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1919. This is a text on using the eye as a diagnostic tool, with the belief that it reveals abnormal conditions and changes in every part and organ of the body. This science enables the diagnostician to ascertain, from the appearance of the iris, many of the patient_s inherited or acquired tendencies toward health and toward disease, his condition in general, and the state of various organ_s in particular. Reading Nature_s records in the eye, he can predict many of the healing crises through which the patient will have to pass on the road to health. The author also contends that the diagnosis from the iris of the eye positively confirms Hahnemann_s theory that acute diseases have a constitutional background of hereditary or acquired disease taints or systemic encumbrances.

Discusses the increasing use of scanning and diagnostic tools such as CAT, PET, and MRI to uncover the source and possible treatment of various medical problems.

"Practical electrocardiography" is meant for undergraduate students and practitioners to apprise them about basics of ECG. The book covers all the practical aspects of electrocardiography with concise subject matter. The book is written in simple and understandable language. The reader will not get bored while reading it. The subject is demonstrated with excellent computerized diagrams and illustrations which are self-explanatory. After reading the book, the reader will feel confident to interpret the ECG. Undergraduate students learn the ECG from their seniors during indoor posting. This book being small, handy can be taken along with during there indoor posting or practical classes. This book is well-suited to up MCQ on ECG.

"Essentials of Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology" is a unique, high-compression cardiology quick reference for the wards and the clinic! It provides in-a-nutshell information on the diagnosis and treatment of 180 cardiac diseases and disorders. It features one disease per page with bulleted key points for easy access. It covers ambulatory and inpatient medicine. It includes ischemic heart disease, hypertension, and other common conditions. It features handy tabs for quick reference. It is a must for medical students, residents, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, and general and family practitioners. It is a unique cardiology quick reference! It is a one-of-a-kind guide to cardiology at a glance. It includes an easy-scan, bulleted lists of diagnostics, treatments, and other basics. It features a pearl per page - a memorable pearl for each disease. It also features select references - one general review for each disorder.

WHO in collaboration with the International Commission for Radiologic Education (ICRE) of the International Society of Radiology (ISR) and the other members of the Global Steering Group for Education and Training in Diagnostic Imaging is creating a series of "Manuals of Diagnostic Imaging." The full series of manuals will primarily cover the examination techniques and interpretation of conventional diagnostic X-ray procedures. These manuals will replace and update the WHO Manual of Radiographic Interpretation for General Practitioners and the WHO Manual of Radiographic Technique.The present volume in this series, the manual Radiographic Anatomy and Interpretation of the Musculoskeletal System, provides an exhaustive description of radiographic normal anatomy as well as pathologic changes most frequently seen in musculoskeletal system including trauma, infections in bone and joints, metabolic, endocrine, and toxic disorders, tumours, congenital and developmental disorders. Backed by high-quality reproduction of radiographs, this manual will prove essential reading to general practitioners, medical specialists, radiographers and radiologists in any medical settings, although focusing specifically on needs in small and mid-size hospitals.

What should you say if your patient is struggling with her sexuality? How do you respond to your married patient when he discloses to you his same-sex sexual history? To which medical studies do you turn when you need to know more about club drugs? As physicians and health professionals, you want to provide the best possible care for your patients, but medical schools and other health care teaching institutions do not generally provide comprehensive information on how to approach caring for sexual-minority patients. Allan D. Peterkin and Cathy Risdon have written Caring for Lesbian and Gay People - the first medical guide to offer busy clinicians practical, accessible, and evidence-based information to help in the care of gay and lesbian patients. The authors begin with an overview of the history of medical relations with lesbian and gay patients, providing advice and guidelines for strengthening the doctor-patient relationship and raising the standard of care for all patients. The book then delves into a range of specific clinical issues, such as risk profiles for particular illnesses, screening for and managing sexually transmitted infections, and HIV in the primary care setting. Subsequent chapters cover such wide-ranging topics as mental health care and the effect of homophobia on relationships, same-sex parenting, the role that body image plays in health, and unique populations, such as lesbian and gay ethno-racial minorities, the transgendered, rural lesbian and gay people, and elders. Each chapter includes practical tips (advice on inclusive language, for example) and summaries, along with references, of written and online resources. Comprehensive and detailed, this work covers physical and mental health across the life cycle, with equal emphasis on women's and men's health. Based on more than twenty years of patient care and contributions to medical education and community development, this indispensable resource will greatly heighten the quality of care clinicians, health care practitioners, and educators can provide to their patients, and will in turn provide patients and consumers with the means to take an active role in their own health care.

Features Include:
The normal function and developmental biology of organ systems

* Symptom-based diagnostic approaches for common disorders

* Effective, easy-to-use algorithms throughout to guide diagnoses

* The latest emergency and critical care management guidelines

* A family-centered approach to caring for terminally ill children and their families

* How to effectively care for children with chronic disabilities

* Expanded coverage of genetics

* What you should know about managing neonatal disorders

* New advances in orthopedics and sports medicine

* A full-color insert of childhood skin conditions, and much more

Including:

* New sections, new chapters inform on the hottest topics in the field!

* Emergency and critical care - easy-to-use section guides your management of the acutely ill infant and child

* Contemporary diagnostic techniques - provides simple, clear explanations of the new generation of laboratory tests that are more frequently used to guide clinical diagnosis

* Care of the terminally ill child - presents a family-centered approach for care near the end of life

* Rehabilitative medicine - offers guidance on caring for the increasing numbers of children with chronic disabilities

Delivers MORE of what you really need to know!

* MORE on genetics, with separate chapters focused on metabolic disorders and dysmorphology

* MORE on rheumatic disease in children and adolescents, including the critical evaluation of musculoskeletal pain and pain syndromes

* MORE on managing neonatal disorders

* MORE algorithmic approaches to common pediatric symptoms, with guidelines for initial management

* MORE information on support groups and other resources - websites and email addresses provided throughout

PLUS: Expanded coverage in rapidly advancing areas of pediatric medicine!

* Neonatology

* Immunology and allergy

* Infectious diseases

* Orthopedics, including sports medicine

* Endocrinology

This unique text fills the gap between shorter texts, containing little explanatory material, and the compendia, for those advanced in the field of neurological disorders. It is written both for novices and for physicians who require an update on the subject. To understand the symptoms and signs requires a sound knowledge of the gross anatomy of the central nervous system and supporting tissues. This book achieves this using the author's own detailed diagrams, backed up with concise and practical guidance on diagnosis and treatment, as well as relevant case studies.The long-awaited second edition of this highly popular guide reflects such recent advances as computed tomography and MRI. The tutorial approach presents readers with an authoritative view of the fundamentals of practical neurology.

Spend less time interpreting and analyzing your patient s urinalysis test results. This quick reference guide is the perfect guide to have on your desk when reviewing your urine dipstick and functional urinalysis results. This is your complete quick reference for interpreting, analyzing, and finding the underlying cause of your patients functional complaints using Functional Urinalysis and the standard Urine Dipstick Analysis. Whether you are already doing Functional Urinalysis in your practice or plan to do so soon, you will refer to this guide over and over again. The Urinalysis Quick Reference Guide Includes the Following: - A Quick Reference Guide to the clinical abnormalities found on the standard urinalysis dipstick. - Dr. Weatherby s urinalysis tracking form to quickly chart your patient s results. - A Quick Reference Guide to Dr. Weatherby s In-Office Lab Testing and Functional Urinalysis diagnostic system. - A full guide to urine microscopy. Quickly get the information you need on cells, crystals and casts. This bestselling Quick Reference Guide has shown hundreds of doctors the faster, surer way to get more from their Functional Urinalysis and Urine Dipstick Analysis Results.

How would you like to increase your clinic income by running an in-office lab in your practice? This comprehensive reference manual will show you how to set up a systemized method of in-office lab testing that allows you to assess the self-regulatory capacities of the body, determine whether the body is in a state of balance or not, identify the area of imbalance, and easily re-check to see how the body responds to treatment. All of this without the need for costly instruments or outsourced labs. This book will expand your diagnostic efficiency and increase your income at the same time This book includes: -In depth information on how to perform over 20 in-offi ce tests that will uncover the biochemical and metabolic imbalances in your patients. -An extensive section on how to identify acid-alkaline imbalances in your patients. -A simple test to differentiate adrenal stress from adrenal fatigue. -In-office forms and handouts for immediate use in your office. -A full section of patterns that exist between multiple tests - A resource section with details of where to purchase all of the in-office tests mentioned in this reference manual. This best selling reference manual has shown hundreds of Doctors how to increase their diagnostic efficiency and clinic income by adding in-office lab testing to their diagnostic offerings. What are you waiting for?

This is the most accessible and time-efficient source of clinical psychiatric information you can find. It is the perfect reference for quickly answering day-to-day questions on psychiatric diseases and disorders in both adults and children. It is indispensable for students, residents, and psychiatrists, as well as general and family practitioners and pediatricians. Inside it includes page after page of authoritative, practical, biopsychosocially-based help with evaluation, treatment, and management of all common psychiatric syndromes and conditions.Easy-to-use, yet comprehensive, "Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Psychiatry" features: a highly useful separate section devoted to psychiatric disorders occurring in infancy, childhood, and adolescence; relevant etiology, phenomenology, pathophysiology, and drug information; up-to-date information on eating disorders, sleep disturbances, impulse-control problems, sexual dysfunctions, anxiety and depression disorders, and all other commonly presented conditions; interviewing techniques and approaches suitable for adults, children, adolescents, parents, and families; evaluation, testing, and decision-making tools and criteria, including DSM-IV criteria; information on psychiatry and the law, psychological testing, emergency psychiatry, evaluating infants, and more; and, coverage of developmental psychology, neuropsychopharmacology, psychiatric genetics, psychoanalysis, and other related areas.

A convenient, up-to-date, time-saving reference for the diagnosis, psychopharmacologic treatment, and psychotherapeutic management of the full range of psychiatric disorders. Includes a highly useful separate section devoted to psychiatric disorders occurring in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Extensive Index and detailed Table of Contents afford easy access to material.

Neurogenetics is intended for any physician or scientist who manages patients with inherited diseases of the nervous system. It presents the clinical phenotypes of the most commonly inherited neurologic diseases, and their molecular pathogenesis, followed by a description of the appropriate
tests to be used in diagnosis. Two introductory chapters familiarize the nongeneticist with medical genetic terminology and molecular genetic techniques useful in the analysis of genetic disease and genetic testing. Subsequent chapters examine major neurologic disorders caused by single defects,
as well as disease phenotypes such as Alzheimer disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis which may be caused by defects in single genes, but may also be seen as sporadic diseases. The genetic components of other common neurologic disorders, such as epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, migraine, and stroke
are all covered in detail. The final chapter discusses genetic counseling of symptomatic and pre-symptomatic individuals. Throughout, chapters discuss genotype/phenotype correlations and, where appropriate, animal models for inherited human neurologic diseases. Several chapters are devoted to
recently discovered diseases caused by unstable DNA repeats. Special emphasis is placed on conveying how DNA testing can be applied to the daily practice of geneticists and neurologists.

Organized to serve as a resource for those just beginning to learn EEG as well as those who are already experienced, it contains concise presentations of the fundamentals of EEG technology and interpretation as well as an up-to-date review of the latest digital EEG technology and EEG clinical correlations. Unlike other EEG textbooks, the second half of this book is uniquely organized according to EEG findings rather than individual disorders. This is the best practical approach to learning interpretation because it mirrors the actual practice of EEG, the EEGer is confronted by EEG patterns, not diagnoses. All other textbooks organize findings according to clinical disorder. The book contains sufficient information to serve as a laboratory manual. The appendices contain the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society guidelines for EEG and the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology glossary. Each chapter begins with a summary of major concepts. An overview of EEG can be quickly obtained by those beginning the study of EEG by simply reading the introductory summaries of all chapters before reading the contents of the chapters.

With its complex anatomy and diversity of landmarks, the head and neck region poses a special challenge to clinical and radiologic diagnosis. Sound therapeutic decision making requires the use of modern imaging procedures to define the precise location and extent of pathologic processes and delineate the involvement of adjacent structures. Other important information is derived from the vascularity of a lesion, its internal structure, its homogeneity, and the nature of its margins. All these criteria will suggest a radiologic differential diagnosis that forms the basis for an accurate interpretation of the findings. This book offers a systematic approach to differential diagnosis based on the experience gained in more than 4000 comparative clinical and radiologic examinations. Each chapter includes images that illustrate the differentiating criteria that are applied to various types of pathology. Besides demonstrating the key elements of an accurate differential diagnosis, the images show how radiologic tissue characterization is not possible for all lesions, and how imaging can direct the biopsy procedures which may be needed to establish a diagnosis.

Students starting on the wards are often bewildered at their role and unable to make the most of the learning opportunities presented to them. The hardest thing is to adapt to a new way of learning, where books and lectures take a back seat and the subjects for study are the patients whose beds line the wards. Rather than being asked to go to the library and write an essay on the physiology of the kidneys, you are told to go and clerk the patient in bed 3 with acute renal failure. The problem lies in knowing where on earth to begin.
Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion is written for inexperienced clinical students, and helps them to use their patients to learn medicine. It aims to transform students who know a bit about the medical sciences into young doctors who can draw knowledge and experience together to diagnose and treat real patients.
At heart, it is a workbook that provides students with a framework for approaching patients with a range of common conditions. It is a 'friend over the shoulder' - guiding students through interviewing and examining a patient, and then evaluating the patient's current condition and their future management. A list of questions then helps students explore the topic in more detail - sending them back to their textbooks to read about what they have seen and understand the science underlying it.
It is also a self-directed learning portfolio, helping students to assess their progress by seeing where they are lacking clinical exposure, and by recording key cases they have seen to function as a revision aid.
Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion falls into three main sections.
The introduction explains briefly how to use the book to make the most of time spent on the wards - how to interview and examine patients, how to use the book in recording findings, and then how to present patients to doctors. It emphasises the importance of anonymising patient information and ensuring patient consent before interviewing and examining them.
The section on presentations covers over 30 undiagnosed presenting complaints such as 'chest pain' or 'acute confusion', suitable for use in A+E or in outpatient. Proformas for each presentation take students through the dynamic process of diagnosis and initial management.
The largest section, conditions, covers around 100 common medical and surgical problems, grouped according to speciality. Each chapter (for instance 'cardiology') begins with an introductory section offering basic approaches to the symptoms, signs and investigations encountered in that specialty - for instance, how to recognise common murmurs or a simple guide to reading an ECG. The subsequent clerking proformas are similar to those for the clinical 'presentations', allowing students to interview and examine ward patients who already have an established diagnosis, reviewing their investigation results, and then evaluating the severity, aetiology and management of the condition.
The book aims to:
DT Transform patients into useful learning resources: helping students to use patients to develop skills and build knowledge.
DT Be a 'near patient resource': something to be carried onto the ward and used when seeing patients.
DT Enable students to be pro-active: Lots of time can be wasted as a medical student waiting for doctors to be free to teach you. This allows even very junior students to get on with clerking and evaluating patients.
DT Build student confidence: Presenting patients you have clerked to senior doctors can be daunting. With this book students can do so more confidently knowing that they have at least covered all the more important points.
DT Train students to think clinically: So much of medical education involves teaching a mindset - actively resuscitating a patient whilst also trying to diagnose them, or weighing the relative importance of various pieces of information. Other books present information - this book teaches students to use it.
A completely new concept, with a unique focus on the learning needs of inexperienced students, Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion is the one friend you won't want to be without as you begin your journey onto the wards.
Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre to accompany Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion features:
DT Dynamic, annotated figures - enlarged, fully annotated copies of key images from the book, including ECGs and X-rays.
DT PDFs of the proformas in the book, avalible to download

Revised and expanded, this companion to tropical diagnosis retains its original purpose: a full description of approaches, techniques of examination, and diagnostic steps. The author is Professor of Medicine at the University of Ibadan. Practical hints are given for both the experienced and not so experienced. There are also sections on the psychiatric patient, sick children (including nutritional assessment) and basic laboratory techniques of the clinician.

This text provides students and practitioners with the essential diagnostic information for clinical problems as well as a system for differentiation of diseases that have similar signs, symptoms, and radiographic appearance. Pathogenesis, clinical, radiographic, laboratory, and histopathological features are presented with discussion developed especially to highlight distinguishing features and helpful hints in generating a differential diagnosis for each lesion.