Examining Patients

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.