Helping Hands

This brand-new textbook introduces medical students, junior doctors, medical educators and allied health professionals to the vital skills of diagnostic strategy and clinical reasoning, both essential components of becoming an effective clinician.

"This is a helpful guide on evidence-based clinical reasoning in early patient
contact for medical students. It is a first edition book published in the
United Kingdom.

Eleven chapters present discussions on clinical reasoning, diagnostic strategy,
the history and examination, spot diagnosis and pattern recognition, red and
yellow flags, restricted rule-outs, probabilistic reasoning, test of time, test
of treatment, and various case studies. Full-color photographs are well
presented. The case study chapters impart a classical Socratic method of
teaching with questions that lead readers to diagnoses through various concepts
(e.g., red and yellow flags). There are some references included, but this is
appropriate as the book's objective is to teach students how to approach
patients rather than present a study of specific conditions.

As an introductory text for medical students early on their journey into
medicine, this is a practical text. "

Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Caroline Rodgers is a GP Trainee, Cambridge VTS, Health Education East of England, Cambridgeshire, UK Richard Harrington is Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Nuffield Dept Primary Care Health Sciences and Associate Director, Graduate-entry Medicine, University of Oxford and a GP Partner, The Rycote Practice, Thame, Oxfordshire, UK