RHEUMATOLOGY CLINICS CLINICAL SCENARIOS

Clinical Scenarios deals with the everyday situations encountered in a Rheumatology Clinic. Unlike a traditional textbook, the contents are not listed disease-wise. Clinical presentation are discussed. The patient’s narrative or the predominant complaint is the fulcrum around which the discussion revolves. Given the myriad of ways rheumatic diseases present to a multitude of specialties, the contributing authors are drawn from multiple disciplines. Despite the heterogeneity of content, the uniform refrain that underlies the book is a simplified, evidence-based, bedside approach, not an armchair discussion. The question that every chapter attempts to answer is how do I tackle this problem in my clinic with the patient sitting in front of me. Apart from clinical issues, a few important laboratory and radiologic scenarios are also included. More than 95 distinguished authors have contributed to 64 chapters that abound in tables, flowcharts, and clinical pictures. Clinical Scenarios is different from case-based teaching where the emphasis is on the uncommon or rare presentations of common diseases or common presentations of rare diseases. Here the thrust is on the routine, commonplace issue. The problems discussed are conventional, the approach unconventional. The ethos-you can spot the ‘unusual’ only if you know the ‘usual’. The commonality of the discussed situations makes this book indispensable for all those who handle rheumatic diseases-rheumatologists, internists, orthopedic surgeons, physiatrists, musculoskeletal radiologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, medical students, and nurses. There is something for everyone be it a veteran or a beginner. Clinical Scenarios is refreshingly different. The scenarios are not exotic or esoteric. They are ‘extraordinary ordinary’. This is what makes it a must-have book-a vade mecum!