Becoming a Consummate Clinician (eBook)
224 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-38071-0 (ISBN)
* Fully integrates and emphasizes error avoidance andreduction
* Highlights uses and limitations of algorithmic andevidence-based medicine in medical decision-making
* Details effective strategies for looking and"re-looking" at biomedical data
* Explains essential do's and don'ts ofmedicalpractice, from patient history and exam to differentialdiagnoses
* Describes best practices and pitfalls of gathering, processing,and communicating medical information
* Presents strategies for attending physicians to develop thecritical thinking skills of their trainees
Featuring real-world clinical examples, this concise,down-to-earth text is written to help both practitioners andstudents improve their overall clinical performance, and learn tocommunicate effectively with members of the caregiving team.
Ary L. Goldberger, MD, is Director of the Rey Laboratory and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He is Program Director of the Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals, which is funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. He is also a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard. Zachary D. Goldberger, MD, MS,is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington Medical School, in Seattle, WA. He received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and then completed his Internal Medicine training at the University of Washington. He completed a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at the University of Michigan, where he was a 2010-2012 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
INTRODUCTION: SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN WARD WORLD 1
PART 1 MEDICAL MUSTS AND MUST-NOTS: SIX ESSENTIALS OF WARDWORLD
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 DATA81
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 COMMUNICATIONTO 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 UNDERSTANDING173
12 WHAT IS DISEASE? WHAT IS HEALTH? 181
Bibliography and Notes 195
Index 203
"The encouragement of all readers to rethink everything weassume to be true and to seek a deeper understanding of what we"know" is priceless . . . The quotes includedthroughout the book were both valuable and enjoyable." (The Hospitalist, 2 November 2014)
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.7.2012 |
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Reihe/Serie | Hospital Medicine - Current Concepts |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin |
Schlagworte | Allgemeine u. Innere Medizin • Cardiovascular Disease • Emergency Medicine & Trauma • General & Internal Medicine • Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankung • Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen • Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankung • Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen • Klinische Medizin • Krankenhausarzt • Medical Science • Medizin • Notfallmedizin u. Traumatologie |
ISBN-10 | 1-118-38071-1 / 1118380711 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-38071-0 / 9781118380710 |
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