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Zusatztext The book feels as though you are at the bedside being taught by a doctor. Informationen zum Autor T. A. Roper is a Consultant Geriatrician with Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust. Klappentext Clinical Skills, Second Edition, is a practical and comprehensive guide to history taking, examination, and interpretation of results for medical students, junior doctors, and nurse practitioners. Written with wit and clarity, and packed with illustrations, this book will teach you how to join the dots between signs, symptoms, and diagnoses. This textbook sets out invaluable routines for the examination of each system, and includes chapters on interpreting chest x-rays and spot diagnosis. Over 500 line drawings and colour photographs give practical examples of core and advanced examination skills. Throughout the text, key points and tips dispense essential wisdom, while case studies help you to put theory into practice. This new edition of Clinical Skills is now more useful than ever in your preparation for finals. Each chapter ends with a short set of assesment questions and a section on how the system in question is tested in OSCEs. Even better, the chapter on finals has been expanded and updated to give more practical advice than ever before. Written in plain English and designed to demystify even the most daunting procedures, Clinical Skills, Second Edition is the ultimate all-round textbook to help you hone your skills and prepare for finals. Zusammenfassung Clinical Skills, Second Edition is a comprehensive, practical guide to the art of history taking and examination. Heavily illustrated and packed with sage advice, this textbook is essential reading for medical students preparing for OSCEs and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: T. A. Roper and Niall Cox: Introduction 2: T. A. Roper: Clinical settings 3: T. A. Roper and Niall Cox: Core aspects of history taking 4: N. Cox: Cardiovascular system 5: Niall Cox: Respiratory system 6: Richard Gale, Anita Sainsbury, Aravamuthan Sreedharan and T. A. Roper: Neurological examination 7: T. A. Roper: Abdominal examination 8: T. A. Roper: Rectal examination 9: Helen Parker-Bray, Sian Griffiths, Jan Clark and Harriet Wallace: Genitourinary system 10: Keiran Horgan and T. A. Roper: Breast examination 11: T. A. Roper: Neck examination 12: Chris Gale and T. A. Roper: Joints 13: T. A. Roper: Spot diagnosis 14: Nicola Holme, Ruchi Gulati, Chakrapani Vasudevan, Catriona McKeating and Amanda Peacock: Examination of the child 15: Chris Gale: Chest x-ray 16: Harveer Dev and James Masters: Finals ...
