Expect the Unexpected

Expect the Unexpected: A Compilation of Common Clinical Cases Posing as Diagnostic Dilemmas 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