Dr Katharine Owen (editor) - Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes (Oxford Medical Handbooks)

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For someone who loves endocrinology, it is a great pleasure to read and use the Oxford Handbook in day-to-day clinical practice. The editors have tried to make an accessible, succinct, comprehensive, and up-to-date text, laid out to be readable and readily assimilable. It aims to cover all endocrine and diabetes occasions, common and less common, dealing with the background science, guidelines on investigation, and advice on treatment. It is written by internationally highly acknowledged experts for trainees, consultants who may have the occasional memory lapse, nurses, and those in primary care with whom we are increasingly sharing joined-up management.

This Handbook is special, as it presents a global appreciation of endocrinology, describing clinical pathways and medications which are primarily based on, and used in, the European experience, while where possible also medical therapy in countries with limited medical resources is addressed.

It is remarkable how much has changed since the first publication in 2002, as well as since the third edition in 2014. New genetic and metabolic mechanisms of disease, new and improved imaging techniques, new drugs, and complications thereof, and thus new management, are all covered in this new edition. In doing this, the editors have sought to include many of the recent guidelines which summarize new evidence in the significantly updated references that are given.

In the new edition, topic sections have been included on transitional endocrinology and diabetes, and newly recognized conditions such as IgG4 disease. The sections on fertility and transgender issues have been extensively updated to encompass new developments. There is also a new chapter on medicolegal issues engendered by some of the complaints within our specialty. This includes governance issues such as consent, duty of confidentiality, and safe driving advice. The nursing section has also been expanded to include more practical advice about travel, fasting, updated glucocorticoid advice, and psychological challenges which face our patients. There is also a discussion on nurse-led clinics which are an important newer addition to our specialty and which can not only increase the quality of care given to our patients, but also increase throughput, in a specialty where outpatient numbers are going up over and above those in general medicine.