When quick decisions are required, the clinic guide provides everything you need to know. It includes concrete action guidelines for precise initial diagnostics, recommendations for adequate primary therapy, all relevant emergency situations with immediate measures, shock room management, detailed knowledge of surgical techniques and imaging diagnostics, as well as information on informed consent prior to surgical procedures and tips for outpatient follow-up care. The new 4th edition has been expanded and revised with a new structure and layout. It also includes current occupational accident procedures, medical-legal advice and tips, valid guidelines from the respective professional societies, the new Patient Rights Act, and a tabular foreign language guide in the appendix with common phrases and words for patient conversations in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish.