num_pages: 455
description: This concise pocket-sized guide presents the classic Bates approach to physical examination and history taking in a quick-reference outline format. The book features a beautiful full-color design with over 500 drawings and photographs and an easy-to-follow two-column format with examination techniques on the left and abnormalities and interpretations on the right. Highlights of this edition include greater emphasis on patient communication and interview techniques, a new chapter on the older adult, and new drawings and photographs of abnormalities. A bound-in CD-ROM contains a free PDA download with outlines of examination procedures and techniques.
language: English
title: Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination And History Taking
titlecomplete: Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination And History Taking
genres: Textbooks, Medical
ratings_count: 143
publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins