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Product Description The third edition of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis is available to purchase in a pack with the fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery, offering complimentary content from both handbooks at a discounted price.Now revised for its third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis provides a concise and practical summary of the reasoning processes behind clear and confident diagnosis. The handbook is set out systematically with symptoms and signs through each specialty, and includes a detaileddescription of the basis of logical evidence-based differential diagnosis.The third edition has been updated with clearer diagrams and brand new images. Including rarer diagnoses alongside the common conditions, and vital information about longer-term management alongside the initial treatments, this handbook will ensure your excellence and confidence no matter what signsand symptoms your patient presents with. Providing practical help when dealing with problems outside your area of expertise or with unforeseen situations, you can be sure that this handbook will be your perfect companion to clear and confident diagnoses throughout your medical career.The bestselling Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery has been thoroughly revised for the fourth edition, to include brand new chapters on Paediatric Orthopaedics and Common Surgical Procedures, as well as new presentations, illustrations, and new anatomy and emergency indexes to aid quick reference.It is an invaluable tool for junior surgical trainees, medical students, nursing, paramedical, and rehabilitation staff.The fourth edition covers the assessment and preparation of the patient, anaesthesia and critical care, inflammation, wound healing and infection, and the key components of general surgical practice, as well as chapters on other surgical specialties, including plastic, paediatric, and orthopaedicsurgery. There are step-by-step descriptions of common operative surgical techniques, practical hints and procedures, and information on signs, symptoms, and rarities. Emergency presentations are clearly identified for rapid reference, and investigations and management plans are set out in a clearand easy-to-follow way. Surgically relevant anatomy and physiology has been expanded for each area, quick reference symbols ensure the reader is guided to key facts, and there is an increased focus on evidence-based practice with key references throughout.A cut above the rest, the fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery is the essential guide to clinical surgery and the surgical specialities. Review Review from previous edition: "It is pitched perfectly for the student studying for undergraduate clinical exams and for the general practice specialist training knowledge test. It would also serve as a helpful aide memoir for doctors dealing with a patient presenting with a problem outside their speciality." ―British Journal of Hospital Medicine July 2009"The idea is brilliant ― take symptoms, signs, and examination findings, and suggest the most likely diagnosis. Then discuss how best to confirm it...once again OUP have come up trumps with another fine addition to the handbook family." ―Dr Jeremy Sagar, Univadis May 2009"Whether you use its easy layout and concise size as a quick reference on wards or as a key text on those differential diagnosis questions in your private study, this book aims to help you come to terms with one of the hardest skills known to medical students." ―Steve Knight, Year 4 Intercalating Student, Leicesterscrubs.com 2009"...not only does this book provide clearly headed pages of presenting complaints together with lists of their possible differentials - its layout is specifically designed in such a way to make you consistently mimic that used by clinicians on wards everyday...The usefulness of this book to your clinical years, combined with your OHCM, shouldn't be underestimated" ―Steve Knig