Essentials of Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine: (Pocket Essentials)

Mini Kumar & Clark goes into its fifth edition! New to this best-selling, portable, quick reference to clinical medicine: Fully updated in line with the latest edition of Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine New chapter on malignant disease Practical procedures and therapeutics taken into individual chapters as appropriate. From reviews of the previous edition: 'This really is an excellent medical textbook . Easily covers undergraduate medicine.' 'Pocket Essentials is a great little book to review the night before you start on a rotation. It is small enough that you can easily read over the chapter and then appear on the ward with a good idea of what is going on.' 'In short this book is concise, succinct and gets straight to the point.' 'This book summarises everything you need to know: causes, diagnoses and treatments.' 'I am finding this book very helpful and more importantly very concise. It has most things you need to know about common clinical pathologies.' '. I turned to Pocket Essentials of Clinical Medicine as my clinical medicine reference guide - and what a guide! An excellent book, which gives you the clinical features, investigations and management for a whole variety of different illnesses. The book is clearly laid out, and even has normal blood chemistry values at the end. Do yourself a favour and buy this book!' 'This mini paperback is a must for anyone studying medicine. It gives all the information one would need and all without the pain of carrying around a large book.' 'I liked this book . it was useful having a smaller reference book . to carry around on wards etc. - it's more digestible and easier to follow than big K&C, and gives a little more background than the Oxford Handbook - and I know people who use it to revise for finals.'

Table of Contents:
Medical emergencies; Abbreviations; Significant websites; 1 Ethics and communication; 2 Infectious diseases; 3 Gastroenterology and nutrition; 4 Liver, biliary tract and pancreatic disease; 5 Haematological disease; 6 Malignant disease; 7 Rheumatology; 8 Water, electrolytes and acid-base balance; 9 Renal disease;10 Cardiovascular disease; 11 Respiratory disease; 12 Intensive care medicine; 13 Drug therapy, poisoning and alcohol misuse; 14 Endocrine disease; 15 Diabetes mellitus and other disorders of metabolism; 16 The special senses; 17 Neurology; 18 Dermatology; Dictionary of terms; Normal values

Review :
From student reviews of the 4th edition on Amazon: 'Pocket Essentials is a great little book to review the night before you start on a rotation. It is small enough that you can easily read over the chapter and then appear on the ward with a good idea of what is going on. It doesn't replace the Oxford Handbook but rather compliments it. The Oxford Handbook is great for key facts, Pocket Essentials on the other hand gives a fundamental overview of what you need to know.''I liked this book ... it's more digestible and easier to follow than big K & C, and gives a little more background than the Oxford Handbook - and I know people who use it to revise for finals.'From instructor reviews of the 4th edition: 'One should have a larger book but for quick reference as a pocket/bag book it's excellent for students and trainees and I have recently been encouraging my doctors to get one, especially those doing GPVTS who would just not have the time or interest to wade through K&C. As such it's a slightly more gentle way to revise basic medicine. It is different to OHCM and fulfills a different need.'