Neurology: A Clinician's Approach (Cambridge Medicine) by Andrew Tarulli

Neurology: A Clinician's Approach teaches a symptom-oriented approach to the 20 most common problems facing trainee neurologists. The reader is instructed which questions to ask to elicit the chief complaint, how to ask these questions, and how to interpret the answers. Essential reading for neurology residents and medical students.

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Tarulli's Neurology: A Clinician's Approach is the perfect reference for non-neurologists and those beginning their training in neurology. The text provides a comprehensive practical approach to common neurological disorders that the reader is likely to encounter in clinical practice. The author blends chapters that discuss the evaluation of specific neurological complaints (confusion, coma, aphasia, visual loss) with others that focus on particular disorders (Parkisonism, multiple sclerosis, stroke). Each chapter emphasizes practical approaches to these complaints and disorders with a focus on clinical pathways for diagnosis and management and useful "pearls" rather than unhelpful factoids. The illustrations and diagrams are very clear and easy to understand while the clinical images (EEGs, CT, MRI) provide superb examples of a variety of neurological disorders. The discussions and algorithms presented in the text are evidence-based and state-of-the-art. Importantly, since reading time is frequently at a premium for most clinicians, the text is concise and very well-written. I would enthusiastically recommend Tarulli's Neurology: A Clinician's Approach to any general practitioner (internist, family physician), emergency medicine physician, or neurology house officer. This text is also ideal for medical students during their neurology electives or neurology subinternships. I wish this text had been available when I was a medical student!