(BQ) Part 1 boook “A clinical approach to medicine” has contents: Emergency medicine, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, immunology, internal medicine. | A CLINICAL APPROACH TO MEDICINE Second Edition This page intentionally left blank A CLINICAL APPROACH TO MEDICINE sECOND eDITION EDITORS yONG yAU ong, kENG tHYE woo hAN sEONG ng, pATRICK tan & oNG tENG tang World Scientific NEW JERSEY . LONDON . SINGAPORE . BEIJING . SHANGHAI . HONG KONG . TAIPEI . CHENNAI Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A CLINICAL APPROACH TO MEDICINE Second Edition Copyright © 2005 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN 981-238-926-1 ISBN 981-256-073-4 (pbk) Typeset by Stallion Press Email: enquiries@ Printed in .