Product Description

Clinical Problems in Medicine and Surgery provides a comprehensive selection of important medical and surgical scenarios. The reader is taken through 66 case histories step by step and is asked to interpret a broad range of medical data. Most of the clinical problems are accompanied by illustrations, which include cardiographs, radiographs, clinical and pathological photographs. In addition to detailed questions and answers, a commentary is provided that highlights the important issues of each case, as well as a guide to further topics of study.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #267574 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
"I approached this book, when asked to review it, with some scepticism. The idea of putting together the clinical experience of surgical and medical senior registrars and younger consultants was a good one, but how could it be converted into a worthwhile book, and what would this mean to those who read it?
However, the more I read the more impressed I became. The authors have chosen a series of very important acute problems which are likely to be met at some stage by all those working in hospitals. They have conveyed an excellent sense of the clinical picture, giving a reality to the information that is conveyed subsequently. The book is said to be aimed at medical students but the essential information and patterns of thought will certainly be relevant to and appropriate for all practicing doctors who have to deal with acute problems.
The authors have appreciated that probably the most difficult thing for clinical students to learn is not the facts relating to pathophysiology but the appropriate pattern of clinical thought, in which history, physical examination and the appropriate use of organ imaging and laboratory data must be combined in the differential diagnosis and integration of problems. They recognise that differential diagnosis must be related to management decisions and identify those situations where emergency management must take precedence over definitive pathophysiological diagnosis in the early stages.
The book will be of value to graduate, undergraduate and continuing medical education students if used as a trigger to stimulate appropriate patterns of clinical thought." "J R Lawrence," Medical Journal of Australia
welcome departure from the traditionalstodgy medical textbook using the case history approach. Of definite appeal to junior hospital medical staff but General Practitioners should find plenty here to interest them." "Dr JM Sager," Medix-UK, July 2003
is the second edition of a popular revision tool aimed primarily at medical students and those in the early stages of their medical careers. I would strongly recommend this book to those approaching finals, particularly with the advent of the OSCE." "Dan O'Carroll, Alexandra Hospital, Redditch," Hospital Medicine, January 2004

Customer Reviews

A different approach
This book has a different approach to other textbooks/question books. The cases it presents are actually interesting and the questions get you thinking as you do in real life. The answers are through so you don't have too look up anything-it is all there. I just wish I had it at the start of clinicals.

Look no further than...
You've done all the hard work over the last 5/6 years. You've attended (some of) the tutorials, the lectures and used K&C for more than a doorstop. You've even read the revision books such as Smith and Baliga to get your grades stratospheric. But what's missing? - The clinical practice: 66 real life medical and surgical scenarios (I know cos I asked one of the consultants who wrote them) are laid before you....the clock is ticking and each scene is set. The patient arrives, what tests do you want to do...what do the results mean...what will happen if you give them this drug...BANG its all over and you need to call the lawyers in. From the 19 year old with the scrotal swelling to the 67 year old female with the acute lower abdo pain...its all here. This is the A&E of books for students and clinicians alike. If you want to bruise the old grey matter and be put through your paces but be rewarded with invaluable never forget lessons from fully explained answers that will have your examiners begging for encores in your OSCE's then look no further.

Refreshingly different approach to learning
A revelation of a book - a problem based approach where each chapter contains realistic case scenarios complete with photos, blood results, ECGs, CXRs and other investigations. Within each case, the questions are asked in stages as you gather more information from each investigation or piece of history you receive. The answers are provided over the page and always stimulate broad thinking about even the most straightforward questions. Each chapter then contains a short summary about the topic that was discussed. This supplements the very detailed answers provided to the questions.

This book is an excellent way to prepare for the data interpretation papers in finals (which often follow this format), and also generates some variety and, dare I say it, fun into your revision. I thoroughly recommend it for final year medical students revising for finals, as well as for junior doctors wishing to refresh their knowledge using real-life based scenarios.