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Smith (medicine, Yale) has constructed a generalist's field guide designed to aid physicians at the bedside. Organized to parallel the diagnostic reasoning process of a clinician, the manual begins with a patient's chief complaint, offering a differential overview of probable causes, diagnostic approach for each differential, and clinical findings that point to diagnosis. A 240-plate photographic atlas illustrates classic observable phenomena that suggest underlying systemic disease processes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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This Field Guide enables medical students, residents, and practitioners to recognize subtle clinical differences observed at the bedside and to move from symptoms, physical findings, and history to a working diagnosis. The structure parallels the diagnostic reasoning process. Each chapter focuses on a symptom or physical finding and proceeds from a list of possible causes, to a diagnostic approach, to the key specific features of each disease in the differential. More than 200 full-color illustrations show diagnostically important observable signs.
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