Title: Textbook of physical diagnosis : history and examination /
Authors: Swartz, Mark H.
Publisher: Saunders/Elsevier,
Year: 2010
Subjects: MEDICAL / Diagnostic Imaging.; MEDICAL / Diagnosis.; Untersuchung <Medizin>.; Physical Examination; Medical History Taking; Diagnosis; Physical diagnosis Textbooks.; Examen physique.; Interrogatoire médical.; Diagnostic; Anamnese.
Abstract: Despite the advanced technologies at our disposal today, a complete health history and physical examination remain the most crucial diagnostic tools in any healthcare practitioner's arsenal. For nearly two decades, Dr. Swartz's textbook has shown readers how to derive the maximum diagnostic information from interviewing and examining patients. Using a compassionate, humanistic approach, Dr. Swartz explores how cultural differences can influence communication, diet, family relationships, and health practices and beliefs, and demonstrates that your interpersonal awareness is just as essential in physical diagnosis as your level of technical skill.
Contents: The interviewer's questions -- The patient's responses -- Caring for patients in a culturally diverse society -- Understanding complementary and alternative medicine -- Assessment of nutritional status -- Putting the history together -- The physical examination -- The skin -- The head and neck -- The eye -- The ear and nose -- The oral cavity and pharynx -- The chest -- The heart -- The peripheral vascular system -- The breast -- The abdomen -- Male genitalia and hernias -- Female genitalia -- The musculoskeletal system -- The nervous system -- Putting the examination together -- The pregnant patient -- The pediatric patient -- The geriatric patient -- The acutely ill patient -- Diagnostic reasoning in physical diagnosis -- The clinical record -- Focusing on the focused history and physical examination.