Medicine in a Minute (Student Medicine)

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Winner of the Young Authors Award at the BMA book awards 2019! Highly Commended in the Medicine category! Here's what the BMA reviewers said: "I would unreservedly recommend this book to any medical student and indeed anyone else who wanted to learn more about internal medicine including junior doctors, nurses, physicians' assistants. I would have loved a book like this when I was a medical student." Medicine in a Minute is a brand new full-colour text covering the fundamentals of undergraduate medicine in one book. The book is edited and written by two of the authors behind the bestselling Cardiology in a Heartbeat and features several common design elements and features. The book is divided into body systems and then each section within the particular body system follows a consistent pattern: DefinitionEpidemiologyRisk factorsDifferential diagnosisAetiologyPathophysiologyClinical featuresInvestigationsManagementMedicine in a Minute is a student-friendly, concise text that you will want close to hand throughout your studies. Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Preface Abbreviations 1. Cardiology 2. Respiratory medicine 3. Gastroenterology and hepatobiliary medicine 4. Endocrinology 5. Neurology 6. Haematology, oncology and palliative medicine 7. Nephrology 8. Metabolic medicine and toxicology 9. Infectious disease 10. Rheumatology and immunology 11. Dermatology 12. The emergency ladder References Diagram Attributions Appendices Index