Neurologic differential diagnosis : a case-based approach / edited by Alan Ettinger, Epilepsy Director, Neurological Surgery P.C., Rockville Center; Director of the Epilepsy Wellness Program, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola; Director of EEG and Epilepsy, Huntington Hospital, Huntington; and Professor of Clinical Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA., Deborah Weisbrot, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Director, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Outpatient Clinic, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stony Brook University Medical Center, New York, USA.
Contributor(s): Ettinger, Alan B [editor of compilation.] | Weisbrot, Deborah M [editor of compilation.].
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2014Description: XXIV, 668 s. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9781107014558 (hardback).Subject(s): Diagnosis, Differential | Nervous system -- Diseases -- Diagnosis | Neurology | MEDICAL / NeurologyGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: "There is an apocryphal story of an eminent neurology professor who was asked to provide a differential diagnosis. He allegedly quipped: "I can't give you a differential diagnosis. If you wish I will give you a list of wrong diagnoses followed by the right diagnosis." Sadly, this sort of arrogance pervaded our field, particularly in the era before there were accurate diagnostic methods and effective treatments of neurological diseases. Fortunately, this sort of pomposity is now relegated to the past and remains only as an antique reminder of a type of hubris that precluded discovery and progress in diseases of the nervous system"--| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"There is an apocryphal story of an eminent neurology professor who was asked to provide a differential diagnosis. He allegedly quipped: "I can't give you a differential diagnosis. If you wish I will give you a list of wrong diagnoses followed by the right diagnosis." Sadly, this sort of arrogance pervaded our field, particularly in the era before there were accurate diagnostic methods and effective treatments of neurological diseases. Fortunately, this sort of pomposity is now relegated to the past and remains only as an antique reminder of a type of hubris that precluded discovery and progress in diseases of the nervous system"--