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Product Description The Oxford Handbook of General Practice for PDAs enables enhanced, multi-layered access to the entire text, illustrations and tables. Fast access is available via the table of contents, index, and full-text search, and there is a facility for book-marking and annotating the text. It issuitable for most Palm, Windows CE and Pocket PC devices. A lifeline for the busy GP, the Oxford Handbook of General Practie covers the whole of general practice. It includes hands-on advice and allows rapid access to information to help with any day-to-day problems which might arise in general practice. The general practice section has been revised to include the General Medical Services contract and appraisal and revalidation. There are chapters on complementary medicine, chronic disease management and elderly care and increased emphasis on evidence based medicine, sports medicine and practicein a multicultural society. Pointers to further information for GPs and advice and support for patients, which can be easily accessed from the GP surgery, are included throughout. Review `Review from previous edition An outstanding and useful text, de rigeur for young registrars.' British Journal of General Practice September 2002`A very useful rapid reference tool.' Update 26 September 2002`A truly outstanding book... a breathtaking tour of general practice is provided... Despite the book's portability it will provide the average GP and GP Registrar with fantastic and up-to-date advice on how to manage most standard front line clinical problems... the price is very competitive, making it outstanding value for money. I suspect this will become a standard text for GP Registrars and very popular amongst practising GPs. For a first edition, this is an outstanding offering and I am sure that there will be a long line of future editions.' Dr Harry Brown October 2002`This is a very nice and handy reference book for the GP for day-to-day practice.' Doody's Journal May 2006`This is a book that demands to be used. It is well built for the job... The book is hugely and surprisingly comprehensive, covering vast tracts of areas of knowledge that GPs need to possess. Clinical and non-clinical areas are amply covered in really good detail. The style is factual yet helpful and accessible and a simple scan of the relevant section is likely to help a GP manage a situation.... For GP trainers like myself, this is an excellent source of tutorial material. The clinical sections are just good.... it is a frontline recipe book for all GP - busy or not so busy. Without doubt, in my mind this is the best available book for British general practice and it is ideal for GP registrars, newly starting GPs, mid-career GPs and GPs wanting to freshen up their knowledge.... there is little excuse not to buy it.' Dr Harry Brown`What a treat - 1,100 pages of condensed knowledge and wisdom on everything from the new contract to what to do for obstetric shock.... this is an essential - and I mean essential - piece of kit.' The Sessional GP December 2005 - January 2006`A comprehensive guide to nearly everything. It is the yellow book equivalent for general practice. If you only buy one book, make sure it is this one.' British Medical Journal October 2005`Small yet perfectly formed! This book is small enough to fit into any bag, or a capacious pocket, yet covers almost anything (clinical, practical, administrative) that any doctor or undergraduate working in general practice needs to know...I am extremely pleased to have been able to use and review this book. I have no hesitation in recommending it to its target audience' BMA Medical Book Competition 2006 About the Author Chantal Simon and Hazel Everitt are both Research Training Fellows at the University of Southampton. Tony Kendrick is a Professor at the School of Medicine at the University of Southampton in the UK.