This brand-new handbook covers all of the essential topics encountered in the daily practice-written by contributors from the Johns Hopkins Hospital. A volume i

A handbook of medical topics encountered in daily practice; an evidence-based approach to the care of patients admitted to a general medical service; modeled on

In his time the most famous physician in the world, Canadian-born William Osler (1849-1919) is still the best-known figure in the history of medicine. This new,