DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination, Tenth Edition (Lange)

DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination, Tenth Edition (Lange)

<h4>For more than forty years, the single-best guide for learning how to become a master clinical diagnostician</h4> <p>Much more than a text describing how to perform a history and physical examination, <i>DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination</i> is unmatched in its ability to help you logically assess symptoms and physical signs to facilitate development of reasonable, testable diagnostic hypotheses.</p> <p>Part physical examination primer, part differential diagnosis guide, <i>DeGowin's</i>:</p> <ul> <li>Describes how to obtain a complete history and perform a thorough physical examination</li> <li>Links symptoms and signs with the pathophysiology of disease</li> <li>Presents a symptom, sign, anatomy, and physiology-based approach to differential diagnosis</li> <li>Facilitates efficient cost-effective diagnostic testing using focused differential diagnoses</li> </ul> <p>Organized as a practical bedside guide to assist diagnosis, <i>DeGowin's</i> 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.</p>