Monday, April 21, 2008

Book of the Month April 2008


Sound Diagnosis a harmonized approach to medicine - Sound Diagnosis to the rescue - a little prompt at the bedside, when you need sound guidance to see through a hazy clinical picture and make sense of a problem in the most lucid and confident way.
How will you benefit from this diagnosticum?
As your bedside companion it will:
Shed bright light on unclarified diagnostic pictures
Encourage use of a systematic method of diagnosis
Structure and simplify diagnosis
Help you define a problem
Make you notice and respond to diagnostic key pointers
Direct your energies to the core of the problem
Give your knowledge an opportunity to surface
Make you more aware and open to reading signs of disease
Serve as a ward-round guide
Keep you fresh and motivated with each case
Tie up the loose ends, enabling you to complete a diagnosis
"I came upon the drawings of Gerard Hoffnung in 2002 whilst browsing in the bookshop of the Royal Festival Hall in London. I am delighted to combine the strengths of artist and physician to appreciate the music in medicine and to help you hear the "symphony" when a problem comes to resolution. Suddenly it all comes together to crescendo, just before the diagnosis is made, into a naturally harmonized and realistic diagnosis" Maria Ribeiro, in the Preface
Source: Sound Diagnosis a harmonized approach to medicine /Maria Ribeiro