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Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis: A Practical Approach Author: Samir P. Desai
It's 9 PM and you are on call. As you wonder why you haven't been assigned a patient yet, your beeper rings. It's your resident. "I have a patient with hematuria for you." You come out of the patient's room after doing the history and physical, shaking your head. Having never seen a patient with hematuria before, you leaf through your Saint-Francis guide, Pocket Medicine, Wash manual, Ferri's, or other handbook in the hopes that one of your sources will walk you to the diagnosis. You find the differential diagnosis but you are dismayed at how long the list is as the clock turns 2 AM. How am I going to get through this and be ready for attending rounds? Why can't there be an easier way to work-up patients? If you have ever felt this way, you are not alone. Most medical students have wondered if there was a book that could lead you from symptom to diagnosis through a series of steps. We are pleased to inform you that there is - it's called the Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and it provides you with practical approaches to commonly encountered symptoms. These approaches have been designed to imimc the logical thought processes of seasoned clinicians like your attending physician. Let the Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis become your companion, providing you with the tools necessary to tackle even the most challenging symptoms. |
