- Quick Reference Material
- Preface to first edition
- Preface to the ninth edition
- Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements for the ninth edition
- Symbols and abbreviations
- How to conduct ourselves when juggling with symbols
- Dedication
- Amendments and Errata
- Amendments and Errata to Eighth Edition
- Amendments and Errata to Seventh Edition
- Amendments and Errata to Sixth Edition
- Amendments and Errata to Fifth Edition
- 1 Thinking about medicine
- 2 History and examination
- 3 Cardiovascular medicine
- 4 Chest medicine
- 5 Endocrinology
- 6 Gastroenterology
- 7 Renal medicine
- 8 Haematology
- 9 Infectious diseases<sup>1</sup>
- 10 Neurology
- 11 Oncology and palliative care
- 12 Rheumatology
- 13 Surgery
- 14 Epidemiology
- 15 Clinical chemistry
- 16 Eponymous syndromes
- 17 Radiology
- 18 Reference intervals, etc.
- 19 Practical procedures
- 20 Emergencies<sup>1</sup>
- Chapter references and further reading
- Weblinks for Eighth Edition
- Weblinks for Seventh Edition
- Weblinks for Sixth Edition
- Index
(p. 0) Thinking about medicine
- Chapter:
- (p. 0) Thinking about medicine
- Author(s):
Murray Longmore
, Ian B. Wilkinson
, Andrew Baldwin
, and Elizabeth Wallin
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199609628.003.0001
The Hippocratic oath
Ideals
The bedside manner
Asking questions
Finding narrative answers
Death
Facing and managing death
Prescribing drugs
Surviving life on the wards
Resource allocation
Psychiatry on the wards
The elderly patient in hospital
The art of diagnosing
On being busy
Health and medical ethics...
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- Quick Reference Material
- Preface to first edition
- Preface to the ninth edition
- Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements for the ninth edition
- Symbols and abbreviations
- How to conduct ourselves when juggling with symbols
- Dedication
- Amendments and Errata
- Amendments and Errata to Eighth Edition
- Amendments and Errata to Seventh Edition
- Amendments and Errata to Sixth Edition
- Amendments and Errata to Fifth Edition
- 1 Thinking about medicine
- 2 History and examination
- 3 Cardiovascular medicine
- 4 Chest medicine
- 5 Endocrinology
- 6 Gastroenterology
- 7 Renal medicine
- 8 Haematology
- 9 Infectious diseases<sup>1</sup>
- 10 Neurology
- 11 Oncology and palliative care
- 12 Rheumatology
- 13 Surgery
- 14 Epidemiology
- 15 Clinical chemistry
- 16 Eponymous syndromes
- 17 Radiology
- 18 Reference intervals, etc.
- 19 Practical procedures
- 20 Emergencies<sup>1</sup>
- Chapter references and further reading
- Weblinks for Eighth Edition
- Weblinks for Seventh Edition
- Weblinks for Sixth Edition
- Index