Clinical Internal Medicine [antikvár]

Today's medical students are confronted by a bewildering mass of written information derived from lengthy textbooks and the latest articles in scientific journals. But the beginning student physician needs to build a sound foundation with the essentials of internal medicine on which he or she can add detail and substance in future years. For this reason the editors of Clinical Internal Medicine have developed a format that is interesting, pragmatic, and different from that of the traditional textbooks. The major medical emergencies; the presenting features of illness elicited by history taking, physical examination, and initial laboratory studies; and the common diseases and problems in internal medicine are all discussed in order. The concise and clearly written text is complemented by many first-rate figures and newly devised tables that are difficult to find elsewhere. The authors of each chapter are specialists, but they have avoided excessive detail and have selected from their fields the material that is essential for the student physician and the general intemist. The faculty members who have planned and written this book have made a praiseworthy effort to meet the need for an introductory textbook, and the result, Clinical Internal Medicine, will be welcome and useful, especially for those beginning to leam clinical medicine. Gordon Meiklejohn