A week later, Leo called again. He’d had a patient with confusing labs—high sodium, normal chloride, erratic BUN. The team was about to start aggressive diuresis. Leo remembered Chapter 18’s case study: factitious lab error from improper collection. He redrew the blood. The values normalized. The patient improved with simple fluids.
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Elias, a man who measured life in grams of salt and milliliters of water, walked to the town’s forgotten library. There, between Gray’s Anatomy and a 1980s pharmacology text, he found a spiral-bound PDF printout: A week later, Leo called again
For quick "on-the-ward" reference when a lab value doesn't match the clinical picture. Leo remembered Chapter 18’s case study: factitious lab
For nearly five decades, medical students, residents, nurse practitioners, and practicing physicians have relied on a concise, spiral-bound, pocket-sized wonder: . Unlike massive textbooks of pathology or clinical chemistry, Bakerman’s organizes thousands of lab values by disorder , differential diagnosis , and pattern recognition — making it indispensable during rounds and in urgent care settings.