Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialities (Oxford Medical Publications)

by Murray Longmore (Author), Murray Longmore (Author), Judith Collier (Author)

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  1987

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  BL The companion volume to the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine BL Covers all the major clinical specialties BL Pocket guide to diagnosis, investigations, and treatment BL Provides enough background information to give a useful understanding of the subject BL Includes social and psychological dimensions of care BL Alternate pages left blank for personal notes BL Cross referenced to the Oxford Textbook of Medicine 2/e This book, combined with the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, covers the entire field of medicine. It has been written primarily for those taking up their first responsibilities in the major specialties of clinical medicine, whether as clinical students, junior doctors, or trainee general practitioners. The junior doctor is expected, rather unreasonably, to be able to finish one specialty (e.g. psychiatry) one day and be ready to undertake the full responsibilities of a new specialty (e.g. paediatrics) without so much as an hour to adjust to the new work. So he/she has to learn on the job. Such a doctor needs a friend in the pocket to prompt him/her to ask all the right questions, to advise on which preliminary diagnosis to make, which investigations to request, and how to institute the correct treatment before experienced (and sometimes critical) help arrives in the form of a ward round. The book is not, however, just a compendium of causes and recipes for treatments. It also provides sufficient information to give the student who has never met a given topic before, a useful understanding of the subject. Examples of topics covered: How to examine the contents of the mind How to examine the contents of the pregnant uterus How to resuscitate an asphyxiated neonate How to manage discharge from psychiatric clinics How to manage discharge from the ear or from the vagina How to prevent all the preventable diseases, and how to tackle the barriers to prevention How to look after your own mental health How to analyse doctors' consultations How to approach someone with a red eye What are sex therapy, play therapy, and brief therapy? how to cope with spinal injury First-degree students of clinical medicine; junior doctors; trainee general practitioners.

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  More than ever, the sixth edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties fulfils its role as the essential one-stop port of call for all the clinical specialties: Obstetrics, Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Primary Care, ENT, Eyes, Skin diseases, Anaesthesia, Orthopaedics and Trauma. It's ten books in one, and from this point of view alone it must the best-value medical book ever. And it's an exciting read because, by virtue of its diversity and because within it all the specialties are ineterrelated, it offers unrivalled opportunities for multidisciplinary learning. It's only one inch thick, yet in this inch lie all the ideas and facts essential to those who will or are already caring for patients whose needs may or may not fit within the traditional bounds of individual specialties. The ideas may be difficult, and the facts may be numerous, but here they are made comprehensible and memorable, laid out in the Oxford Handbooks' characteristic style, the consistent page-a-topic format with space for the reader's own updatings and refinements. So this new edition scores 10 out of 10 because: it's ten books for the price of one-so there is no medical exam that it cannot help you to pass (for a start, it even teaches you to master your own anxiety); it's intimately linked to the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine , so that together they provide an internally consistent view of the whole of clinical medicine and cover everything you need to know about medicine and surgery; full of practical advice, with step-by-step guides and dosages given in full; it's thoroughly up-to-date and more evidence-based than ever before; with many hundreds of links to reliable medical internet sites such as Medline and Clinical Evidence, it is easy for readers to probe beneath the topics covered; it's holistic and multidisciplinary; it's authoritative (all sections double-checked by senior specialists)-yet always aware of medicine's short-comings. This new edition scores 10 out of 10 because: it's human, it's humorous, yet all the while it is deeply serious about communicating not just recipes for care but a philosophy of medicine which has come to be respected around the world; more illustrations, with new colour pictures in Ophthalmology and Dermatology; and it's small; it's neat - and it just can't wait to get into your pocket.