Clinical Methods in Medicine (Clinical Skills and Practices) – 1st edition
Clinical Methods in Medicine (Clinical Skills and Practices) – 1st edition
Provides the students an opportunity to get acquainted with the secrets of history taking and clinical examination
and then take the help of appropriate bedside investigations so as to plan the management. The basic aim of the
book is to describe the various skills in taking a history and step by step clinical examination including general
physical and systemic examination. Unit I is devoted to history taking and analysis of the symptoms pertaining to
various systems. Unit II concentrates on the clinical examination, includes first ten chapters on detailed general
physical examination while next ten chapters of Unit III deals with the proper systemic examination. The approach of
this book is basic, i.e. to start with the history taking and then proceed to analyse the symptoms and discuss their
significance and then find all what is normal or what is abnormal on physical examination. The examination sequence
is detailed, abnormal findings to be noted on inspection or palpation also detailed and relevance of abnormal
findings discussed simultaneously. Throughout the book, the “key points” are highlighted in the boxes.