Examining Patients: Introduction to Clinical Medicine

by PeterJ.Toghill (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $3.24

  A modern textbook with an up-to-date approach to the vital role of examining patients, which will be of use to medical students, their teachers and general practitioners. It is based on much clinical and teaching experience of physical diagnosis. To understand patient syndromes a doctor must develop a keen and critical ability both to listen to them and to examine their physical signs. This book integrates new types of investigation such as CT, MRI and echocardiography with the traditional clinical skills. There are sections on the elderly, locomotor system diseases, AIDS and AIDS related diseases, making this book relevant to modern day clinical medicine. An ELBS/LPBB edition is available.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.24

  This modern textbook features an up-to-date approach to the vital role of examining patients, which should be of use to medical students, their teachers and general practitioners. It is based on much clinical and teaching experience of physical diagnosis. The book describes how to interview and examine patients and illustrates important physical signs with diagrams and photographs. Particular emphasis is placed on those diseases and syndromes most commonly encountered in Western countries, but it also includes a section on tropical disease. Revised and updated, this second edition includes: new diagrams and colour photographs; use of second colour in text to highlight tables; a glossary of medical terms for new clinical students; and new chapters on physical signs in pregnancy; and on black-outs, collapses and shock. An ELBS/LPBB edition is available.