| Description |
1 online resource (245 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface; PART ONE: Human Meets Pathogen; 1 The Deadly Dinner Party; 2 Everywhere That Mary Went; 3 The Baby and the Bathwater; 4 Rubbed the Wrong Way; 5 The Forbidden Fruit; PART TWO: The External Environment; 6 Two Ticks from Jersey; 7 An Airtight Case; 8 Monday Morning Fever; 9 The Case of the Wide-Eyed Boy; PART THREE: The Internal Milieu; 10 A Study in Scarlet; 11 The Case of the Overly Hot Honeymoon; 12 Feeling His Oats; 13 The Case of the Unhealthy Health Food; 14 Little Luisa's Blinding Headache; 15 Too Much of a Good Thing; Sources; Index |
| Summary |
The world is filled with bizarre and fascinating ways to fall ill. A notorious stomach bug turns a suburban dinner party into a disaster that almost claims its host; a diminutive woman routinely eats more than her football-playing boyfriend but continually loses weight; a young executive is diagnosed with lung cancer, yet the tumors seem to wax and wane inexplicably. In these fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories, practicing physician and award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gri |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Diagnosis -- Popular works
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Diagnosis, Differential -- Popular works
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Medicine -- Case studies
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MEDICAL -- Laboratory Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diagnosis.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Assessment & Diagnosis.
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Diagnosis
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Diagnosis, Differential
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Medicine
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Popular works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781742232461 |
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1742232469 |
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