Learning Clinical Reasoning

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Summary: You can't find a better one !
Review: it's a great book, it has enhaced my understanding, not just of clinical reasoning but as well my understanding of my way of thinking, my understanding of life in general & other peoples way of thinking

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Summary: a must read for those who want to become expert clinicians
Review: This book has profoundly influenced my medical training. I have not encountered any other book that attempts to dissect the thought processes of an expert clinician in such a cogent, easy to read format. The first half of the book consists of didactics and background on concepts such as Bayes' theorem, while the second half consists of clinical cases, discussed in similar fashion to the clinical problem solving cases seen in the New England Journal of Medicine. These cases are discussed by a variety of clinicians, from residents to experienced clinicians, with a subsequent review by the authors of the mistakes or strengths of each discussant's diagnostic process.
After reading this book, one can have a sense for what are the strong and weak heuristics used by clinicians in diagnosing a patient.
I feel that every medical school should implement this type of book in its curriculum - as physicians we are almost never given any instruction on how to think like an expert clinician, other than watching by example. This book gives a formal instruction on the matter.

Rating:
Summary: a must read for those who want to become expert clinicians
Review: This book has profoundly influenced my medical training. I have not encountered any other book that attempts to dissect the thought processes of an expert clinician in such a cogent, easy to read format. The first half of the book consists of didactics and background on concepts such as Bayes' theorem, while the second half consists of clinical cases, discussed in similar fashion to the clinical problem solving cases seen in the New England Journal of Medicine. These cases are discussed by a variety of clinicians, from residents to experienced clinicians, with a subsequent review by the authors of the mistakes or strengths of each discussant's diagnostic process.
After reading this book, one can have a sense for what are the strong and weak heuristics used by clinicians in diagnosing a patient.
I feel that every medical school should implement this type of book in its curriculum - as physicians we are almost never given any instruction on how to think like an expert clinician, other than watching by example. This book gives a formal instruction on the matter.