Main description:

This new edition gives the customer a unique set of tools to enhance their clinical skills. Each chapter starts with a presenting complaint from a patient allowing the reader to practise history taking with real-life scenarios. At the end of each case study there are sections covering differential diagnosis and investigations for each presenting complaint. Fourteen case scenarios give realistic practise of history taking. Asking difficult questions brings together questions scattered throughout the book that students find most difficult.

Contents:

Introduction and How to use this book;Abbreviations;the structural basis of history taking;how to present this history;abdominal masses and distension;acute abdominal pain;alcohol-related problems;ano-rectal pain;back pain;breast lump;change in bowel habit;chest pain;collapse, syncope and blackouts; confusion;constipation;cough;depressin and anxiety;diabetes;diarrhoea;dizziness and vertigo;double vision(diplopia;dyspepsia and indigestion;dysphagia;dysuria;earach(otalgia;facial pain;faecal incontinence;fallsand gait abnormalities;fatigue and lethargy;haematuria;haemoptysis;headaches;hearing loss;hoarseness and voice disorders;jaundice;joint disorders (mono/polyarthritis);leg pain;leg ulcers;lower gastrointestinal bleeding;lumps(general);lymphadenopathy;multiply injured patient;neck lumps;nipple discharge;overdose;palpitations;pruritus;pyrexia of unknown origin and fever;rashes;redeye;scrotal pain and swellings;shortness of breath;swollen legs;tinnitus;tremor and movement disorders;upper gastrointestinal bleeding;vaginal bleeding;visual loss (acute/chronic);vomiting;weight loss;ASKING DIFFICULT QUESTIONS;CASE SCENARIOS;index.