A comprehensive and attractively presented 4-colour textbook of surgery aimed primarily at medical students but also of use to junior doctors and surgical technicians. The book has two key features: firstly, it provides students with coverage of every aspect of surgery; secondly, it has been designed and written to be the ‘surgical companion’ to Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine. This new edition will also offer an online version to all purchasers of the book – the first surgical textbook in the UK to make an electronic version available. * comprehensive account of surgery - students only need to buy one text * covers general issues - wound healing, pain control, etc - in the first section - by grouping these issues into one section at the beginning, students are immediately given an overview of what makes surgery 'different' * a regional approach is adopted for the largest section - section 2 - this is the classic way in which surgeons talk about surgery to each other * the third section covers surgical specialities - paediatrics, endocrinology, urology - and also includes specialities such as ophthalmology, ENT and orthopaedics - these are the chapters that are often omitted from competing books , in the interests of saving space * the logical arrangement of the three sections makes the book easy to use and refer to in clinical practice