Edited by David Sprigings John B. Chambers 2018 A practical guide to the management of medical emergencies For the medical patient presenting with an undifferentiated emergency, the best outcome is achieved  when initial assessment is by an experienced generalist, and subsequent care, if needed, by the  appropriate specialist. This book is written for the generalist: it […]

Edited by Adrian Blundell and Adam Gordon 2015 Globally, the population is ageing. The majority of people living into later life are healthier for longer. This is a success story and should be celebrated. A consequence of population ageing, however, is that a greater proportion of patients presenting to doctors are experiencing multimorbidity, polypharmacy and cognitive decline, with increasing health […]

Edited by Frank Lally Christine Roffe 2014 While it is fashionable to lament the perceived future adverse impacts of increasing longevity on society, health care provision, and social services, such doom may be misplaced, as increased longevity is a consequence of better health, and life years gained may be productive and contented. While the recent increase in retirement age […]

John Bradley Mark Gurnell Diana Wood 2012 Lecture Notes History-taking and examination remain the essential tools of clinical medicine. However, the environment in which medicine is practised has changed since the first edition of Lecture Notes in Clinical Medicine in 1975.

Yashesh Patel Barry J. Goldlist 2007 The practice of internal medicine requires both breadth and depth of knowledge. To acquire mastery of the subject requires extensive reading and clinical experience. The knowledge base is also constantly expanding and changing as medicine enters the era of molecular biology and large randomized clinical trials.

Dan Mayer 2010 In 1992 during a period of innovative restructuring of the medical school curriculum at AlbanyMedical College, Dr. Henry Pohl, then Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, asked me to develop a course to teach students how to become lifelong learners and how the health-care system works. This charge became the focus of a new longitudinal required 4-year […]

Atul C. Mehta • Prasoon Jain Thomas R. Gildea Editors 2016 A Clinical Guide As 2016 dawns, Interventional Pulmonology has become an essential component of pulmonary medicine, as vital and as widely accepted as Interventional Cardiology. This subspecialty is extremely attractive to most pulmonologists, and the establishment of national and international organizations, myriad scholarly contributions to the literature, and […]

Heinz Florian Hammer (Hrsg.) 2005 Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen, in diesem Therapielexikon finden Sie, in einer Form wie sie in keinem Lehrbuch verfügbar ist, praxisrelevante Therapievorschläge in einer übersichtlichen Art dargestellt. Ich hoffe, dass Sie das Lexikon so nützlich finden, dass sie es zu einem täglichen Wegbegleiter in Ihrem ärztlichen Berufsalltag machen. Die Stichworte umfassen diätetische, medikamentöse, endoskopische und […]