DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination (Paperback, 8th Revised edition)

The classic internal medicine manual for students and residents This handy guide addresses physical examination techniques and procedures while providing a catalog of clinical findings resulting from the physical examination. Thoroughly reorganized, the Eighth Edition of DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination features a more user-friendly, easy-access format than previous editions. How much simpler it would be if the practice of medicine was a matter of matching one symptom to one diagnosis Headache means disease X; Dizziness means disease Y, Chest pain means disease Z. Most symptoms, as with the broadly suggestive headache, dizziness, and chest pain, raise a number of diagnostic possibilities. Narrowing down the possibilities effectively and efficiently is a large part of the work of all good clinicians. This essential function has been immovable no matter what particular era or age medical practice has gone through. From Osler to the rise of Specialty Medicine to Managed Care to the developing age of Molecular Medicine, establishing an educated hypothesis of the possible causes of a patient's complaint(s) is essential to the good practice of medicine. This book has proven so successful over many editions because it: * Provides a proven framework for the clinician to establish the diagnostic possibilities of all the major symptoms * Relates signs from physical examination to the presenting symptoms * Consequently helps the clinician narrow down the diagnostic possibilities to a limited set that can be efficiently tested by additional physical or laboratory examinations Does all of the above in a truly remarkable manner, useful both as a "quick reference" or "point of care" guide and as a book of core principles and broad knowledge