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	CLINICAL PROBLEMS IN GENERAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY To order this title, and for more information, click here Second Edition By Peter Devitt, MBBS, MS, FRACS, Associate Professor, University of Adelaide, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia Juliet Barker, MBBS, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Hematology, University of Minnesota; Physician, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA Jon Mitchell, Consultant in Hepatology, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK Christian Hamilton-Craig, Fellow in Echo Cardiography, Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia Description 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. 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. The aim of any undergraduate curriculum is to produce graduates who have the knowledge and skills required to enable them to become competent members of the medical fraternity. Understandably, upon qualification these attributes will be raw and untried, but we expect them to be able to show that they possess what it is required of doctors in their first few years after graduation. What is 'required' in a clinical situation is often not obvious to the student and hence the reason for this book. The book represents a departure from the traditional formula of systems and diseases, and an exhaustive review of each subject. Rather the authors have selected what they believe to be a number of important and, for the most part, relatively common medical and surgical scenarios and approached each from the perspective of the practicing clinician presented with a clinical problem. Whilst the book has been written primarily for undergraduates it describes clinical problems as they will be managed by recently qualified doctors. It is not the purpose of this book to challenge or compete with standard reference material, rather it represents an important adjunct to the learning process of clinical reasoning, rather than provide the knowledge that must accompany it, although an considerable amount of factual material is to be found within its pages. Problem solving is a vital component of medical education, and while it can be taught well at the bedside and in small group tutorials, there are few books that help with this style of learning. Audience Medical students, especially those working on problem-based courses. Interns/residents/junior doctors Nurse practitioners Contents Difficulties with postoperative fluid balance in a 65-year-old man A middle-aged man with postoperative fever Postoperative hypotension Postoperative confusion Swelling in the neck in a 58-year-old man A 26-year-old man with a swelling below the ear Swelling in the neck A young man with acute scrotal pain A scrotal swelling in a 19-year-old man A 46-year-old woman with a breast lump A skin lesion in a 73-year-old man A 27-year-old man with burns Dysphagia in a middle-aged woman Vomiting and collapse in an elderly woman A 77-year-old man with vomiting Weight loss in a middle-aged woman Abdominal pain in a young woman A man with acute upper abdominal pain A woman with acute upper abdominal pain A 67-year-old woman with acute lower abdominal pain A 49-year-old man with abdominal pain and vomiting Jaundice in an older woman A young man with profuse diarrhoea Rectal bleeding in a 65-year-old woman A 42-year-old man with haematuria A 70-year-old man with a painful hip Acute back pain in a 75-year-old man A 59-year-old man with calf pain Acute leg pain in a 73-year-old woman A 68-year-old woman with a leg ulcer A 38-year-old man involved in a car crash Lower limb trauma in a young man A 48-year-old man with chest pain Severe epigastric pain in a middle-aged man Breathlessness in a diabetic woman Breathlessness in a 37-year-old woman Collapse in a 63-year-old man A 62-year-old man with breathlessness and yellow sputum Persistent cough in a young woman Fever, cough and breathlessness in a middle-aged man Breathlessness and weight loss in a 58-year-old woman A 63-year-old woman with breathlessness on exertion Acute breathlessness in a 21-year-old woman Haematemesis in a 40-year-old man A young woman with jaundice A 34-year-old man with abdominal discomfort Postoperative oliguria in an elderly woman A 40-year-old man with lethargy and hypertension A 35-year-old woman with hypertension Intellectual deterioration in an elderly woman A young man with depressed conscious state and seizures A middle-aged man with sudden visual loss A young man in a coma A 31-year-old woman with vertigo Headache in a middle-aged woman Back pain in a 50-year-old woman A woman with a lump in the neck Severe dehydration in a young woman A 22-year-old woman with palpitations and anxiety A 21-year-old woman with fever, lethargy and painful joints A collapsed, breathless woman Management of a young man who is HIV positive Back and leg pain in a middle-aged man Acute respiratory failure in a 68-year-old man A young woman with lower abdominal pain A young woman with abnormal vaginal bleeding Index Bibliographic details Paperback, 432 pages, publication date: AUG-2003 ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07323-6 ISBN-10: 0-443-07323-6 Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE 049/435 Last update: 27 Sep 2008	Book contents Table of contents Reviews Submit your review Bookmark this page Recommend this publication Overview of all books