Offering a compassionate, humanistic approach in this critical area, Swartz Textbook of Physical Diagnosis, Nineth Edition, helps you master each aspect of the art and science of interviewing and physical examination. This highly regarded text clearl
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Offering a compassionate, humanistic approach in this critical area, Swartz Textbook of Physical Diagnosis, Nineth Edition, helps you master each aspect of the art and science of interviewing and physical examination. This highly regarded text clearly teaches how your interpersonal awareness is just as crucial during the patient interview and physical exam as your level of skill—and why clinical competence in this area is essential for physicians, osteopathic physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, and all other members of the healthcare profession. From cover to cover, you’ll learn fundamental skills and concepts that result in more accurate diagnoses, more effective patient management, and better patient outcomes.
Offering a compassionate, humanistic approach in this critical area, Swartz Textbook of Physical Diagnosis, Nineth Edition, helps you master each aspect of the art and science of interviewing and physical examination. This highly regarded text clearly teaches how your interpersonal awareness is just as crucial during the patient interview and physical exam as your level of skill—and why clinical competence in this area is essential for physicians, osteopathic physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, and all other members of the healthcare profession. From cover to cover, you’ll learn fundamental skills and concepts that result in more accurate diagnoses, more effective patient management, and better patient outcomes.
Key Features
Offers fully revised content throughout, including clear, easy-to-understand explanations of interviewing and examination techniques, clinical presentations, pathophysiology, complementary and alternative medicine, and physical diagnosis standards and tests
Includes three new chapters: The Transgender Patient; Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Encounters: Opportunities and Challenges; and Telehealth: Adapting Clinical Assessment
Explores how cultural differences can influence communication, diet, family relationships, and health practices and beliefs—which may affect your approach to a patient’s treatment
Features hundreds of high-quality color images, an easy-to-use design, and detailed descriptions of practical techniques throughout
Contains new end-of-chapter review questions in most chapters.
Highlights clinical ethics and professionalism
Includes more than 6 hours of in-depth instruction, with 40+ updated videos featuring step-by-step aspects of the physical examination for adults, toddlers, and newborns, important interviewing scenarios, and audio of heart and lung sounds
Features online appendices covering English-to-Spanish Translations Useful in the Medicine Setting, Commonly Misused Substances, Signs and Symptoms of Deficiency States, and more
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text and figures, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
Evolve Instructor site with an image collection and videos is available to instructors through their Elsevier sales rep or via request at https://evolve.elsevier.com.
Author Information
By Mark H. Swartz, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine, State University of New York (SUNY), Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, New York; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York; Professor of Medical Sciences, New York College of Podiatric Medicine, New York, New York and Director, C3NY--Clinical Competence Center of New York, New York, NY, USA
By Mark H. Swartz, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine, State University of New York (SUNY), Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, New York; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York; Professor of Medical Sciences, New York College of Podiatric Medicine, New York, New York and Director, C3NY--Clinical Competence Center of New York, New York, NY, USA
Section 1 Mastering the Art of Interviewing 1. The Interviewer's Questions 2. The Patient's Responses 3. Understanding Complementary and Alternative Medicine 4. Putting the History Together
Section 2 Valuing Diversity: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity 5. Deconstructing Racism and Bias in Clinical Medicine
Section 3 Understanding the Science of the Physical Examination 6. The Physical Examination 7. Assessment of Nutritional Status 8. The Skin 9. The Head and Neck 10. The Eye 11. The Ear and Nose 12. The Oral Cavity and Pharynx 13. The Chest 14. The Heart 15. The Peripheral Vascular System 16. The Breast 17. The Abdomen 18. Male Genitalia and Hernias 19. Female Genitalia 20. The Musculoskeletal System 21. The Nervous System 22. Putting the Examination Together
Section 4 Evaluating Specific Patients 23. The Pregnant Patient 24. The Pediatric Patient 25. The Geriatric Patient 26. The Acutely Ill or Injured Patient
Section 5 Putting the Data to Work 27. Precision, Accuracy, and Critical Thinking in Clinical Assessment 28. The Clinical Record 29. The Focused History and Physical Examination
Section 6 Analyzing Ethical Issues in Clinical Medicine 30. Clinical Ethics and Professionalism
Appendices (Available online) A. Commonly Abused Drugs B. Signs and Symptoms of Deficiency States C. Conversion Tables D. English-to-Spanish Translations Useful in the Medical Setting E. The Rational Clinical Examination: Additional References F. CDC Recommended Immunization Schedule
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