Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialities (Oxford Medical Publications)

by Murray Longmore (Author), Murray Longmore (Author), Judith Collier (Author), Timothy J. Hodgetts (Primary Contributor), T.J. Hodgetts (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $4.33

  The first three editions of this invaluable handbook have been tremendously successful thanks to their accessibility and comprehensive cover of the medical specialties. For the fourth edition thousands of revisions and updates have been made and a new chapter on pre-hospital care added. This best-selling book will give medical students doing their rotations absolute confidence on the ward, in the lecture theatre, and during revision. It is now printed in three colours which, with the new page design, makes everything even easier to find when you really need it! In addition, as in previous editions the alternate blank pages mean that notes, case histories, and updates - available by fax and published in the BMJ - are instantly to view. This handbook, used in conjunction with the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine , provides comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible coverage of the information that is the foundation of successful practice. This book is intended for medical students, especially those on rotation; junior hospital doctors; also primary care physicians.

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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.