Now in its revised, updated Second Edition, The Internal Medicine Casebook: Real Patients, Real Answers helps students and house officers develop their clinical reasoning skills. Readers will learn how to apply the pathophysiology they learned in basic science courses to real patient problems encountered on hospital wards.The book presents patient-oriented cases for 88 diseases in all areas of internal medicine. Case studies follow a question-and-answer format that mirrors the style of rounds presentations. Each case begins with pertinent aspects of the patient's history and physical examination and proceeds to questions and answers about the appropriate diagnostic workup and treatment.