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Section I General information |
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Chapter 1 Welcome to medical practice |
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Chapter 2 The junior doctor |
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Chapter 4 Professionalism |
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Chapter 6 Teaching and education |
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Chapter 7 Representation of junior doctors |
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Section II Initial assessments |
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Chapter 9 The emergency department |
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Chapter 10 Critical care assessments |
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Chapter 11 Initial assessment of patients: history and examination |
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Chapter 12 Investigations: serology |
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Chapter 13 Investigations: other pathology |
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Chapter 14 Investigations: imaging |
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Chapter 15 Making referrals |
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Chapter 17 Clinical procedures |
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Chapter 18 The patient with mental illness |
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Chapter 19 Forensic medicine |
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Chapter 20 Notifiable diseases |
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Chapter 21 The inpatient ward |
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Chapter 23 Inpatient prescribing |
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Chapter 24 Managing fluids and infusions |
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Chapter 25 The deteriorating patient |
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Chapter 26 The dying patient |
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Chapter 27 The deceased patient |
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Chapter 28 The preoperative patient |
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Chapter 29 The operating theatre |
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Chapter 30 The postoperative patient |
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Chapter 31 Inpatient discharges |
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Chapter 32 Allied health and clinical support staff |
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Section IV Medical and surgical specialties |
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Chapter 34 General medicine |
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Chapter 36 Respiratory medicine |
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Chapter 37 Gastroenterology |
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Chapter 38 Renal medicine |
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Chapter 41 Infectious diseases |
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Chapter 42 Medical oncology |
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Chapter 45 General surgery |
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Chapter 46 Orthopaedic surgery |
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Chapter 47 Vascular surgery |
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Chapter 48 Cardiothoracic surgery |
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Chapter 49 Ear, nose and throat (ENT) and head and neck surgery |
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Chapter 51 Plastic and reconstructive surgery |
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Chapter 53 Pre-admission clinic |
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Chapter 54 Informed consent |
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Chapter 55 Medical outpatient clinics |
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Chapter 56 Cardiology outpatients |
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Chapter 57 Respiratory outpatients |
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Chapter 58 Gastroenterology outpatients |
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Chapter 59 Renal outpatients |
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Chapter 60 Endocrinology outpatients |
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Chapter 61 Neurology outpatients |
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Chapter 62 Medical oncology outpatients |
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Chapter 63 Haematology outpatients |
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Chapter 64 Rheumatology outpatients |
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762 | (9) |
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Chapter 65 Surgical clinics |
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Chapter 66 General surgery outpatients |
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Chapter 67 Orthopaedic outpatients |
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Chapter 68 Vascular outpatients |
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Chapter 69 Cardiothoracic outpatients |
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Chapter 70 Ear, nose and throat and head and neck outpatients |
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Chapter 71 Neurosurgery outpatients |
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Chapter 72 Plastic and reconstructive surgery outpatients |
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Chapter 73 Urology outpatients |
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| Appendix I Common medications |
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| Appendix II Normal laboratory values |
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| Appendix III Microbiology |
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| Appendix IV Antibiotics |
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| Index |
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