The Everyday Doctor's OPD Handbook, Volume 1 – Dr Kumar Sumit & Dr Shristi Singh Premium Multicolor Matt Print

There is a gap between the medicine you are taught and the medicine you practise in a busy outpatient department. The textbook gives you a full differential and a complete workup. The OPD gives you seven minutes, a queue outside the door, and a patient who needs a decision today.

This handbook is written for that gap. Its own subtitle says it plainly — a practical handbook for rapid diagnosis, treatment, counselling and follow-up in daily clinical practice — and it is built around the four things an OPD consultation actually requires: work out what this is, decide what to investigate, decide what to give, and explain it to the patient so they follow it.

What This Book Covers

31 practical chapters, organised around the structure of a consultation rather than around a syllabus:

• Diagnosis Made Simple — reaching a working diagnosis quickly
• Investigations Made Easy — what to order, and what not to
• Management Made Practical — treatment you can actually start in clinic
• Patient Counselling Guide — how to explain the plan so the patient follows it
• Follow-up: what to review, and when

Why an OPD Handbook Earns Its Place

Most clinical references are written to be comprehensive. A handbook like this is written to be fast, and in outpatients speed is not a compromise — it is the constraint you are working inside. A reference you cannot consult between patients is a reference you will not consult at all.

The counselling material is the part worth singling out. Counselling is the step that is almost never taught formally and almost always determines whether the treatment works. A plan the patient does not understand is a plan the patient does not take.

Key Features

• Practical, quick, evidence-based and patient-centred, by its own description
• 31 chapters covering common outpatient presentations
• Built around the consultation: diagnosis, investigation, management, counselling, follow-up
• Written for doctors, students and residents
• Volume 1 of the series

Who Is This Book For?

• House officers and medical officers running OPD clinics
• General and family practitioners
• MBBS students starting clinical rotations
• Residents who want a quick-reference companion to their main textbook
• Any doctor who sees a high volume of outpatients and needs structure rather than depth

Book Details

• Title: The Everyday Doctor's OPD Handbook
• Volume: Volume 1
• Authors: Dr Kumar Sumit, Dr Shristi Singh and team
• Chapters: 31
• Language: English

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