tailieunhanh - Case Files Internal Medicine, THIRD EDITION

Mastering the cognitive knowledge within a field such as internal medicine is a formidable task. It is even more difficult to draw on that knowledge, procure and filter through the clinical and laboratory data, develop a differential diagnosis, and, finally, to make a rational treatment plan. To gain these skills, the student learns best at the bedside, guided and instructed by experienced teachers, and inspired toward self-directed, diligent reading. Clearly, there is no replacement for education at the bedside. Unfortunately, clinical situations usually do not encompass the breadth of the specialty. Perhaps the best alternative is a carefully crafted patient case designed to stimulate the clinical approach and the. | CASE FILES INTERNAL MEDICINE 60 high-yield medicine cases help students learn rather than memorize USMLE-format review questions and clinical pearls accompany each case Primer on how to approach clinical problems teaches students how to think like doctors Proven learning system improves shelf exam scores TOY PATLAN LANGE THIRD EDITION CASE FILES Internal Medicine Eugene C. Toy MD The John S. Dunn Senior Academic Chair and Program Director The Methodist Hospital Ob Gyn Residency Program Houston Texas Vice Chair of Academic Affairs Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology The Methodist Hospital Houston Texas Associate Clinical Professor and Clerkship Director Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Texas Medical School at Houston Houston Texas Associate Clinical Professor Weill Cornell College of Medicine John T. Patlan Jr. MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Department of General Internal Medicine MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto The McGraw-Hill Companies Copyright 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976 no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means or stored in a database or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN 978-0-07-161365-1 MHID 0-07-161365-X The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title ISBN 978-0-07-161364-4 MHID 0-07-161364-1. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name we use names in an editorial fashion only and to the benefit of the trademark owner with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special .