How does one think to reach the correct diagnosis? This question is not easily answered in conventional textbooks.

Moreover, the specific process a doctor follows to draw conclusions is not taught in detail in medical schools either.

This book presents, in a simple, comprehensible, and enjoyable manner (even when it comes to mathematical concepts), references to scientific articles, as well as to books by physician-writers or texts by medical journalists, and quite often includes excerpts from famous literary works to develop the fundamental principles underlying diagnostic work.

The cognitive processing by which clinical and paraclinical information leads to the identification of the disease from which a patient suffers is explained.