Symptomatic Approach in Medicine is a book for the practitioner, resident physician, medical student, nurse practitioner and physician assistant seeking guidelines for diagnosis. The topics are brief and organized by signs, symptoms, problems or abnormal laboratory findings. Following a decision-tree approach, one arrives at the appropriate diagnosis, family of diagnosis or appropriate therapy for the problem under concern.
This book assumes orderliness to diagnosis in medicine. The approach offers a template that can minimize unnecessary testing, control medical costs and provide uniform quality care in the patient’s evaluation.