Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis

• The essential guide to help the reader move from a presenting problem through to confident diagnosis
• Provides practical help when dealing with problems outside your field of expertise, and with unforeseen situations
• Describes the reasoning processes used to arrive at diagnosis and how to explain a rationale to colleagues, patients, and relatives
• Aids in developing essential skills for all medical professionals

New to this edition

• Includes vital information on initial and longer-term treatments after diagnosis
• Provides rarer diagnoses alongside common presenting problems
• Additional images now included to aid understanding

Readership: Medical students, trainee doctors, general practitioners. Additional readership would include hospital specialists, clinical teachers, researchers, statisticians, public health doctors and others managing health care organizations, and all professions allied to medicine e.g. nurses, pharmacists, etc.