Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine
- 10th Edition - October 15, 2020
- Latest edition
- Editors: Adam Feather, David Randall, Mona Waterhouse
- Language: English
Now in its tenth edition, Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine is fully updated and revised under a new team of editors.Featuring new chapters covering: o Diagnosis: the art of b… Read more
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Now in its tenth edition, Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine is fully updated and revised under a new team of editors.
Featuring new chapters covering:
o Diagnosis: the art of being a doctor – helping readers to develop a confident clinical method in interactions with patients
o Elderly medicine, frailty and multimorbidity
o Public health
o Surgery
o Evidence-based medicine
o Sepsis and the treatment of bacterial infection
o Haematological Oncology
o Venous thromboembolic disease
o Hypertension
o 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.
Featuring new chapters covering:
o Diagnosis: the art of being a doctor – helping readers to develop a confident clinical method in interactions with patients
o Elderly medicine, frailty and multimorbidity
o Public health
o Surgery
o Evidence-based medicine
o Sepsis and the treatment of bacterial infection
o Haematological Oncology
o Venous thromboembolic disease
o Hypertension
o 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.
Edited by Adam Feather, MBBS, 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. International Advisory Board, led by Professor Janaka de Silva and Professor Senaka Rajapakse, providing guidance for global coverage from across the world. Members of the International Advisory Board have contributed to the ebook with additional content to amplify areas of clinical importance in their parts of the world.Enhanced e-book accompanies the print book, for ease of transportation and use on the move.
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
From reviews of the previous edition: User reviews: Amazon UK #1 best-seller
‘Five stars’, ‘Brilliant book’, ‘Brilliant for medical students’, ‘One of the best books I ever bought’, ‘Very good’, ‘Super book’, ‘Essential’
‘The ultimate medical textbook’
‘Absolutely perfect! This book is amazing. I love it.’
‘Concise, relevant and easy to use book. love it. Thank you, Kumar and Clark!’
‘I am a first-year medical student and this book has done wonders for me! Instead of having to trawl through the unreliability of the internet, I have clear, concise and well-presented information all in one book! I find that using this book helps me engage better with my clinical placements! In my opinion a must buy for all budding clinical based students!’
‘My favourite medical textbook. The world's number 1 book for medical students.’
‘Five stars’, ‘Brilliant book’, ‘Brilliant for medical students’, ‘One of the best books I ever bought’, ‘Very good’, ‘Super book’, ‘Essential’
‘The ultimate medical textbook’
‘Absolutely perfect! This book is amazing. I love it.’
‘Concise, relevant and easy to use book. love it. Thank you, Kumar and Clark!’
‘I am a first-year medical student and this book has done wonders for me! Instead of having to trawl through the unreliability of the internet, I have clear, concise and well-presented information all in one book! I find that using this book helps me engage better with my clinical placements! In my opinion a must buy for all budding clinical based students!’
‘My favourite medical textbook. The world's number 1 book for medical students.’
- Edition: 10
- Latest edition
- Published: October 15, 2020
- Language: English
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Adam Feather
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Physician and Clinical Director, St Mary's Hospital, The Isle of WightDR
David Randall
David Randall is Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, QMUL; Consultant Physician and Nephrologist, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, QMUL; Consultant Physician and Nephrologist, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom