Introducing Diagnosketch

A Visual Guide to Medical Diagnosis for the Non-Medical Audience

I am excited to share information about my first book, Diagnosketch: A Visual Guide to Medical Diagnosis for the Non-Medical Audience (Oxford University Press) amzn.to/3T1f0gM. I first started creating and illustrating this book over 8 years ago. I am so happy to finally announce that it is here! I hope that this book will be helpful to both clinicians and patients to promote health literacy.

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Here is the blurb about the book:

Diagnosketch is a one-of-a-kind visual book that helps explain medical diagnoses to a non-medical audience. It simplifies human anatomy and pathophysiology into memorable, patient-friendly, understandable images. It intentionally leaves out details that are not clinically relevant and over-emphasizes ones that are. 

Created and illustrated by an ER physician with over 20 years of clinical experience, Diagnosketch covers bread-and-butter diagnoses seen in acute care settings: kidney stones, diverticulitis, back pain, gallstones, ovarian cysts, arthritis, and more. It contains diagnostic images, procedural images, and concept images that are useful at different stages of a patient encounter.

Medical professionals use this guide, at the bedside, to better communicate with patients in various acute care settings, like Emergency Rooms and Urgent Care Clinics.

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Here is a quick (1:24 min) book trailer. Click to take you to YouTube

Book trailer: Diagnosketch

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“I use Diagnosketch on every shift, every day. We find this the single most useful and efficient tool at the bedside to help patients understand what is happening to their bodies.”

—Raymond Biersbach, MD, Former Director of Emergency Medicine, Atrium Health Cabarrus Hospital; ER doctor with 10 years experience

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How to use Diagnosketch:

Diagnosketch is meant for bedside patient communication. Its colorful, simple images help explain common medical concepts simply and effectively, in just a few minutes. It encourages two-way dialogue.

Key features of Diagnosketch

• 100+ colorful images

• Spiral-bound on durable glossy cardstock

• Real-time tested on hundreds of patients

• Common diagnoses compiled in one easy-to-use book

• Effective teaching tool that improves health literacy

• Uses plain language

• Simple to understand for the layman

• Conveys complicated concepts quickly and simply

• Color-coded index for easy search

• Clears up common misconceptions at the bedside

“As a nurse who spends a fair amount of time educating patients and their families, this book is a brilliant idea! It allows me the opportunity to impact patients’ understanding of their disease, and is an excellent resource in triage.”

—Elizabeth Gibb, BSN, RN, Emergency Department Nurse for 41 years at the busiest EDs in New England

Sample pages from Diagnosketch:

Sample Pages From Diagnosketch

“This book replaces the need to pull up Google at the bedside to search for images. All common diagnoses are compiled and easy-to-understand!”

—John Burger, MD, EM Physician with 10+ years’ experience in Charlotte, NC

Diagnosketch serves as the visual guide that medical professionals use with every patient at the bedside. Excellent medical care involves diagnosing and treating disease, but just as importantly, it involves communicating well with patients. Diagnosketch helps achieve this goal. For more information, please visit www.diagnosketch.com.