This handbook provides a readily assimilable white coat pocket book in endocrinology and diabetes. The target audience is specialist registrars and SHOs in endocrinology, diabetes and internal medicine, and also consultants who require a handy aide-memoire. There is no other book that discusses clinical investigation and management in such a convenient way, including both the protocols and explicit clinical information necessary for the management of individual patients. All the individual chapters have been scrutinized by an expert panel of referees to ensure a high quality product of international standing. This is a book to be carried the clinic and the wards.