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Bedside Approach to Medical Therapeutics with Diagnostic Clues
© 2005, NK Gami
All rights reserved. No part of this publication should be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means: electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the editor and the publisher.
First Edition: 2005
9788180615153
Typeset at JPBMP typesetting unit
Printed at Gopsons Papers Ltd., A-14, Sector 60, Noida
Dedicated to My Teacher
Late Dr. SKN Sinha
frcp (edinburgh)
Ex Prof. and Head of the Dept. of Medicine
Darbhanga Medical College, Darbhanga, Bihar
Dedicated
to my parents,
wife Aruna,
sons—Nishith and Manoj
and
daughters—Reeta, Kavita and Tanuja
7Foreword
Medical therapeutics has made tremendous progress. Every month new drugs and new methods of treatment are evolving. Many books on therapeutics are available but they are mostly written by pharmacologists. The book “Bedside Approach to Medical Therapeutics with Diagnostic Clues” written by Dr. NK Gami, FRCP (Edinburgh) who is himself a clinician active in clinical practice. He has seen different methods of treatment here and abroad. This book reflects both the world.
The chapters are comprehensive. Brevity reigns supreme in every chapter. Concise and diagnostic clues are added charms. Flow charts and tables are judiciously placed wherever needed. This book will be welcome by all sections in Medical Practice.
Dr. DN Jha md
Prof and Head of the Department of Medicine
Darbhanga Medical College
Darbhanga, Bihar
9Preface
“There is no such thing as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure”.
—Bernard Mannes Baruch
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine remains humanitarian and respected profession or a depersonalised science of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering”.
—Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
This book is a bedside approach to medical therapeutics. The purpose is to provide quick and ready reference to up-to-date management of patients at bedside. The author has taken much pain in providing in nutshell intricacies of treatment at the same time simplifying to the utmost.
Notable Features
- Includes recent advances up to time of publication.
- Recent data obtained from the Internet wherever possible.
- Extensive coverage of essentials of method of treatment without irrelevant details.
- Brevity, conciseness and quick accessibility of key information in a readable format.
“He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest”.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–1681)
Who will Appreciate the Book
- House officers and medical students both undergraduate and postgraduate.
- Internist, family physician and other specialists.
- General practitioners.
I will be indebted to readers if they will be benefited and help in the management of their patients.
Nagendra Kumar Gami
11Acknowledgements
- My gratitude to my teachers, my colleagues and my students from whom I have learned much.
- My sincere thanks to authors of the following books (latest editions) who helped me a lot in preparing the book:
- Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
- Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics
- Harrison Principal of Internal Medicine
- API Textbook of Medicine
- My sincere thanks to Prof. DN Jha MD for writing a foreword.
- My sincere thanks to the staff of Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd., New Delhi for painstaking efforts to complete this task with precision.
- I wish my thanks to my colleagues and friends here and abroad for helping me in this endeavour.
- I feel indebted to the pharmaceutical houses and editors of prescribers, Handbook for Up-to-date Information About the Recent Drugs.
- I continue to welcome comments and recommendations for future editions in writing.