Main description:

MasterPass Series Covering both Medicine and Surgery this book is the essential revision companion for all medical students and a valuable source of knowledge for junior doctors at all stages of their training. It is useful both in the early preparatory phase of revision as well as for last minute cramming and for use on the wards. This book divides the medical and surgical curricula into over twenty key sections and concisely covers the relevant information for each including definitions aetiology key clinical features investigations and management. Examinations for undergraduate medical students and at postgraduate level can take a number of forms including Multiple Choice and Extended Matching Questions Single Best Answers Short Notes Vivas and OSCEs. The book provides the necessary information to tackle all these exam formats successfully as well as to manage each topic competently should it arise in clinical practice. Compact and user-friendly this book is the ideal revision tool. For more information on other titles in this series please click here

Contents:

Foreword v Preface viii About the Author ix Acknowledgements x Part One: The Synoptic View of the Consultation 1 Introduction 1 1 The Puzzle and the Picture: Introducing the Synoptic View 5 2 The Doctor 9 3 The Patient 13 4 The Illness 16 5 The Patient's Story of the Illness: Fractals 20 6 The Patient's Story of the Illness: Narrative 25 7 The Patient's Story of the Illness: Somatisation 29 8 The Doctor's Story of the Illness 34 9 The Doctor-Patient Relationship 39 10 The Three Golden Questions 48 11 Working with Children 57 12 The Social Context of the Doctor 61 13 The Social Context of the Illness 66 14 The Social Context of the Patient 72 15 The Authority of the Consultation 76 Part Two: Consultations That Go Wrong: Using the Synoptic View as a Diagnostic Aid 85 Introduction 85 16 Dysfunction: The Doctor 89 17 Dysfunction: The Patient 92 18 Dysfunction: The Illness 95 19 Dysfunction: The Patient's Story of the Illness 99 20 Dysfunction: The Doctor's Story of the Illness 102 21 Dysfunction: The Doctor-Patient Relationship 104 22 Dysfunction: The Social Context of the Doctor 107 23 Dysfunction: The Social Context of the Illness 110 24 Dysfunction: The Social Context of the Patient 114 Part Three: Personal Refl ections on Other Models of the Consultation 119 25 Models of the Consultation 121 References 150 Index 155