary Consultant Physician, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK, Tim Raine, Clinical Fellow and Honorary Registrar, Gastroenterology and General Medicine, Wellcome Trust and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK, Kate Wiles, SpR Obstetric Physician, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital Imperial NHS Trust, London, UK, Anna Goodhart, CMT, Manchester, UK, Catriona Hall, GP Trainee, London, UK, and Harriet O'Neill, Dermatology Teaching Fellow, Derby, UK

Ian Wilkinson is Professor of Therapeutics at the University of Cambridge and an 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, Cambidge, UK.

Kate Wiles is SpR Obstetric Physician at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital Imperial NHS Trust, London, UK.

Reviews and Awards

"Review from previous edition The bees' knees of medicine. . . A brilliant all-round book." - The Student Room

"Incredibly helpful in almost all situations, information well laid out and easy to find, engaging to read ... useful asides to aid memorisation, essential algorithms/reference intervals helpfully situated on front and back inside covers; a generally excellent and clearly very well-thought-out book." - Tom Dalton, University of Birmingham, UK

"I very much appreciated the very human and caring aspect it brings to clinical medicine, it's lovely to have the dry, biomedical material broken up with humorous, motivational and touching stories." - Sam Siljee, University of Otago, New Zealand

"THE best book that a medical student could ever use. Everything is so easy to find, and is just enough depth for me!" - Alexander Wibberley, 3rd year medical student, University of Leeds

"Like many other students I use the book as a quick reference/recall and revision tool, and for that it is (for lack of a better word) perfect. Every medical student in their clinical years should own one of these, and I think most of them already do! If you dont you are missing out." - Paddy Green, almostadoctor.co.uk