Product Description
- It details the symptoms of a disease pertaining to systems, does the symptom analysis so as to pick up the specific system to which the symptom pertain.
- Examination (general, physical and systemic) concentrates on the detection of physical signs, and their interpretation, so as to narrow down the diagnostic possibilities.
- Diagnosis is made provisionally based on physical signs but is confirmed by diagnostic tests.
- The differential diagnosis is mostly made on the physical signs so to avoid unnecessary diagnostic tests.
- The book emphasizes the importance of physical signs in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis. Nowadays physicians/students rely more on the investigations than the physical signs, hence advise a large battery of tests which consume time as well as money.
- At the end of each unit, brief synopsis of various diseases pertaining to different systems is provided.
- The book is more or less complete as far as diagnostic symptoms and signs are concerned.
- It is written in a simple understandable language.
- The present day students do not want to learn medicine in detail but just aim to pass the examination; they are always in search of good books which can provide them ready-made material. The authors have written this book keeping such readers in view.
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| Publisher | CBS Publishers & Distributors |
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| Size | 9.5 X 6.75" |
| Year | 2017 |
| Edition | 1\e |
| Pages | 464 |
| Author | SN Chugh, Ashima |
| Subject | Medicine |