Kumar and Clarks Acute General Medicine is a hands-on guide to the complex reality of clinical practice on a medical ward. Designed to support and facilitate the education of physicians through servce-based learning (as recommended by the GMC), the book is ideal for house officers, senior house officers and final year medical students. Divided into 17 chapters and nearly 200 topics, the book closely follwing the syllabus of the MRCP(UK) Part II exam. It takes a case-based approach to the diagnosis, investigation and management of patients, providing the help that all young physicians have been waiting for.