Stuart Bloom (editor) - Oxford Handbook of Gastroenterology & Hepatology (Oxford Medical Handbooks)

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We learnt a lot from reading other volumes in the Oxford Handbook series with overlapping content (the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine and the Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine in particular). We are grateful to our colleagues at University College London Hospitals and UCL, who kindly reviewed the book, and particular thanks to Daniel Marks, Ailsa Hart, and Raza Malik, who carefully read, edited, and improved the text. Thanks, as ever, also go to our families who remained incredibly supportive throughout, even with the realization that writing a little book never takes a little time!

So heres the result, and we hope you find this book of practical use, fun, and informative. We would welcome feedback, which can be directed to us via the OUP website www.oup.co.uk/academic/medicine/handbooks/comments

Stuart Bloom and George Webster

University College London Hospitals

2006

It is quite remarkable how much information is contained within this handbook, but the authors never forget its primary functionto provide clear and easily available evidence-based facts. It does not dwell on the evidence, always giving priority to clear management advice, but gives the reader the chance to pursue the background further with a few well-selected references.

The authors manage to make it relevant to all doctors confronted by patients with gastrointestinal symptoms. The handbook will instruct the medical student on the approach to the patient, guide the junior doctor on what do in the night, remind the registrars of their MRCP knowledge, and reassure the senior doctor that the principles of good patient care remain the same. It is nonetheless up to date in the latest therapies, which is important in a specialty with its fair share of -mibs and -mabs. In an era where there is often too much information available, it is good to have a resource that is tried, tested, up to date, and produced by gastroenterologists who have the respect of their peers.

Sir Ian Gilmore DL

Director, Liverpool Centre for Alcohol Research

Chairman, Alcohol Health Alliance, UK

We were delighted to be approached by OUP to write a third edition of this text, which has given us an opportunity to take stock and reflect on developments in gastroenterology and hepatology over the past 8 years. It is not an overstatement that there have been transformational advances in both specialties: a profusion of new therapies for inflammatory GI diseases, the evolution of chronic viral hepatitides from often lifelong infections to be managed to potentially curable, and major updates across the board in cancer screening and management algorithms.