Introducing the most dramatically revised edition of Harrison's ever!Now with NEW bonus DVD with 37 chapters and more than 500 brand new images and video clips!A Doody's Core Title ESSENTIAL PURCHASE!5 STAR DOODY'S REVIEWThe book is for anyone who has the remotest association with the practice of medicine, be they internists, surgeons, nurses, technical staff, or counselors. This is the authority, and in a time of readily available but not always accurate information, this is the one source that can be relied upon....This is one of the absolute pillars of any medical library. It is the final word in internal medicine and we all owe a debt of gratitude to the editors and contributors who have created this extraordinary authority in medicine.—Doody's Review ServiceMORE THAN TRUSTED, BEYOND ESSENTIAL . . .The #1 selling medical textbook worldwide, Harrison's has defined internal medicine for millions of clinicians and students. The new 17th Edition retains Harrison's acclaimed balance of pathobiology, cardinal signs and manifestations of disease, and best approaches to patient management, yet has been massively updated to give you an innovative array of bold new features and content. If ever there was one must-have resource for clinicians and students — this is it!UNMATCHED EXPERTISE AT YOUR FINGERTIPSAs an unprecedented amount of medical information bombards you and your patients, where do you go to sort it out and make sense of it all? When your patients request clarification on something they've printed off, where do you turn for expert explanations? The same trusted resource physicians and students have turned to for more than fifty years: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Now more than ever, trust Harrison's to filter and clarify the exploding knowledge base, to highlight the breakthroughs, and to deliver a clear, balanced distillation of the best and most current information on which to base clinical decisions.THE MOST EXCITING AND EXTENSIVELY REVISED EDITION EVER!Here are just a few of the reasons why the new 17th Edition of Harrison's is the best edition yet:Bonus companion DVD featuring:37 new e-chapters; over 500 brand-new radiological, laboratory, and clinical images, including complete atlases; state-of-the-art video clips; an Image Bank of nearly all the illustrations contained in the parent text, and much moreExpanded, modernized illustration program with more than 800 brand-new, additional illustrations—a 60% increase over the previous editionDozens of brand new chapters on vital topics in medical education and clinical practice: Global Issues in Medicine: Patient Safety and Health Quality; Health Disparities: Atlas of EKGs; Clinical Management of Obesity; Atlas of Hematology; Atlases of Chest, Neurological, and Cardiovascular Radiology; and much more! Also included is a complete new section on biological foundations and emerging clinical applications of regenerative medicine!Brand new, reader-friendly text design optimizes the full-color formatAn expanded, innovative focus on global healthNEW Global Advisory Board comprising 11 prominent medical experts from Asia, India, Europe, and South AmericaRevision of the popular On Line Learning Center, which offers more skill-sharpening self-assessment questions and answers, plus additional case studies for helping you apply...