Description
Common problems presenting in modern clinical practice have been selected for this book in order to guide students and even clinicians towards a logical approach to establishing a diagnosis.
Specific organs are not discussed here, instead conditions have been selected where the physician has to consider a possible lesion or disorder of function in more than one organ or body system. For example 'abdominal pain' may not occur simply as a result of gastrointestinal disease but arise from the heart or pleura or from systemic disease or from metabolic or neurological disorders.
Flow diagrams at the end of each chapter provide useful summaries of the sequence of procedures in diagnosis for instant reference. Clinical points in the margins highlight the important facts and simplify the learning procedure.
Clinical medical students on the wards, as well as postgraduate students sitting membership examinations and junior physicians, during their resident periods, will find this book useful.
This text is a concise practical approach to common problems in clinical medicine and how to make the diagnosis. ISBN:0723606781
