Essentials of Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine

About this book

The pocket version of Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine, edited by Nicola Zammitt and Euan Sandilands at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. It keeps the parent textbook's approach of explaining the pathophysiology first, then the clinical features and treatment, in a size that fits a white-coat pocket. Nineteen chapters open with ethics and communication and infectious diseases, then cover gastroenterology and nutrition and the liver, biliary tract and pancreas, followed by blood, cancer, rheumatology, electrolytes, kidney, heart, lung, critical care, pharmacology and toxicology, endocrine disease, diabetes, the special senses, neurology, dermatology and, new to this edition, elderly medicine and frailty. Emergency boxes give at-a-glance management, and each chapter ends with a therapeutics section organised by drug class. Normal values and a dictionary of terms close the book.