Clinical Reasoning and Differential Diagnosis: Evaluate Your Skills

by Josep Pastor
January 2020

Clinical Reasoning and Differential Diagnosis: Evaluate Your Skills is a practical, case-based guide designed to strengthen diagnostic thinking and clinical decision-making in veterinary medicine. The book helps veterinarians develop a structured approach to evaluating clinical signs, narrowing differential diagnoses, and selecting appropriate diagnostic tests.

For applying these skills in real-world practice, this resource pairs perfectly with 100 Top Consultations in Small Animal General Practice, which focuses on the most common clinical cases encountered in daily veterinary work.

After explaining how clinical reasoning can be applied to identify a patient’s problems, focus on the most relevant issue, and determine its causes, this book describes complex case studies from a physiological and diagnostic perspective.

Accurate diagnosis often depends on integrating clinical findings with pathology and internal medicine knowledge. For comprehensive disease understanding, refer to Ettinger’s Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 9th Edition, a leading reference in small animal medicine. Additionally, for structured approaches to organ-specific diseases, see Disorders of the Liver, Exocrine Pancreas, and Gastrointestinal Tract in Dogs and Cats.