The Consummate Clinician offers
hospital-based physicians an organizing framework for coping with daily
challenges both in patient care and in teaching. The book describes in a
highly formatted, easily accessible way exactly how physicians and
physicians-in-training can think critically and act decisively in this
age of medical information overload. Special emphasis is on (1) error
avoidance and reduction – a topic that has long been championed by
hospitalists, (2) efficient practice management for best patient
outcomes and improved cost control, (3) the use of evidence-based
medicine, and (4) improving communication among and between physicians
and other staff in the hospital setting. Using real-world clinical
examples and scenarios, the book focuses on essential topics, many of
which tend to fall between the cracks of print and electronic resources.
Pearls and pitfalls of gathering, processing, and communicating medical
information are presented, but more than these, this book is meant as a
kind of clinical GPS—a way of helping hospital-based physicians find
their clinical coordinates and keep their bearings in the face of new
challenges and uncertainties. In addition to the clinical scenarios
featured throughout, additional mini-cases are collected at the end of
the book. The over-arching goal of this new resource is to enrich the
way hospital-based physicians think about diagnosis, therapy, and
prognosis, especially at the warp-speed of “ward world,” which
increasingly lurches between the frazzled and the frantic.
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