***2010 BMA Book Awards - First Prize - Medicine category*** "This book is comprehensive, student friendly (if still intimidating in size!) and covers such a vast breadth of knowledge. It still remains the primary 'must-have' text book of any budding doctor, or qualified one at that. This book is stunning in its breadth and in its ease of use. It still remains as the 'gold-standard' thorough guide to clinical medicine its forefathers were. BMA Judges' quote Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine is known, respected and admired by medical students, doctors and health professionals throughout the world. It provides in one volume a comprehensive and authoritative source of information on the management and treatment of medical problems. Clarity of writing, a hallmark of Kumar and Clark, has been combined with a colourful and attractive presentation and a companion website to produce a complete resource of medical information. Kumar and Clark is now regarded as the one book that every aspiring and qualified doctor should own. Colour-coded chapters make the book attractive and easy to navigate. Drawings and photographs bring the subjects to life. Boxes and tables pull out and display important information. Clear headings and a comprehensive index allow the reader to pinpoint information quickly and accurately. The online version has been extended and updated as part of the Student Consult platform. Over 100 new illustrations. Five new contributors. Thoroughly updated, rewritten and revised to reflect changes in practice and approach. Online version with extra content, including animations and sounds, and fuller treatments of regionally specific medical problems such as malaria, SARS, TB, viral haemorrhagic (dengue) fever, leprosy, snake bite etc. Expanded input from the International Advisory Panel of experts from around the world, augmenting the book's international scope.