Medicine Morning Report: Beyond the Pearls by Dasgupta, Raj; Koolaee, R. Michelle;

Long description:

Practical, concise, and easy to read, Medicine Morning Report: Beyond the Pearls covers essential material you'll find on USMLE and shelf exams and sharpens your clinical decision-making skills. Using an in-depth case format, it prepares you to correctly analyze a clinical vignette in the style of a morning report conference, helping you formulate a clinically sound, evidence-based approach to realistic patient scenarios.

• Covers key content found on the USMLE, with pearls for the Step1, Step 2 and Step 3 exams - ideal for exam preparation and clinical rotations.
• Each case presents a high-yield topic in a morning report/grand rounds format, and includes must-know "pearls," an in-depth discussion of differentials and treatment, and assessment questions that support USMLE and shelf preparation.
• "Beyond the Pearls" tips and secrets (evidence based, with references) make this text unique.
• Key basic science concepts reinforce important information in a clinical context.
• Written and edited by experienced teachers of review courses and medical students. Each case has been reviewed by board certified attending/practicing physicians.
• Student Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience includes access -- on a variety of devices -- to the complete text, images, and references from the book.

Table of Contents:

1 A 63-Year-Old Female With Change in Mental Status and Slurred Speech

2 A 61-Year-Old Male With Constipation

3 A 37-Year-Old Female With a Palpable Breast Mass

4 A 65-Year-Old Male With Acute Chest Pain

5 A 31-Year-Old Male With Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Cough, and Shortness of Breath

6 A 54-Year-Old Male With Worsening Weakness

7 A 56-Year-Old Male With 3 Weeks of Fever

8 A 25-Year-Old Female With Polyuria and Polydipsia

9 A 22-Year-Old Female With Joint Pain

10 A 62-Year-Old Female With Epigastric Pain and Nausea

11 A 69-Year-Old Male With "Congestive Heart Failure"

12 A 68-Year-Old Male With Weakness and Fatigue

13 A 65-Year-Old Male With Dysphagia

14 A 60-Year-Old Male With Acute Headache and Fever

15 A 66-Year-Old Male With Progressive Dyspnea on Exertion

16 A 26-Year-Old Female With Joint Pain

17 A 57-Year-Old Male With Blurred Vision

18 A 52-Year-Old Male With Radiating Leg Pain

19 A 78-Year-Old Male With Palpitations and Lightheadedness

20 A 56-Year-Old Male With Acute Cough and Fever

21 A 34-Year-Old Female With Left Lower Extremity Edema

22 A 25-Year-Old Male With Seizures

23 A 58-Year-Old Female With Dyspnea on Exertion and Renal Failure

24 A 46-Year-Old Male Referred for Hyperglycemia

25 A 23-Year-Old Female With Dysuria

26 A 40-Year-Old Female With Headaches

27 A 35-Year-Old Male With Substernal Chest Pain

28 A 62-Year-Old Male With Dyspnea at Rest and Lower Extremity Edema

29 A 34-Year-Old Male With Chronic Bilateral Gluteal Pains

30 A 20-Year-Old Female With Polyuria and Polydipsia

31 A 76-Year-Old Female With Eye Pain and Decreased Vision

32 A 43-Year-Old Male With Left Leg Erythema and Pain

33 A 25-Year-Old Female With Excessive Daytime Sleepiness

34 A 31-Year-Old Female With a Systolic Heart Murmur

35 A 57-Year-Old Male With Shortness of Breath

36 A 68-Year-Old Male With Right Knee Pain

37 A 20-Year-Old Female With Chronic Fatigue

38 A 32-Year-Old Female With Bilateral Hand Numbness

39 A 22-Year-Old Male With Hematuria

40 A 54-Year-Old Male With Chronic Cough and Weight Loss

41 A 57-Year-Old Male With Exertional Chest Pain

42 A 45-Year-Old Female With Fatigue and Headache

43 A 55-Year-Old Male With Fever and Abdominal Pain

44 A 28-Year-Old Female With Difficult-to-Control Hypertension

45 A 35-Year-Old Female With Subacute Progressive Bilateral Lower Extremity Edema

46 A 40-Year-Old Female With Facial Rash and Persistent Cough

47 A 63-Year-Old Male With Acute PolyarticularArthritis

48 A 67-Year-Old Male With Syncope

49 A 63-Year-Old Male With a Unilateral Pleural Effusion

50 A 55-Year-Old Male With Hand Tremors

51 A 35-Year-Old Male With Fatigue and Rash

52 A 45-Year-Old Female With Nausea, Vomiting, and Abdominal Pain

53 A 57-Year-Old Female With Cavitary Lung Lesions

54 A 40-Year-Old Female With Weight Gain and Amenorrhea

55 A 58-Year-Old Male With Chest Pain

56 A 70-Year-Old Male With Iron Deficiency Anemia

57 A 56-Year-Old Male With Cough and Shortness of Breath

58 A 55-Year-Old Male With Diabetes on an Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitor

59 A 34-Year-Old Male With Generalized Weakness

60 A 65-Year-Old Male With Muscle Weakness

61 A 43-Year-Old Female With Fevers

62 A 54-Year-Old Male Who "Stops Breathing at Night"

Index