Main description:

For more than forty years, the single-best guide for learning how to become a master clinical diagnostician

Much more than a text describing how to perform a history and physical examination, DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination is unmatched in its ability to help you logically assess symptoms and physical signs to facilitate development of reasonable, testable diagnostic hypotheses.

Part physical examination primer, part differential diagnosis guide, DeGowin's:

• Describes how to obtain a complete history and perform a thorough physical examination
• Links symptoms and signs with the pathophysiology of disease
• Presents a symptom, sign, anatomy, and physiology-based approach to differential diagnosis
• Facilitates efficient cost-effective diagnostic testing using focused differential diagnoses

Organized as a practical bedside guide to assist diagnosis, DeGowin's is valuable as a quick reference at the point-of-care or as a text to study the principles and practice of history taking and physical examination.

Contents:

1. Diagnosis2. History Taking and the Medical Record3. The Screening Physical Exam4. Vital Signs, Anthropometric Data, and Pain5. Non-Regional Systems and Diseases6. The Skin and Nails7. The Head and Neck8. The Chest9. The Abdomen, Perineum, Anus, Rectosigmoid10. Urinary System11. Female System12. Male System13. Spine, Pelvis, Extremities14. Neurologic Exam15. Mental Status, Social Evaluations16. Preoperative Evaluation17. Diagnostic Screening18. Lab Tests