HARRISON.S PRINCIPLES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE (2 VOLUME SET)

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The acclaimed,landmark guide to internal medicineupdated to reflect the latest guidelinesand recommendations.
The Voice of Clinical Reason
For more than seven decades, Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine hasprovided healthcare professionals with the informational foundation needed toprovide optimal patient care. The worlds leading authority on appliedpathophysiology and clinical medicine, this trusted resource has coveredcountless advances and developments across the full span of medicine. 
Fully updated, the new 22nd edition has been modified extensively in itsstructure and content and offers a standardized format for each diseasechapter. The authors and editors have curated and synthesized the vast amountof information that comprises general internal medicine and each of the majorspecialties into a highly readable and informative resource. 
Harrisons is world-renowned as the most authoritative source for: 

Descriptionsof disease mechanisms and how the clinician can apply that knowledge for thebest patient care and optimal diagnosis and treatment of specificdiseases 

Clear,concise schemas that facilitate the generation of differential diagnoses toreason efficiently through complex real world clinical cases

Thephysiologic and epidemiologic basis of signs and symptoms, which are coveredthrough a wealth of unsurpassed expert guidance and linked to thedisease-specific chapters that follow

Updatedclinical trial results and recommended guidelines

Excellentand extensive visual support, including radiographs, clinical photos,schematics, and high-quality drawings

Coverage ofboth therapeutic approaches and specific treatment regimens

Practicalclinical decision trees and algorithms

Organ- andsystem-specific sections, with clinically relevant pathophysiology andpractical clinical advice on the approach to the patient, strategies towardsbuilding a differential diagnosis, outstanding clinical algorithms anddiagnostic schema, a wealth of clinical images and diagrams, current clinicalguidelines, as well as general and specific approaches to therapy

Thistwenty-second edition features:

Updatedcontent that reflects new approved therapeutics and new practice-changingguidelines and evidence summaries

More than3,000, clinical, pathological, and radiographic photographs, diagnostic andtherapeutic decision trees, and clear schematics and diagrams describingpathophysiologic processes

Numerousatlases featuring curated collections of important visual aspects of diagnosisand management

Brand newchapters, including The Value of the Physical Examination in Modern Medicine,Physician Well-Being, Exercise Intolerance, Primary and SecondaryHemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis, Symptom Controlin Patients with Cancer, Principles of Immunization, COVID and OtherCoronavirus Infections, Desensitization, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Placebo andNocebo Effects, Bedside Examination Tests in the Patient with Low Back Pain,and Antithrombotic Therapy in Adult Patients

Dan L. Longo, MD,is professor of medicine at Harvard University School of Medicine, seniorphysician at Brigham and Womens Hospital, and deputy editor of the NewEngland Journal of Medicine.
Anthony S. Fauci, MD, is distinguished professor at Georgetown UniversitySchool of Medicine and the McCourt School of Public Policy in Washington, DC.
Dennis L. Kasper, MD, is William Emery Channing Professor of Medicine andprofessor of immunology at Harvard Medical School, Division of InfectiousDiseases, Brigham and Womens Hospital.
Stephen L. Hauser, MD, is Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor ofNeurology and director of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences for theUniversity of California, San Francisco.
J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, is Robert G. Dunlop Professor of Medicine, andinterim president of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, is Hersey Distinguished Professor of the Theory andPractice of Medicine, and Samuel A. Levine Professor of Medicine at HarvardMedical School, physician-in-chief emeritus and chair emeritus of theDepartment of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Steven M. Holland, MD, is scientific director of the National Institute ofAllergy and Infectious Disease and distinguished investigator at the NationalInstitutes of Health in Maryland.
Carol A Langford, MD, MHS, is Harold C. Schott Endowed Chair in Rheumaticand Immunologic Diseases, professor of medicine at Cleveland Clinic LernerCollege of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University of Medicine, anddirector of the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research Department of Rheumaticand Immunologic Diseases at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.