Case Studies in Internal Medicine Atul Kakar, Atul Gogia
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1Case Studies in Internal Medicine2
3Case Studies in Internal Medicine
Editors Atul Kakar DNB MNAMS FICP FRCPS(Glasg) Professor Department of Internal Medicine Ganga Ram Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (GRIPMER) New Delhi, India atulkakar@hotmail.com Atul Gogia DNB MRCP(UK) Associate Professor Department of Internal Medicine Ganga Ram Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (GRIPMER) New Delhi, India atulgogs@rediffmail.com Foreword SP Byotra
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5Contributors 7Foreword
It gives me great pleasure to write the foreword of Case Studies in Internal Medicine.
Internal Medicine is the mother of all medical subspecialties. The wide variety of complex medical cases seen in Internal Medicine is a challenging task. This book gives an insight about management of these complex cases which a physician or internist may not be able to address at peripheral level, however, the knowledge about them helps to refer the patient to the concerned doctor.
To be able to analytically assess medical problems, approach to a differential diagnosis and thereby formulate a diagnostic and treatment plan are the challenges in Internal Medicine, which bring about excitement in practising this specialty.
This book on Cases in Internal Medicine is written from the perspective of how to approach common medical conditions, by authors who have extensive training and experience in diagnosing and managing those diseases. The book promises to fill a major void in this area of diagnostic approach in clinical cases.
The editors and the contributors must be lauded for producing a useful book for postgraduates and practising clinicians in general.
I extend my very best wishes for the success of this book.
SP Byotra md
Professor and Head
Department of Internal Medicine
Ganga Ram Institute of Postgraduate Medical
Education and Research (GRIPMER)
New Delhi, India
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9Preface
There are many books on Internal Medicine, but not many have a case–based teaching approach.
Theoretical knowledge and factual information do add to our clinical acumen but a case-based approach and differential diagnosis discussion greatly helps the clinicians in their day-to-day patient management. Patient care depends upon many factors in which foremost is training and knowledge of the concerned doctor. This book would help the physicians what to do next if they have symptoms in their patients.
This book has been designed to be of use to postgraduates and physicians in their daily practice. The book covers unusual cases in Internal Medicine with emphasis on approach to various common clinical symptomatology and presentations.
Atul Kakar
Atul Gogia
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11Acknowledgments
We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to Dr PS Gupta and Dr Ved Prakash for their constant encouragement and inspiration and Ms Rekha Negi, Department of Internal Medicine, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India, for her technical and editorial help.
Our sincere thanks to Dr M Bhargava, Dr Amrita Saraf, Dr Sabina Langer, Dr Jasmita, Dr Astha Gupta, Department of Hematology and Dr Chand Wattal, Dr Jaswinder Oberoi, Dr Sanghamitra Dutta, Dr Neeraj Goel, Dr Reena Ravinderan, Department of Microbiology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India, for their whole-hearted support and encouragement for this difficult task.
We would like to thank Dr KP Jain (FRCP), Advisor and Dr PS Gupta (MD), Emeritus Professor, Department of Medicine, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India, for being the guiding force behind this book as without their valuable knowledge and vast experience this herculean task would not have been possible. We also thank the contributors for their valuable time and hope that you enjoy reading the book.
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