Macleod's Clinical Diagnosis, 2e

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Clinical Assessment Principles: The first section delves into multiple diagnostic methods, elucidates the key elements necessary for accurate patient assessment, provides a practical framework for a systematic workup, and outlines how assessment can be tailored to specific clinical contexts. Here is the table of contents of Macleod’s Clinical Diagnosis: Part 1: Clinical evaluation principles. For students and clinical professionals who are learning to better themselves in the field of their study. This book is the latest in its release and is a trademark of . Written by carefully selected global experts, practicing physicians, and educators in the various sub-disciplines of medicine and surgery. A must read for everyone.

The second core section of the book Assessment of common presenting problems contains a series of 'diagnostic guides' that lead the reader, step-by-step through the major presenting problems in medicine and surgery, explaining how to recognise red flag features, eliminate life-threatening conditons and generate a logical differential diagnosis. The second core section of the book Assessment of common presenting problems contains a series of ‘diagnostic guides’ that lead the reader, step-by-step through the major presenting problems in medicine and surgery, explaining how to recognize red flag features, eliminate life-threatening conditions and generate a logical differential diagnosis.

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Problem-Based Diagnostic Approach: It adopts a problem-based diagnostic approach that mirrors current and modern medical practice, ensuring its relevance in clinical settings. Fifty years since it was first published and now fully revised, Macleod’s remains the textbook of choice for medical students, junior doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners who understand that excellence in clinical examination is integral to good practice.

Updated text and images, to ensure the content is relevant to a diverse readership and patient population Dr Colin Robertson has been involved in human performance and sport science his entire professional career. He has worked in every aspect of Strength and Conditioning from rugby to wrestling to wheelchair basketball, and countless sports in between; at national and international levels of competition.For this Second Edition the text has been expanded with five new topics covering nausea and vomiting; vaginal bleeding; red eye; urinary incontinence; and weight loss. Part 1: The principles of clinical assessment: in addition to defining the scope and remit of the book this initial group of chapters invites readers to reconsider the overall aims of clinical assessment, the contribution that each element of the assessment can make to these aims and how the approach must be adapted to fit the clinical context. It also touches on diagnostic theory and explains some different approaches to diagnosis.