Davidson's essentials of medicine / edited by J Alastair Innes

Includes index.

Sir Stanley Davidson Preface Acknowledgements Contributors to Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine, 23rd Edition List of abbreviations Picture credits 1. Clinical decision making 2. Clinical therapeutics and prescribing 3. Poisoning 4. Acute medicine and critical illness 5. Infectious disease 6. Clinical biochemistry and metabolic medicine 7. Nephrology and urology 8. Cardiology 9. Respiratory medicine 10. Endocrinology 11. Diabetes mellitus 12. Gastroenterology 13. Hepatology 14. Haematology and transfusion medicine 15. Rheumatology and bone disease 16. Neurology 17. Medical ophthalmology 18. Dermatology 19. Ageing and disease 20. Oncology 21. Laboratory reference ranges

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