"The physical exam can either determine disease or confirm good health. When a patient presents to her physician with a set of symptoms, the physical exam and patient history can identify the cause and serve as a guide for subsequent diagnostic testing. It is a key building block in the practice of medicine, yet students and residents have difficulty determining what information is relevant and how it applies to the patient"--Provided by publisher.
"The physical exam can either determine disease or confirm good health.
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Diagnose with confidence, knowing that your patient assessments are backed by scientific evidence! This is the only clinical reference that takes an evidence-based approach to the physical examination. Best of...
An enjoyable and thorough book emphasizing the underlying physiology and hemodynamic alterations of cardiac conditions that are detectable through the cardiac physical exam.
Townsend CM Jr, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, et al., eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 18th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders; 2008:ch 73. James E. Corwin, MD Scenario A 32-year-old female presents with. Chapter 393 911.
Introducing an innovative, systematic approach to understanding differential diagnosis, Frameworks for Internal Medicine helps students learn to think like physicians and master the methodology behind diagnosing the most commonly ...
Diagnosis and Injection Techniques in Orthopedic Medicine
This comprehensive text contains 64 chapters covering all sources of poisoning.
This classic text is much beloved by medical students and physicians-in-training throughout the English-speaking world, as its many editions indicate.
In Lovell and Winter's Pediatric Orthopedics, 7th ed., Weinstein SL, and Flynn JM, eds. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1388–1525. Deeney VF, et al. 2012. Orthopedics. In Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis, 6th ed, ...