The ability to save a life boils down to the clinician's ability to diagnose.The construction of a differential diagnosis can be a complex and time-consuming process for students and practicing clinicians. Many pocket references provide lists to assist with differential diagnosis and treatment. This can leaves the clinician with a significant amount of research involving the identification of highly sensitive and specific findings aimed at ruling in and ruling out a diagnosis. The process of diagnosis and differential diagnosis hinges on adequate pattern recognition. An operational method of approaching this process is essential. Concise Medicine features over 150 algorithms and over 50 images designed to assist the student or practicing clinician in constructing and working through a differential diagnosis and complex management topics with the additional aid of scattered clinical pearls. Nearly four years in the making, Dr. Nicholas Hatcher constructed this book with the clinician in mind, emphasizing topics encountered in the internal medicine population. By emphasizing an algorithmic approach to diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Concise Medicine builds upon the clinician's ability to mobilize the cognitive process of pattern recognition in order to improve the precision of diagnosis.