How to make a clinical diagnosis: a step by step guide

Taking the first steps towards making your first clinical diagnosis can be hard. There are many skills to consider – including medical knowledge, checking test results, histories, and reassuring the patient. In a four part ‘step by step’ guide, Huw Llewelyn, author of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis, demonstrates a model scenario. https://global.oup.com/academic/produ... Fully revised for its third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis provides a concise and practical summary of the reasoning processes behind clear and confident diagnosis. The handbook is set out systematically with symptoms and signs through each specialty, and includes a detailed description of the basis of logical evidence-based differential diagnosis. Huw Llewelyn was formerly Consultant Physician and Honorary Departmental Fellow, at Kings College Hospital, London, and Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion, UK. © Oxford University Press