Customer Reviews
Essential for med school revision - By: Clair Melville, 10 Feb 2007 
I bought this book a week ago & my confidence in diagnosis has increased ten fold. Not only can you pick the symptom you think is most relavent & look up what could be causing it, you also get a list of conditions with associated features, & how the condition is confirmed.
In real terms when on for example A&E, you get a patient with difuse hair loss (I had no idea where to start on this one) & you get given options of cytotoxic drugs , iron deficiency, sever illness, hypogonadism & recent pregnancy. You would then see what the symptoms of each are, & how you would confirm each.
It made the situation of coming away from a patient totallly confused much easier. I am also better at coming up with differentials now.
Excellent book - By: , 22 Mar 2006 This book is one of the most comprehensive I have read on clinical diagnosis & provides a checklist of discriminating criteria for many of the symptoms & signs encountered in clinical practice. My only criticism of this book, from the point of view of a finals student, is that it doesn't specificallly list investigations that would be required when a patient has a list of 2 or 3 possible differentials after the history/examination, which are often asked in examinations. In this regard, "Differential Diagnosis" is a useful book to read alongside this one.
