Clinical Methods

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Bailliere Tindall
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1980
Edition: Reprint

Description: 495 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: This book provides comprehensive coverage of the skills required for history-taking and physical examination, the choice and analysis of investigations to aid diagnosis, and the importance of the doctor-patient relationship. In this new edition the emphasis remains on providing practical information for diagnosis using traditional skills, but in keeping with developments, This book provides comprehensive coverage of the skills required for history-taking and physical examination, the choice and analysis of investigations to aid diagnosis, and the importance of the doctor-patient relationship. In this new edition the emphasis remains on providing practical information for diagnosis using traditional skills, but in keeping with developments, brief accounts of modern investigative methods and the principles underlying them are given where relevant. The text has been thoroughly revised, reorganized and updated. Two new chapters have been included on the examination of women and on the genitalia and sexually transmitted diseases. Students will welcome this book at the outset of their clinical work and find it a handy and reliable reference in their postgraduate years. An ELBS/LPBB edition is available. ...more

ISBN: 070200801x