Field guide to bedside diagnosis

This "Field Guide" enables medical students, residents, and practitioners to recognize subtle clinical differences observed at the bedside and to move from symptoms, physical findings, and history to a working diagnosis. The structure parallels the diagnostic reasoning process. Each chapte...

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Main Author: Smith, David Scott (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ©1999
Series:Field guide
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Summary:This "Field Guide" enables medical students, residents, and practitioners to recognize subtle clinical differences observed at the bedside and to move from symptoms, physical findings, and history to a working diagnosis. The structure parallels the diagnostic reasoning process. Each chapter focuses on a symptom or physical finding and proceeds from a list of possible causes, to a diagnostic approach, to the key specific features of each disease in the differential. More than 200 full-color illustrations show diagnostically important observable signs
Item Description:Includes index
Physical Description:xvii, 333 pages 80 pages of plates Some colour illustrations 21 cm
ISBN:9780781716307
0781716306