CLINICAL RATIONALES

These five books are designed for both the medical student and the doctor who is not a specialist. They cover RASHES and diseases of the ABDOMEN, BRAIN, CHEST and EYE.

They were written by Dr. Carter for the medical students he lectured in the School of Health Sciences and Medicine at Bond University, on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

The books take the user through a logical rationale in order to diagnose, and then treat, virtually every condition, in each of the five areas, likely to be encountered outside a specialist practice.

In each of the books, there are two ways to reach a diagnosis, using the chart in Section One, or the Diagnostic Algorithms in Section Two.

In Section One, a chart will guide the user through the location of presenting symptoms for most conditions to a selection of possible diagnoses.

As an alternative, the algorithms in Section Two will indicate the diagnoses possible with a variety of presenting symptoms.

   Once a diagnosis has, or number of differential diagnoses have been made, a detailed explanation of the various diagnoses can be found in the largest part of the book, Section Three. This has been written in a style that should be easy to understand by even junior medical students, with technical terms explained in each monograph, but should still be useful to the non-specialist doctor. The symptoms, signs, investigations and treatment of a very wide range of conditions are explained, along with pictures of the more common conditions.

MEDICAL STUDENT RESOURCES