ALGORITHMS IN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS: HOW TO APPROACH COMMON PRESENTING COMPLAINTS IN ADULT PATIENTS, FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AND JUNIOR DOCTORS

by Nigel Jie Ming Fong

This is a book for medical students and first-year doctors who wish to learn how to approach a patient's symptoms, and sharpen their skills of clinical reasoning and diagnosis. Fifty-four presenting symptoms are discussed, covering approaches and conditions across various medical and surgical disciplines. Each chapter sets out the thought process behind history, examination, and investigations for a symptom, providing a systematic and practical algorithm to distinguish one differential from another. The reader will gain not only a functional approach to patients' presenting complaints, but also learn how to better organize and apply medical knowledge in diagnostic reasoning.
Medical students and first-year doctors.

500 pages, Paperback

Published February 11, 2019