The new edition of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine is the bestyet. It has been completely reset in more readable type, it contains morediagrams and boxes and completely new chapters. But, most important, has beenthe meticulous updating of each page with the best that evidence-based medicinecan offer. Concise, readable, and authoritative, the text is a model ofeverything a Handbook should be. But it is more than model -- it is the onetrusted friend found in white coat pockets the world over - now reborn in newcolours with a new full-colour plate section and a wealth of new material.This Handbook is associated with its own web site, and widely acclaimedupdateable electronic version (the Oxford Clinical Mentor). Thus OxfordUniversity Press offers a complete system for updateable clinical information.New topics for this edition include: surviving house jobs, medical ethics,assessing the locomotor system, the role of jargon, facial pain, walkingdifficulty, help for patients with Alzheimer's and their carers, fundoplation,somatization, exotic infections, what every doctor needs to know about HIV,anti-HIV drugs in detail, numbers-needed-to-treat, screening, cardiovascularhealth, Candida in ITU, posteria myocardial infarction, atheroma and themechanism and action of statin drugs.