The Brockton Series: Twelve Cases
Dr. David Okonkwo
LeMay Publishing
MEDICAL
The Brockton Series: Twelve Cases
Case Reports16,295 words34 chapters
Published by LeMay Publishing. 16,295 words across 34 chapters.
About This Publication
Clinical case reports illustrating diagnostic reasoning under uncertainty, presenting twelve cases from Brockton Regional Medical Center that demonstrate structured reasoning through ambiguous clinical presentations.
Published by LeMay Publishing, a division of LeMay. Massachusetts.
ISBN: 979-8-0000-7052-9
Chapters
1THE BROCKTON SERIES: TWELVE CASES
2Clinical Case Reports Illustrating Diagnostic Reasoning Under Uncertainty
3ABOUT THE AUTHOR
4TABLE OF CONTENTS
5FOREWORD
6PREFACE: ON UNCERTAINTY AND THE DIAGNOSTIC ACT
7CHAPTER 1
8Case One: The Carpenter's Hands
9CHAPTER 2
10Case Two: Recurrent Syncope in a Young Woman
11CHAPTER 3
12Case Three: The Widening Shadow
13CHAPTER 4
14Case Four: A Fever That Would Not Declare Itself
15CHAPTER 5
16Case Five: The Mathematician's Confusion
17CHAPTER 6
18Case Six: Weight Loss in the Absence of Disease
19CHAPTER 7
20Case Seven: The Blood That Would Not Clot
21CHAPTER 8
22Case Eight: Bilateral Lower Extremity Weakness After a Respiratory Illness
23CHAPTER 9
24Case Nine: Chest Pain in a Thirty-Year-Old Marathon Runner
25CHAPTER 10
26Case Ten: The Transplant Recipient With New-Onset Seizures
27CHAPTER 11
28Case Eleven: Jaundice Without Obstruction
29CHAPTER 12
30Case Twelve: The Patient Who Had Been Everywhere
31AFTERWORD: PRINCIPLES DISTILLED
32GLOSSARY OF DIAGNOSTIC REASONING TERMINOLOGY
33BIBLIOGRAPHY
34INDEX OF CLINICAL CONDITIONS