This is a comprehensive anthology of cases featuring frequently encountered patient presentations in medical practice, with a focus on highlighting the diagnostic complexities. The curation stems from the years of experience and challenges faced by the authors. In each scenario, readers will find practical takeaways and succinct medical insights. These are aimed at fostering critical thinking and empathy skills among medical professionals. This book is also designed to help budding medical students, interns, as well as general medicine and family medicine trainees, to be familiar with the unfamiliar. Expect the Unexpected will greatly benefit family physicians at different stages of their careers and also to clinicians providing first contact with patient care. This book is strongly recommended to enhance [medical practitioners’] expectations for unexpected clinical conditions. Prof Albert Lee, MBBS DCH MPH MD FRACGP FRCP Hon FFPH Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, HKU
About the Authors Prof Dr Chia Yook Chin, MBBS LRCP MRCS FRCP FAFPM (Hon) is a graduate from Universiti Malaya and later joined Sunway University in 2018. She now heads the Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medical and Life Sciences there. Dr Ng Wei Leik, MBBS MMed AM (Mal) is a family physician and a graduate from Universiti Malaya. He is currently a senior lecturer in Universiti Malaya and practises in Universiti Malaya Medical Centre.
Expect the Unexpected A Compilation of Common Clinical Cases Posing as Diagnostic Dilemmas
Expect the Unexpected
Expect the Unexpected A Compilation of Common Clinical Cases Posing as Diagnostic Dilemmas
ISBN 978-967-5492-94-5
9 789675 492945
Chia Yook Chin Ng Wei Leik