Overview
- Includes an in-depth analysis of common cases that are misdiagnosed or have potential to be misdiagnosed
- Serves as a guide for the general practitioner
- Contains misdiagnosis cases from a variety of areas of medicine
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About this book
One third of misdiagnosed medical cases result in serious injury or death. Moreover, 40,000-80,000 deaths occur each year in the United States alone because of misdiagnosis. This is a major clinical crisis that medical schools and hospitals have failed to adequately address. There is currently no book available that provides general clinicians with the knowledge to prevent such lethal errors in a variety of disciplines.
Composed of clinical cases, the book represents seventy chapters fashioned into sixteen modules and are organized by systems, such as allergy and immunology, cardiology, neurology and rheumatology, just to name a few. Each chapter is organized with a general introduction to the topic followed by the name of the specific disease. Next comes the actual clinical case presentation followed by the differential diagnosis. It then explains what was misdiagnosed in the specific case and why. A general discussion and plan of action is then described followed by a conclusion.
Uniquely incorporated in the book is a chapter dedicated to the legal perspectives of misdiagnosis followed by an editor’s perspective. The Misdiagnosis Casebook in Clinical Medicine is a valuable and much-needed resource for clinicians as well as practitioners in all areas of medicine.
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Table of contents (70 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Allergy and Immunology
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Cardiology
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Emergency Department
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hassaan Tohid, MBBS
California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences and PsychologyFairfield, CA USA
Larry G. Baratta MD, PhD
Dean of Student Affairs
Chair & Professor of Integrated Clinical Medicine
St. Martinus University Faculty of Medicine Willemstad, Curacao
Howard Maibach, MD
University of California
San Francisco, CA USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Misdiagnosis Casebook in Clinical Medicine
Book Subtitle: A Case-Based Guide
Editors: Hassaan Tohid, Larry G. Baratta, Howard Maibach
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28296-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28295-9Published: 31 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28296-6Published: 30 May 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 554
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Primary Care Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine