The world's best-selling pocket medical handbook - the only choice for medical students and junior doctors Offers up-to-date and practical clinical advice that can be implemented at the bedside Clearly indexed, with colour-coded tabs and ribbons to help you navigate and find the information you need, fast Features over 600 colour illustrations and clinical photographs to aid diagnosis and understanding Offers a unique approach, bringing art, philosophy, history and over 25 years' of experience to the practice of medicineNew to this Edition: Complete rewriting of the chapters on History and Examination; Radiology; Neurology; Surgery; Thinking About Medicine (now includes Essentials of Epidemiology) More white space, less dense overall appearance (more extensive use of quick-reference bullet point lists, numbered lists, and flow diagrams) References are now all in the book, and have been significantly reduced to ensure that only the best quality and most relevant resources are signposted to readers In the tradition of bringing fresh voices to each edition, the author team has two new senior and three new junior authors with their own unique visions for the book, as well as their own experience of publishing and teaching medical students