Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery

This book presents a succinct account of current surgical practice and general operative surgery, useful for medical. students, housemen, and junior surgical trainees. Each topic is dealt with in a single page with alternate pages leff blank to accommodate notes. There are sections on anatomy for surgeons, and on general, plastic, vascular, paediatric, endocrine, and orthopaedic surgery. Sections on practicai procedures and operative surgical techniques are included with iIIustrations to provide detail of and ready reference to the more commonly used form of techniques and procedures.

Each chapter is concise and clear. In addition, aspects of surgical philosophy, ethics, and the surgeon and the law are discussed Important subjects like surgery and the Pili, stopping smoking before surgery, and surgery and myocardial infarction are discussed. These are not the traditional fare of most surgical texts but are essential knowledge for surgeons in the perioperative care of their patients.