Clinical Diagnosis: A Symptom-Based Approach: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Common Clinical Presentations, Building Differentials, and Reaching the Diagnosis (Clinical Medicine Essentials)
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
- Softcover
- New
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
AbeBooks seller since October 27, 2023
Condition: New
£ 90.30
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Print on Demand.
Seller Inventory # I-9798165710957
- Title
- Clinical Diagnosis: A Symptom-Based Approach: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Common Clinical Presentations, Building Differentials, and Reaching the Diagnosis (Clinical Medicine Essentials)
- Author
- Kumari, Radhika
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798165710957
- Series
- Book 4 of 4: Clinical Medicine Essentials
Clinical diagnosis begins with a symptom, a sign, a time course, and a set of clues. The challenge is turning those clues into a focused differential diagnosis and deciding what to do next.
Clinical Diagnosis: A Symptom-Based Approach is a practical guide designed to help medical students develop a structured approach to common clinical presentations. Rather than organizing the discussion only around individual diseases, the book approaches diagnosis from the symptoms and problems that patients actually present with.
The book emphasizes clinical reasoning, problem representation, differential diagnosis, investigation strategy, red flags, diagnostic uncertainty, and reassessment.
Inside, readers will explore approaches to:
• Chest pain and shortness of breath
• Palpitations, syncope, and dizziness
• Cough and hemoptysis
• Fever and fever with rash
• Headache and neurologic symptoms
• Abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea
• Gastrointestinal bleeding and dysphagia
• Jaundice and abnormal liver tests
• Edema and hematuria
• Acute kidney injury and urinary symptoms
• Anemia, thrombocytopenia, and abnormal bleeding
• Joint pain, back pain, and leg swelling
• Weight loss and unexplained symptoms
• Thyroid, glucose, and electrolyte abnormalities
• Pelvic pain and abnormal uterine bleeding
• Pediatric fever and abdominal pain
• Eye redness and pain
• Abnormal laboratory and imaging findings
• Diagnostic errors and clinical reassessment
Each chapter encourages the reader to ask practical questions: What is the syndrome? What is the tempo? What is the most dangerous diagnosis to exclude? Which findings change probability? What investigation will actually change the decision?
The goal is not simply to memorize another list of diseases. It is to develop a repeatable clinical reasoning process that can be applied to unfamiliar patients, examinations, OSCEs, ward presentations, and clinical discussions.
Suitable for medical students and other healthcare learners seeking a practical framework for symptom-based clinical diagnosis.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
California Books
Miami, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since October 27, 2023
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 3 to 7 business days | 2 to 5 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 2.27 | £ 12.85 |
Payment methods
Store description
We have 20 years experience selling books worldwide! Friendly customer support. Your satisfaction guaranteed!
Specialty
All authorized categoriesSeller's business information
Miramar International Services LLC
FL, U.S.A.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to California Books, Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A., without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.