E-Book Overview
Clinical Problems provides a comprehensive selection of important medical and surgical scenarios. The reader is taken through 62 case histories step by step and is asked to interpret a broad range of medical data.
* Addresses important medical and surgical topics from a problem-oriented approach.
* Presents relevant clinical illustrations for each case, such as ECGs, radiographs, and clinical and pathologi-cal photographs.
* Emphasizes empathy with the patient's situation as well as effective patient counseling.
* Provides commentaries from experienced clinicians, highlighting the most important issues of each case and offering suggestions on possible further areas of study.
* Identifies situations where emergency management must take precedence over pathophysiological diagnosis.
E-Book Content
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Clinical Problems in General Medicine and Surgery
Commissioning Editor: Laurence Hunter Project Development Manager: Hannah Kenner Project Manager: Frances Affleck Designer: Sarah Russell
Clinical Problems in General Medicine and Surgery SECOND EDITION
Peter Devitt Associate Professor Department of Surgery Royal Adelaide Hospital Adelaide, Australia
Juliet Barker Assistant Professor Department of Medicine University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA
Jonathan Mitchell Clinical Fellow in Hepatology Institute of Liver Studies Kings College Hospital London, UK
Christian Hamilton-Craig Medical Registrar St Vincent's Hospital; Associate Lecturer University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
Foreword by Roy Pounder Professor of Medicine Royal Free & University College Medical School London, UK CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE EDINBURGH LONDON NEW YORK OXFORD PHILADELPHIA ST LOUIS SYDNEY TORONTO 2003
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