Clinical Dialogues in Hospital Medicine

Clinical Dialogues in Hospital Medicine – a true representation of classic ward round proceedings, is an exciting, novel approach to medical writing showcasing “speaking/teaching” from the bedside. It is written in such elegant style that makes for easy reading using real patients encountered in ward rounds over the years and designed as a clinical companion to medical students studying Internal Medicine around the world as well as a refreshing read for clinicians. It includes over 60 pages of example-based guides to ECG interpretation.

Clinical Dialogues in Hospital Medicine is, perhaps, the first of its kind in Medicine. It is like a classic ward round come alive! Like typical bedside conversations between the Consultant and his team of doctors and medical students in a book form. It is written in such elegant style that makes for easy reading; captures a number of common as well as rare (real) cases encountered in ward rounds and seen anywhere in the world. It includes over sixty pages of example-based step-by-step guides to ECG interpretation. The cases in this book are meticulously researched to reflect current international standards and evidence-based practice. It is recommended as an invaluable aid to medical students studying Internal Medicine around the world as well as a refreshing read for clinicians in practice and even Consultants involved in teaching medicine. It has been suggested that this book might even be useful for Internal Medicine post-graduate diploma students preparing for their long cases. The printed copy is such a beauty to behold and of very high quality. This book is exciting to read even for the non-medically trained!

Dr. Gabriel Chibuzor Ukala, FRCP Edin, born at Mbiri (a small village near Agbor) in Nigeria, West Africa, has close to thirty years’ experience in the practice of medicine across Nigeria, United Kingdom and Jamaica (West Indies) where he currently lives. Following his primary medical qualification (Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery) from the school of medicine, University of Benin, Benin City, he spent several years as a frontline doctor in a busy private hospital at Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria and later founded and managed a successful 10-bed hospi- tal where he gained invaluable medical and surgical skills. His love for Internal Medicine and Cardiology led him to pursue the MRCP training in the United Kingdom where he undertook several clinical attachments, didactic lectures and courses. He also worked at the coronary care unit, St. John’s Hospital, Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland, in 2004 where he ran the chest pain clinic – a new service at the hospital at the time. Dr. Ukala gained his fellowship into the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, in 2011. He is also a member of the British Medical Association (BMA) since January 2005. He currently works as a consultant physician with special interest in cardiology and is the acting head of department, Internal Medicine, at Mandeville Regional Hospital. This hospital (accredited for teaching and affiliated with the University Hospital of the West Indies) is one of the finer hospitals set on the salubrious hills of central Jamaica. He teaches Internal Medicine as an associate lecturer of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica. He enjoys echocardiography as a sonographer and has developed a unique simple echo reporting template currently being written into software. He is an amateur pianist and saxophonist, loves music and spirituality, does a little dancing and is married with two lovely daughters.