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The book is completely revised, updated, and better illustrated. There are over 3000 pages with 1622 figures and 1460 tables. These large numbers of tables and figures have been used so that the information is easily understood and reading is facilitated. In this endeavor, many new additions have been done as compared to the previous edition. The book consists of 29 parts and each part discusses a group of disorders. In addition, 28 new chapters have also been added.

1. An entirely new part Future of Medicine, has been added. This part of the book deals with the anticipated progress in medicine which will be put to clinical use in the coming one to two decades or the advances that are being used in their early stages in clinical practice.

2. A new chapter on Disease Profile and Epidemiology of Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases in India has been added so that the reader has an ample understanding of the diseases commonly prevalent in this part of the world.

3. During the 9th edition, a new part had been added Clinical Approach to Key Manifestations. This has been further expanded and six new chapters have been added out of which one deals with the selection of the imaging modality which will be best suited to a clinical condition.

4. Part 4 of the book on Clinical Pharmacology has been re-oriented and new authors have contributed chapters. One of the chapters deals with the National Formulary of India in the National Health System.

5. Part 7 on Critical Care Medicine has been thoroughly revised and to put adequate emphasis on cardiac resuscitation, a separate chapter has been devoted to Advanced Cardiac Life Support System.

6. The parts of the book dealing with various lifestyle disorders such as diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases have been re-oriented for a better understanding of the newer guidelines which have emerged.

7. A chapter on lifestyle measures, diabetes in the elderly, and prevention of cardiovascular diseases have been added and discussed.

8. In the part dealing with gastrointestinal disorders, Pancreatitis has been divided into two parts—a chapter on Acute Pancreatitis and the other on Chronic Pancreatitis have been added, while Neoplasms of the Pancreas finds a separate chapter.

9. Similarly, Tumours of the Liver has been discussed as a separate chapter.

10. Chronic pulmonary disorders and sleep-related pulmonary disorders are increasing in prevalence and to address these issues the chapters have been thoroughly re-written and a chapter on Pulmonary Rehabilitation has been added in this part of the book.

11. Similarly, the management of stroke has been significantly modified and the chapters on Ischaemic or Haemorrhagic Stroke have been thoroughly revised and re-written.

12. A chapter on Oral Health and its relationship to systemic diseases has been presented separately.

13. For the first time, Futuristic Medicine and the problems of Space Travel have been delineated and highlighted.