Medical School for Everyone

Grand Rounds Cases

By: Roy Benaroch, The Great Courses

Narrated by: Roy Benaroch

Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

There's an art and science behind how doctors diagnose and treat medical patients. Where do doctors get these skills? The Grand Rounds experience, where they practice how to make accurate diagnoses by examining real patients. And with Dr. Benaroch's 24 unique lectures, you'll explore how a master physician solves medical problems just like a detective.

Whether you're a patient, a current or future medical professional, or just someone who enjoys a good mystery, you'll discover how doctors use medical science to identify and combat injuries and diseases; how they uncover tiny clues patients can fail to notice; how they sometimes make misdiagnoses that lead to costly (and life-threatening) problems; and how they think their way toward putting patients on the fast track to proper treatment.

Drawn from actual medical stories, these 24 Grand Rounds take you everywhere from the calm of a doctor's office to the chaos of an emergency room. You'll hear how a 33-year-old man's fever and mouth sores are clues to one of today's most notorious diseases; why an explorer's life-threatening nausea and pain demand emergency surgery; how doctors treat a trauma patient at the site of an accident; and much more.

Dr. Benaroch has crafted a rewarding learning experience; one packed with thrilling Grand Rounds cases that will captivate you, that will provide you with an exciting new way to think about medicine, and that will help you become a better, more informed patient.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2014 The Great Courses; 2014 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)2014 The Teaching Company, LLC

Great for health professional hopeful

Any additional comments?

This is a must have for anyone trying to get into med/DO/dent/pharm. Many health professional schools are forgoing lectures and going towards "problem-based learning" as the basis for teaching their curriculum; much the same way as this audiobook. Differential diagnosis is the main theme here. It gives you insight into how a skill physician interprets sign, symptom, lab values, radiographs etc. in order to come up with a diagnosis and treatment plan. I hope Dr. Benaroch does more of these grand rounds

Good review for anyone

I am a Physician Assistant and have been in practice over 25 years. All of the cases have been a great review for me. Very well done. Thank you.

Great Medical Info

The way material was presented in clearly explained case studies made it easily understandable and informative. The reader learns a great deal.

informative, fun, and just amazing

Would you consider the audio edition of Medical School for Everyone to be better than the print version?

I never write a review for a book before but I have to give 5 stars to Professor Roy. He is amazing. The content is extremely well put together. you will get to practice a lot of clinical thinking. This is a MUST have for me.

Which scene was your favorite?

the case of chronic hives

well thought out

I learned a lot of the things I wanted to learn. I didn't get a chance to challenge myself or find sources, but that's what good textbooks are for. this is no textbook. it's invigorating and intelligent. I can ask little more from an audiobook.

A+

The learning and application of my knowledge learned from my health sciences degree has been greatly enhanced by this course.

The doctor's best tool

This course reinforced what I learned from other books: listen to the patient and get a thorough history and physical. Don't solely rely on tests. Make the diagnosis fit the evidence.

Patients need a primary care doc who knows them well. Avoid using urgent care and EDs instead. Ask questions; understand the treatment plan; make your wishes known. Have input into all decisions.

Talks about different cases - symptoms and disease

What did you love best about Medical School for Everyone?

I liked the way the narrator took actual patients and asks questions for evaluation of diagnosis. The narrator show the different perspectives the Physicians can look at, factors in making a decent diagnosis, patient leads and how much a patient may actually listen to a Physician.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked the way the narrator told the whole story of the patients history and hereditary influences of the patient. I liked the way the author used a checklist and testing to make a diagnosis.

What about Professor Roy Benaroch’s performance did you like?

I liked the sound of his voice.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

"Through a Doctor Eyes"

Any additional comments?

Sadly to say a lot of Doctors nowadays don't keep their " eyes wide open" and just want to get the patient in and out. It would be nice for narrator to talk more about natural means of healing instead of dealing out pharmaceuticals. Also, the author makes one think maladies patients suffer from seem rather so easy to solve which just is not so.....Some people suffer their entire life with ill health on no account of their own. They don't talk about that.

Wrong defibrillator usage 11hours 2mins

Great course along with the emergency medicine one by the same doctor. But at 11:02:00 the narrator implies that cardiac arrest/heart failure warrants a manual defibrillation. This isn't a one-time mistake, since he shocks two more times as the patient's heart stops. Defib is indicated during arrhythmias like ventricular fibrillation or "V-Fib" ... the electric current absolutely does NOT restart the heart, but only resets the fibrillations. Still a great listen, minus a silly reference to marijuana that implies it is harmful in any way at all :P

Amazing course

Highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn more about health and medicine in general.