Macleod’s Clinical Diagnosis demonstrates how to apply the core clinical skills learned from the companion textbook Macleod’s Clinical Examination to maximum advantage. Charting the course from routine work-up to diagnosis, this book presents a modern and realistic approach to clinical assessment and explains how to integrate information obtained from the history, examination, bedside tests and specialised investigations.
- The first section Principles of clinical assessment examines different approaches to diagnosis, reviews the fundamental elements necessary for accurate patient assessment, provides a helpful template for a ‘routine workup’ and describes how to adapt the assessment to fit the clinical context.
- The second core section of the book Assessment of common presenting problems contains a series of ‘diagnostic guides’ that lead the reader, step-by-step through the major presenting problems in medicine and surgery, explaining how to recognise red flag features, eliminate life-threatening conditons and generate a logical differential diagnosis.
This book has been praised as an invaluable resource for senior medical students and junior doctors as they attempt to make the difficult transition from mastering basic clinical skills to assessing patients in the real world of clinical medicine.
Key Features
- A unique book allowing a reader to apply the skills of clinical examination in the formulation of a differential diagnosis and placing a patient’s symptoms in context.
- Takes a problem-based approach to diagnostic reasoning, reflecting both modern medical and current educational practices.
- Builds on the clinical skills outlined in the companion Macleod’s Clinical Examination textbook.
New Features
For this Second Edition the text has been expanded with five new topics covering nausea and vomiting; vaginal bleeding; red eye; urinary incontinence; and weight loss.
Part 1 Principles of clinical assessment
What’s in a diagnosis?
Assessing patients: a practical guide
The diagnostic process
Part 2 Assessment of common presenting problems
Abdominal pain
Breast lump
Chest pain
Coma and altered consciousness
Confusion: delirium and dementia
Diarrhoea
Dizziness
Dysphagia
Dyspnoea
Fatigue
Fever
GI haemorrhage haemorrhage: haematemesis and rectal bleeding
Haematuria
Haemoptysis
Headache
Jaundice
Joint swelling
Leg swelling
Limb weakness
Low back pain
Mobility problems: falls and immobility
Nausea and vomiting
Palpitation
Rash: acute generalised skin eruption
Red eye
Scrotal swelling
Shock
Transient loss of consciousness: syncope and seizures
Urinary incontinence
Vaginal bleeding
Weight loss
- Medical students
- Junior doctors in training
Excellent resource to accompany physical examination by Bates, with many students preferring this as a learning tool
Core text for several modules
this is a useful book
Level 5 and 6
A good book to support students undertaking pathophysiology, diagnostics and decision making. A recommended purchase.
An excellent look at many of the intricacies of the diagnostic method. Regularly referred to during my teaching and recommended for the students.
Used extensively for my level 7 teachings. An excellent text that I highly recommend.
Really sensibly laid out book! Will recommend
Very much recommended as a core source for the undergraduate studying adult nursing.
This is a well laid out, structured text to support students learning to diagnose.
I have found it supports some of our trainee ACP's to think in a more systematic way about the patients and conditions they are presented with.
Excellent, cant fault this series
A very good book for those working in clinical practice
This book supplements the other Macleod's titles. A good resource
Useful book and will help students in their clinical/diagnostic reasoning
Concise outline of what direction to guide clinical decision-making. The sooner medical students learn about this, the better-prepared they will be for The Job.
This book is fantastic. Would highly recommend.
Although more hospital./doctor based this will be recommended to out paramedic students, it is particularly useful for reference to community based practice.