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Annually updated, this clinical reference of general internal medicine covers both ambulatory and inpatient medicine, and includes speciality areas important to primary care physicians. New and revised chapters include: preoperative assessment; skin; blood vessels and lymphatics and mycotic. Features include up-to-date information on HIV infection and AIDS, and the latest clinical practice guidelines from the Agency for Health Care Policy Research of the United States Public Health Service, drug trade names indexed, a complete listing of United States Poison Control Centres with telephone numbers, CD-ROM version available, and Essentials of Diagnosis identifies major features of each disorder.