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Title: Hutchison's clinical methods: an integrated approach to clinical practice.
Author Name: Michael Glynn and William M. Drake [Editor].
Author Sur Name: GLYNN, Michael.
Other's Author Name: William M. Drake
Author information:
<h3>Michael Glynn (Affiliations and Expertise) : Consultant Physician, Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Barts Health NHS Trust; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry; Former National Clinical Director for GI and Liver Diseases, NHS England.</h3> <h3>William M Drake (Affiliations and Expertise) :Professor of Clinical Endocrinology, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK</h3>
Edition/Published: 24th ed. _London : Elsevier , 2018
New to this edition:
  1. In this latest edition new methods and investigations are incorporated with established patterns of clinical practice, rather than added on as something extra, the text is organized so that both system-related and problem-oriented chapters are includes particular emphasis is placed on the importance of the doctor –patients relationship, the essential skills needed for clinical examination, and for planning the appropriate choice of investigations in diagnosis and management

    2. Many detailed changes have been introduced with the support of the new international Advisory. Board drawn from countries in South asia and the middle east. A large survey of reader opinions has also helped to direct many of the changes made throughout the text.

Physical Description:
: <p>xvi, 482p., : ill. (some col.), tables.; 26.5cm.</p>.;
Notes Includes Index.
Includes Index: P. 465-482
ISBN No's: 978-0-7020-6740-2 , 978-0-7020-6740-2 , 978-0-7020-6740-2 , 978-0-7020-6740-2 , 978-0-7020-6740-2
Bar Code's: , , , ,
Shelf Location's: 38 , 38 , 38 , 38 , 38
Classification
Subject: Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
Dewey Class No: 616.07/5
Letter Call No: GL52h
LC Classification: RC46 .H89 2018
Other's Book Information
Book ID No: 2209 , 2210 , 2208 , 2207 , 2206
Total Books: 5
Date of collection's: 05-Mar-2018 , 05-Mar-2018 , 05-Mar-2018 , 05-Mar-2018 , 05-Mar-2018
Donation / Purchase: Purchase
Language: English
Status: Available
Department: Medicine
Synopsis:
  1. A textbook on clinical skills. It provides a source of learning and reference for undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors. It seeks to teach an integrated approach to clinical practice, so that new methods and investigations are grafted onto established patterns of clinical practice, rather than added on as something extra.

Review:
  1. "This book covers all the examinations needed for a clinical medical student. The text is clear and the illustrations are good." Medical Student - UK "For both the book overall as well as individual system-specfic sections, information is efficiently presented to lead the reader froim a generalized approach in he beginning to specfic points of guidance at the end, in tandem with the book's recommended diagnostic approach for investigation of each individual patient...Overall, this book is highly recommended as a cornerstone for the library for any student clinician."

Description:
  1. Hutchison’s Clinical Methods, first published more than a century ago, is the classic textbook on clinical skills. It provides an outstanding source of learning and reference for undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors. It seeks to teach an integrated approach to clinical practice, so that new methods and investigations are grafted onto established patterns of clinical practice, rather than added on as something extra. The text is organised so that both system-related and problem-oriented chapters are included. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of the doctor-patient relationship, the essential skills needed for clinical examination, and for planning the appropriate choice of investigations in diagnosis and management.

Key Features:
    • Provides a comprehensive account of the traditional methods of patient history-taking and examination but updated with a full account of the role of modern investigative techniques.
    • A book for students of all ages and all degrees of experience.
    • The most comprehensive account of clinical methods on the market.
    • This long established textbook of clinical method has been thoroughly revised, with fewer chapters, so as to concentrate on the basic principles of history and examination in all the various clinical settings which medical students need to mast
    • A new chapter concentrates on the assessment of patients presenting as emergencies
    • A new editorial team on this 23rd Edition maintains the highest standards of content and presentation.
Summary:

Hutchison’s Clinical Methods is an invaluable resource for all those learning and training in medicine and is an essential adjunct to a standard textbook of medicine, surgery or other specialty.

Abstract:

Hutchison published the first edition along with Rainy. Hutchison’s Clinical Methods, first published more than a century ago in 1897, is the classic textbook on clinical skills. It provides an outstanding source of learning and reference for undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors. It seeks to teach an integrated approach to clinical practice, so that new methods and investigations are grafted onto established patterns of clinical practice, rather than added on as something extra. The text is organised so that both system-related and problem-oriented chapters are included. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of the doctor-patient relationship, the essential skills needed for clinical examination, and for planning the appropriate choice of investigations in diagnosis and management. Hutchison’s Clinical Methods is an invaluable resource for all those learning and training in medicine and is an essential adjunct to a standard textbook of medicine, surgery or other specialty. The book has international readership.

Content:

Chapter 1: Doctor and patient: General principles of history taking

Chapter 2: General patient examination and differential diagnosis

Chapter 3: The next steps: Differential diagnosis and initial management

Chapter 4: Ethical considerations

Chapter 5: Women

Chapter 6: Children and adolescents

Chapter 7: Older people

Chapter 8: Psychiatric assessment

Chapter 9: Patients presenting as emergencies

Chapter 10: Patients with a fever

Chapter 11: Patients in pain

Chapter 12: Respiratory system

Chapter 13: Cardiovascular system

Chapter 14: Gastrointestinal system

Chapter 15: Locomotor system

Chapter 16: Nervous system

Chapter 17: Urogenital system

Chapter 18: Endocrine and metabolic disorders

Chapter 19: Skin, nails and hair

Chapter 20: Eyes

Chapter 21: Ear, nose and throat

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