The go-to textbook for medical students Designed to be as easy to understand as it is comprehensive, Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine is the definitive guide for medical students and doctors in training.Revised and updated to reflect the structure of modern medical care, an all-new Acute Medicine chapter focuses on the initial, problem-based assessment of the unwell patient. Chapters on Medical Specialties explore the diagnosis and management of patients with chronic disease across the spectrum of systems-based disorders. Sections on The Practice of Medicine, Medicine and the world and Medicine Throughout Life explore medicine in its wider context, addressing the health needs of the population as well as specific patient groups.This book has been the must-have text for medical students and doctors in training for over 35 years. The 11th edition has been fully updated and restructured to suit the needs of a contemporary audience.- A unified chapter format makes the book easy to read and navigate- Comprehensive content includes clinical skills, basic medical sciences and individual conditions- Succinct notes on clinical emergencies, differential diagnosis and practical procedures- Fully revised and updated throughout- Additional online videos and self-assessment questions to test knowledge retention and supplement learning
PART 1 THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE
1. The art of being a doctor
2. Clinical communication
3. Medical ethics
4. Evidence-based practice
5. Human genetics
6. Immunity
7. Therapeutics and prescribing
8. Radiology
PART 2 MEDICINE AND THE WORLD
9. Public health
10. Global and planetary health
PART 3 ACUTE AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE
11. Acute medicine
12. Sepsis and the treatment of bacterial infection
13. Critical care medicine
14. Anaesthesia and perioperative medicine
15. Toxicology
16. Environmental medicine
PART 4 MEDICAL SPECIALTIES
17. Cardiology
18. Hypertension
19. Lipid and metabolic disorders
20. Respiratory medicine
21. Ear, nose, and throat
22. Gastroenterology
23. Hepatology
24. Biliary tract and pancreatic disease
25. Nutrition
26. Kidney and urinary tract disease
27. Water balance, fluids, and electrolytes
28. Neurology
29. Stroke medicine
30. General hospital psychiatry
31. Ophthalmology
32. Rheumatology
33. Bone disease
34. Endocrinology
35. Diabetes mellitus
36. Metabolic disease
37. Obesity
38. Haematology
39. Haematological oncology
40. Venous thromboembolic disease
41. Malignant disease
42. Infectious disease
43. Sexually transmitted infections
44. Human immunodeficiency virus
45. Dermatology
PART 5 MEDICINE THROUGHOUT LIFE
46. Young adult medicine
47. Sex and gender in medicine
48. Obstetric medicine
49. Medicine of the older adult
50. Palliative care and symptom control
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