Problem Solving in Clinical Medicine: From Data to Diagnosis

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Summary: A MUST READ for medical students
Review: One of the most useful books I ever read in medical school! This is money and time well spent for a second, third, or fourth year medical student who wishes to vastly improve his clinical thinking skills! This book presents numerous clinical vignettes based on chief complaint and presentation. The vignettes include all of the most common problems you will encounter in a medicine ward (very very few zebras, although he discusses those in the differential diagnoses).

It is marvelously written and organized. You will become much more comfortable with considering differential diagnoses and pursuing workup and management of medicine inpatients.

I ended up pursuing otolaryngology, but I am definitely a better clinician for having read this book (and studied my arse off in med school). I looked like a superstar med student on my internal medicine rotation, largely because I had read this book. It should be required reading for every introductory clinical medicine course!!!

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Summary: Great bread and butter epidemiology/pathophysiology
Review: Third edition by author of proven merit in solving problems by context. Uses a think-along-with-me techinique which is annoying during rounds but very profitable in print. A must read, great review, regardless of specialty.