Internal Medicine

Medicine Update 2018

Program are compiled in the form of a book titled Medicine Update. This year the Medicine
Update is edited by the President Elect, Dr Pritam Gupta, a very senior practitioner of medicine in North India. The theme chosen by Dr Pritam Gupta is Dawn of New Era in Medicine which truly reflects the spirit and advancement in the field of medicine.

Dr Pritam Gupta has been successful in getting the contributions from the doctors all over the country and they are all experts in their own field and have command over the subject matter. This book has covered all the newer advancements in the field of diagnosis and management of diseases. The book covers the global context of medicine and has also been very successful being relevant to the Indian context. This book is a multiauthored compilation so there is a variation in the style of presentation and conveying the message.

However, the Editor—Dr Pritam Gupta and his team of editorial board have tried to present the data in a precise and uniform pattern. Moreover, these publications of API have a very useful supplementary role to the Textbook of Medicine which is published once in three years.

We are grateful to the authors for having spared their valuable time and expertise by contributing to this book. Dr Pritam Gupta deserves our thanks and appreciation for having compiled the book which provides a concise, easy-toread and knowledge for gearing up the clinicians of India for practice of medicine in future as well.

The book is appealing to the eye, the style and formatting are easy-to-read and the language is simple and easy to understand. I am sure this effort of Dr Pritam Gupta will find place on the desk of all doctors who can lay their hands on this useful compilation for ready reference, and learning the new trend, and thought in changing medicine.

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