BookJoel I. Shenker, Nakul Katyal, Junaid Siddiqui, Raghav Govindarajan, editors.
Summary: This concise book is about using clinical stories to learn how to practice neurology. Each chapter represents a neurological case from different sub-specialty of neurology; authors illustrate how clinical neurology storytelling remains heavily tied to a detailed understanding of neuroanatomy, then consideration of a differential diagnosis for neuroanatomic localization before determining an etiologic a differential diagnosis. The neuroanatomic localization can be focal (one spot or region), multifocal (two or more physically discrete separate regions), or diffuse (widely dispersed across a broad but selected part of neuroanatomy). These stories capture the hypothesis testing point of view by offering different diagnostic possibilities based on presenting history alone, and then the storyteller revises those possibilities after testing them further with physical exam findings and later with test data. At each point, the exercise is to understand what the possibilities are based only on the information available at that point of the hypothesis testing and data collection processes. This interesting read for the upcoming residents and medical student educates on presenting complex neurological case in an explicit way.
Contents:
Section 1: Neuro-Oncology
Chapter 1. Case 1: Elusive
Chapter 2. Case 2 : Summer Butterflies
Section 2: Spinal Cord
Chapter 3. Case 1: Come and Gone
Section 3: Headache
Chapter 4. Case 1: Every day is a Sunday
Chapter 5. Case 2: Mi Cabeza
Section 4: Neuromuscular
Chapter 6. Case 1: Make Me Smile
Section 5: Neurovascular
Chapter 7. Case 1: Eye of the Tiger
Section 6: Neuro-immunology
Chapter 8. Case 1: The Last Ride
Section 7: Cognitive Neurology
Chapter 9. Case 1 : He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Chapter 10. Case 2: The Minister, his Ferrari and his new wife
Section 8: Neuro-ophthalmology
Chapter 11. Case 1: Doc I see aliens!
Chapter 12. Case 2: Still Cant See (NMSOD).