Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology & Diabetes

Katharine Owen, Helen Turner, John Wass

Endocrinology and diabetes remain among the most fascinating of specialties with a very broad range of causation, presentation, and management. We have the ability in our specialty to radically change the quality and quantity of life, often within a few days of starting treatment.
Editing the Oxford Handbook has been huge fun and challenging. We 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 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.
It is remarkable how much has changed since the last edition. 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 edition. In doing this, we have sought to include many of the recent guidelines which summarize new evidence in the significantly updated references that are given. In the new topics, we have included sections on transitional endocrinology and diabetes, 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 edition to our specialty and which not only can increase the quality of care given to our patients, but also can increase throughput, in a specialty where outpatient numbers are going up over and above those in general medicine. The diabetes section has also been carefully reviewed to encompass changes in technology (continuous glucose monitoring/glucose monitoring/closed-loop), new treatments including immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes and an update on new treatments for type 2 diabetes, and their link to cardiovascular outcomes.
The section on genetics has been updated with guidance on screening, as well as a practical overview of genetic screening for the non-geneticist. In both sections, we have included advice on difficult clinical decisions, tricky issues, and clinical pearls in the relevant sections. Lastly, a publication from 2021 would not be complete without a COVID-19 section, which we have added in the form of website links. We are very indebted to our excellent authors who have worked
diligently to keep the publication on track. We hope that this publication will help to improve the science and knowledge base in our specialty in order to maintain high standards of care for our patients.

کتاب بنویس تا اتفاق بیفتد، دربردانده‌ی ماجراها و داستان‌های افرادی است که از طریق نوشتن و نیروی جذب توانسته‌اند به خواسته‌ها و اهداف‌شان در زندگی برسند.

این کتاب قدرت اشخاصی که تفکر مثبت دارند و خلاق هستند را به طور خلاصه شرح می‌دهد. این اشخاص بیش از اینکه رویکرد تفصیلی و بی‌معنی داشته باشند، دارای پیام مهمی هستند که با رویکرد "می‌خواهم پس اتفاق می‌افتد" همراه است. اگر بدانید چه می‌خواهید، آن را به دست خواهید آورد.

این اثر، کتابی فوق‌العاده عالی در مورد نوشتن و خلق کردن است. اینکه بدانید چه می‌خواهید و به دستش بیاورید.

تجربه ثابت کرده افرادی که اهداف کتبی دارند از زندگی بهتری نسبت به بقیه برخوردار هستند. اگر سررشته‌ی امور زندگی‌تان را به دست بگیرید و آن‌ها را اداره کنید می‌توانید به رویاهایتان جامه‌ی عمل بپوشانید.