Guide to Clinical Practice in Post Covid World
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This is a must-read book for all modern medical doctors, who wish to be useful to the society, to improve their diagnostic skills, their approach to patients, especially when they want to promote health and wellness in the society. Covid19 has exposed all the lacunae in the present style of medical practice, where everyone was groping in the dark and several were seen fishing in troubled waters; but it seems now that even Covid 19 is not enough to teach them a lesson. Using the case histories, the author exposes the pitfalls in present style of medical diagnosis and management and suggests directions for change.Citing pitfalls in Covid 19 management, he gives future directions for managing such pandemics and the need for a global policy in health care and disease care.
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AUTHOR
PK Sasidharan, known to his students as PKS, is a Professor of Internal Medicine, and former head of the department of Internal Medicine at Calicut Medical College. He had a brilliant academic background, being the best outgoing student for MBBS from University of Calicut and obtained his post graduate training in internal medicine from PGI Chandigarh and decided to stick onto internal Medicine by choice. He has more than three decades of teaching experience and clinical practice, known as an outstanding teacher who inspired thousands of undergraduate medical
students and post graduate trainees. Besides, he had a unique clinical practice, while working in Calicut Medical College with a 3500-bed hospital, probably the largest in Asia, and heading the internal medicine department with 400 beds and simultaneously looking after the Hematology section, helping countless patients to come out of their vexing problems and simultaneously helping doctors in the periphery to improve their clinical skill. He used to maintain case diaries of interesting case histories of the patients referred to him during the last three decades. In the
background of Covid 19, he realized the need to share some of the valuable information and thoughts based on these case histories in an attempt to save modern medicine. He is sharing some rare case histories in two volumes, to help modify modern medical practice, to change health care and as an attempt to change the world.
