Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine

Authors: Brian R. Walker, Nicki R Colledge, Stuart H. Ralston, Ian D Penman
Publisher: Elsevier
Edition: 22
Publish Year: 2014
ISBN: 9780702050473

The underlying principles of medicine are described concisely in the first part of the book, and the detailed practice of medicine within each sub-specialty is described in later system-based chapters.
Most chapters begin with a two-page overview of the important elements of the clinical examination, including a manikin to illustrate the key steps in the examination of the relevant system.
A practical, problem-based clinical approach is described in the ‘Presenting Problems’ sections, to complement the detailed descriptions of each disease.
The text is extensively illustrated, with over 1000 diagrams, clinical photographs, and radiology and pathology images.
1350 text boxes present information in a way suitable for revision, including 150 clinical evidence boxes summarising the results of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials and 65 ’In Old Age’ boxes highlighting important aspects of medical practice in the older population.
A combined index and glossary of medical acronyms contains over 10 000 subject entries. The contents can also be searched comprehensively as part of the online access to the whole book on the StudentConsult platform.