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Every week receive Clinical Decisions Explained
Every week, Clinical Decisions Explained walks through a real case from acute medicine.
Not just the diagnosis. The reasoning.
What to consider first. What to rule out. Where the traps are. How to think when the presentation isn't textbook.
It's the kind of teaching you'd get from a good registrar on a quiet night – except it arrives in your inbox every week.
Case-Based Reasoning
Real cases from the acute take. See how the systematic reasoning method works in practice, not just theory.
The Method, Made Visible
The thinking behind the structure: how to move from a symptom to a diagnosis, one deliberate step at a time.
On-Call Survival
Practical pearls for working on-call – the stuff nobody teaches you in medical school.
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The Diagnostic Operating System
A five-step method for working through any patient on the take — especially the ones who don't fit.
What's inside:
The five-step method, from the moment you pick up the call to a working diagnosis and plan
Why the diagnoses we miss are almost never the ones we didn't know
The three traps that catch even experienced doctors and how a structure defeats each one
How to take any symptom, understand the initial branch points of the differential, and work the branches
A worked case showing the whole method in action
10 pages. Read it once before your next shift, and come back to it whenever a patient doesn't fit.
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The Diagnostic Operating System (PDF) – instant download
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The method is the start. This is the whole system.
The Diagnostic Operating System teaches you how to think.
The Acute Medicine Course is where that thinking gets built out in full – all fourteen diagnostic frameworks, across the presentations you actually meet on the take.
All 14 diagnostic frameworks, built branch by branch
Detailed notes for every lesson
Two days of live, case-based, interactive teaching
14 hours of video teaching
25 CPD points
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A free weekly newsletter where I share real acute medicine cases and walk through the diagnostic reasoning step by step. You'll see how frameworks apply to actual patients – not just theory.
FY doctors, IMTs, IMGs, Clinical Fellows, AHPs – anyone working acute takes who wants to think more systematically. The On-Call Survival Guide series is especially useful for new doctors and IMGs.
You’ll receive:
The Diagnostic Operating System (PDF) – immediate download
Weekly Clinical Decisions Explained emails
The 10-part On-Call Survival Guide series (if you opt in)
After you subscribe, you'll get a short welcome series introducing Happy Medics, delivering your free guide, and inviting you to a free live workshop. After that, one email per week on diagnostic reasoning, either going through the literature or reasoning through interesting cases. Occasionally there might be an update about new resources or courses. No spam, and you can unsubscribe anytime.
The free guide, The Diagnostic Operating System, gives you the five-step method – how to think through any presentation. The Acute Medicine Course gives you all 14 frameworks built out in full, the video teaching, a live session, and CPD. The newsletter keeps you learning in between.
Yes. This archive stores a limited selection of our previous newsletters, so you can browse some of the cases and teaching pearls whenever you like. But to stay up-to-date, I recommend subscribing.
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