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Clinical Treatment Made Easy
A Practical Prescribing Guide for Physicians
A point-of-care reference for common outpatient, primary-care and general-ward presentations.
From presentation to prescription, in one consistent format.
At the point of care, the same questions come up every time. What could this be? What should I look for? What should I investigate? What should I prescribe? When is routine care no longer enough?
Clinical Treatment Made Easy answers them in a predictable chapter format, so you always know where to look. It is built for quick, structured decisions rather than exhaustive theory.
Every major chapter follows the same six steps
- Signs and symptoms: the typical presentation and the clues that matter
- Red flags: findings that should raise your level of concern
- Investigations: what to order first, and what to keep for specific indications
- Rx Corner: assessment, prescription, dose, route, duration, alternatives, special situations and what to avoid
- Escalation and referral: when routine outpatient care is no longer enough
- Common prescribing mistake: a short reminder of an error that is easy to miss
Selected chapters end with a 60-second recap.
What it covers
- General and infectious medicine: fever, influenza, dengue, malaria, enteric fever, TB, skin and soft-tissue infections
- Respiratory: URTI, community-acquired pneumonia, asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, pleural effusion
- Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary: dyspepsia, GERD, diarrhoea, hepatitis, cirrhosis, pancreatitis
- Cardiovascular: hypertension, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, dyslipidaemia, DVT, post-MI prevention
- Diabetes, endocrine and metabolic: type 2 diabetes, insulin initiation, thyroid disorders, gout, osteoporosis, PCOS
- Neurology: headache, epilepsy, vertigo, Bell's palsy, TIA, dementia
- Renal and urology: UTI, pyelonephritis, CKD, AKI, renal colic, BPH
- Musculoskeletal and rheumatology: low back pain, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, septic arthritis
- Dermatology, ENT and ophthalmology
- Gynaecology and paediatrics
- Psychiatry and sleep: depression, GAD, panic attacks, insomnia, alcohol use disorder
- An Emergency Recognition Quick-Reference appendix
Scope, stated plainly
It is built for outpatient, first-contact and chronic-disease management. Detailed emergency and resuscitation management is outside its scope; the appendix helps you recognise when a patient needs more than routine care.
Who it is for
MBBS doctors, interns, Medical Officers, general practitioners, primary-care doctors and residents managing common OPD presentations.
Good to know
Digital PDF, delivered after purchase. Prescriptions in the book are clinical reference examples. Check patient-specific factors, local protocols and current guidelines before prescribing.
Make your clinical thinking more systematic.
Keep this practical prescribing reference available for learning, revision and point-of-care reference.
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