Patient Encounters: The Internal Medicine Work-Up provides practical, how-to guidance for medical students approaching patients for the first time in a new internal medicine rotation. This pocket-sized book covers most common conditions encountered in the internal medicine clerkship and focuses on the important stages or timelines in the patient encounter. The book identifies pertinent positives, negatives, and alert conditions in the history and physical examination; provides guidance on working up the patient, including appropriate diagnostic studies and procedures; explains the rationale behind clinical decision making; and provides diagnosis-based, evidence-based, high-yield, peer-reviewed journal references.