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With hospital medicine growing rapidly in both scale and complexity, the learning curve for students is steeper, while experienced physicians are often called upon to act as mentors and caregivers in areas outside their primary fields of expertise. Becoming a Consummate Clinician, an exciting new book in the series Hospital Medicine: Current Concepts, describes in practical terms how clinicians and students can think more critically and act more insightfully in this era of information expansion and time compression. Developed for hospital-based clinicians and physicians-in-training, the book provides a road map for navigating key challenges in real-life medical practice related to assessing, integrating, and presenting clinical information. Clearly formatted and easily accessible, the book:

  • Fully integrates and emphasizes error avoidance and reduction
  • Highlights uses and limitations of algorithmic and evidence-based medicine in medical decision-making
    Trade Review

    “The encouragement of all readers to rethink everything we assume to be true and to seek a deeper understanding of what we “know” is priceless . . . The quotes included throughout the book were both valuable and enjoyable.” (The Hospitalist, 2 November 2014)



    Table of Contents

    Preface ix

    Acknowledgments xi

    INTRODUCTION: SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN WARD WORLD 1

    PART 1 MEDICAL MUSTS AND MUST-NOTS: SIX ESSENTIALS OF WARD WORLD

    1 HOW (NOT) TO PRESENT A PATIENT HISTORY 13

    2 REEXAMINING THE PHYSICAL EXAM 37

    3 HOW (NOT) TO ORDER AND PRESENT LAB TESTS 67

    4 SEEING IS (ALMOST) BELIEVING: THE IMPORTANCE OF REVIEWING DATA 81

    5 "WORSTS FIRST": HOW TO FRAME A DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS 93

    6 CLINICAL QUERIES: ASKING THE 3½ KEY QUESTIONS 103

    PART 2 MEDICAL MASTERIES

    7 E = MC3: ERROR REDUCTION EQUALS MOTIVATION TIMES COMMUNICATION TO THE POWER OF 3 115

    8 EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE: WHAT AND WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE? 131

    9 CAUTION! DANGEROUS BIOMEDICAL SEMANTICS AT WORK 145

    10 SOME SECOND OPINIONS: OUTLIERS, HOOFBEATS, AND SUTTON’S (FLAWED) LAW 165

    11 A SIXFOLD PATH: FROM DATA TO KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTANDING 173

    12 WHAT IS DISEASE? WHAT IS HEALTH? 181

    Bibliography and Notes 195

    Index 203

Becoming a Consummate Clinician

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 28/09/2012
      ISBN13: 9781118011430, 978-1118011430
      ISBN10: 1118011430

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      With hospital medicine growing rapidly in both scale and complexity, the learning curve for students is steeper, while experienced physicians are often called upon to act as mentors and caregivers in areas outside their primary fields of expertise. Becoming a Consummate Clinician, an exciting new book in the series Hospital Medicine: Current Concepts, describes in practical terms how clinicians and students can think more critically and act more insightfully in this era of information expansion and time compression. Developed for hospital-based clinicians and physicians-in-training, the book provides a road map for navigating key challenges in real-life medical practice related to assessing, integrating, and presenting clinical information. Clearly formatted and easily accessible, the book:

      • Fully integrates and emphasizes error avoidance and reduction
      • Highlights uses and limitations of algorithmic and evidence-based medicine in medical decision-making
        Trade Review

        “The encouragement of all readers to rethink everything we assume to be true and to seek a deeper understanding of what we “know” is priceless . . . The quotes included throughout the book were both valuable and enjoyable.” (The Hospitalist, 2 November 2014)



        Table of Contents

        Preface ix

        Acknowledgments xi

        INTRODUCTION: SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN WARD WORLD 1

        PART 1 MEDICAL MUSTS AND MUST-NOTS: SIX ESSENTIALS OF WARD WORLD

        1 HOW (NOT) TO PRESENT A PATIENT HISTORY 13

        2 REEXAMINING THE PHYSICAL EXAM 37

        3 HOW (NOT) TO ORDER AND PRESENT LAB TESTS 67

        4 SEEING IS (ALMOST) BELIEVING: THE IMPORTANCE OF REVIEWING DATA 81

        5 "WORSTS FIRST": HOW TO FRAME A DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS 93

        6 CLINICAL QUERIES: ASKING THE 3½ KEY QUESTIONS 103

        PART 2 MEDICAL MASTERIES

        7 E = MC3: ERROR REDUCTION EQUALS MOTIVATION TIMES COMMUNICATION TO THE POWER OF 3 115

        8 EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE: WHAT AND WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE? 131

        9 CAUTION! DANGEROUS BIOMEDICAL SEMANTICS AT WORK 145

        10 SOME SECOND OPINIONS: OUTLIERS, HOOFBEATS, AND SUTTON’S (FLAWED) LAW 165

        11 A SIXFOLD PATH: FROM DATA TO KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTANDING 173

        12 WHAT IS DISEASE? WHAT IS HEALTH? 181

        Bibliography and Notes 195

        Index 203

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