Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine International Edition Tenth Edition

Featuring new chapters covering:

• Diagnosis: the art of being a doctor - helping readers to develop a confident clinical method in interactions with patients
• Elderly medicine, frailty and multimorbidity
• Public health
• Surgery
• Evidence-based medicine
• Sepsis and the treatment of bacterial infection
• Haematological Oncology
• Venous thromboembolic disease
• Hypertension
• Men's health
• Enhanced clinical skills content has been added to most chapters - helping readers tailor history-taking and examination skills to specific specialty-based contexts.
• Bonus online content - including self-assessment, common clinical and international cases, cardiovascular and respiratory audio material, clinical examination videos and bite-sized topic pages covering major conditions.
• Heavily revised throughout with smaller chapters to ease navigation, added introductions and system overviews included for most chapters.

Key Features

• Edited by Adam Feather, FRCP, FAcadMEd; David Randall, MA, MRCP; and Mona Waterhouse, MA, MRCP
• Contributors comprise consultants at the top of their fields, paired with younger doctors closer to the exam experience, to ensure authority and relevance.
• Enhanced e-book accompanies the print book, for ease of transportation and use on the move.
• International Advisory Board, led by Professor Janaka de Silva and Professor Senaka Rajapakse, providing guidance for global coverage from across the world.
• Contributions to the e-book by members of the International Advisory Board to amplify areas of clinical importance in their parts of the world.

Table of Contents

• 1 Diagnosis: the art of being a doctor
• 2 Human genetics
• 3 Immunity
• 4 Evidence-based practice
• 5 Ethical practice
• 6 Malignant disease
• 7 Palliative care and symptom control
• 8 Sepsis and the treatment of bacterial infection
• 9 Water, electrolytes and acid-base balance
• 10 Critical care medicine
• 11 Surgery
• 12 Prescribing, therapeutics and toxicology
• 13 Global Health
• 14 Public health
• 15 Geriatric medicine, frailty and multimorbidity
• 16 Haematology
• 17 Haematological Oncology
• 18 Rheumatology
• 19 Bone disease
• 20 Infectious diseases and tropical medicine
• 21 Endocrinology
• 22 Dermatology
• 23 Diabetes mellitus
• 24 Lipid and inherited metabolic disorders
• 25 Liaison psychiatry
• 26 Neurology
• 27 Ear, nose and throat, and eye disease
• 28 Respiratory disease
• 29 Venous thromboembolic disease
• 30 Cardiology
• 31 Hypertension
• 32 Gastroenterology
• 33 Nutrition
• 34 Liver disease
• 35 Biliary tract and pancreatic disease
• 36 Kidney and urinary tract disease
• 37 Sexually transmitted infections and HIV
• 38 Obstetric medicine
• 39 Women's health
• 40 Men's health
• 41 Environmental medicine