Through Hassaan’s To-Hood, Larry G. Baratta, and Howard Maibach.

One third of misdiagnosed medical cases lead to serious injury or death. Additionally, approximately 40,000-80,000 people annually perish in the U.S. alone due to misdiagnoses. This is a significant clinical crisis that hospitals and medical schools have failed to address adequately. No current book exists that provides doctors with the knowledge necessary to avoid these deadly mistakes in multiple disciplines.

Composed of clinical cases, the book’s volume represents 70 chapters that are organized by systems, such as allergy and immunology, cardiology, neurology and rheumatology, among other things. Each chapter is dedicated to a particular topic in the disease’s name followed by a general description of the disease. Next, the actual clinical case is presented followed by a differential diagnosis. It then describes what was misdiagnosed in the specific instance and why. A general discussion and a proposed plan are then described followed by a conclusion.

Unique to the book is a chapter on the legal aspects of misdiagnoses followed by an editor’s perspective. The Casebook on Misdiagnoses in Clinical Medicine is bothvaluable and essential for doctors as well as other healthcare professionals.

Purchaser ‏: ‎ Springer; 1st ed. of 2023 (May 31, 2023)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

eBook: digital version

ISBN-13 ‏: ‎3032851386

ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-3031282959