Hutchison's Clinical Methods
An Integrated Approach to Clinical Practice With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
- 22nd Edition - April 20, 2007
- Latest edition
- Author: Michael Swash
- Editor: Michael Glynn
- Language: English
Hutchison’s Clinical Methods, first published over a century ago, is the classic textbook on clinical examination. It provides an outstanding source of learning and reference for… Read more
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Description
Description
Hutchison’s Clinical Methods, first published over a century ago, is the classic textbook on clinical examination. 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
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.
Readership
Readership
Medical students, Foundation and trainee doctors, MRCP candidates.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Section 1
The approach to the patient
1. Doctor and patient: general principles of history taking
2. Physical examination: General principles
3. Differential diagnosis: the beginning of a management plan
Section 2
General assessment
4. Psychiatric assessment
5. Nutritional assessment
Section 3
Basic systems
6. Respiratory system
7. Cardiovascular system
8. Gastrointestinal system
9. Locomotor system
10. Nervous system
Section 4
Clinical specialities
11. Skin, nails and hair
12. Endocrine disorders
13. Diabetes and other metabolic disorders
14. Kidneys and urinary tract
15. Gynaecology and obstetrics
16. Children and adolescents
17. Older people
18. Eyes
19. Ear, nose and throat
20. Face, mouth, jaws and neck
21. Unconscious patients
22. Major acute trauma injury
23. Intensive care
24. Pain
25. People with cancer
26. Blood disorders
27. Sexually transmitted infections
Section 5
Ethics
28. Ethical issues in medicine
Appendix 1: A guide to reference ranges used in pathology
Appendix 2: Collecting specimens for laboratory analysis
Appendix 3: Blood and intestinal parasites
Index
The approach to the patient
1. Doctor and patient: general principles of history taking
2. Physical examination: General principles
3. Differential diagnosis: the beginning of a management plan
Section 2
General assessment
4. Psychiatric assessment
5. Nutritional assessment
Section 3
Basic systems
6. Respiratory system
7. Cardiovascular system
8. Gastrointestinal system
9. Locomotor system
10. Nervous system
Section 4
Clinical specialities
11. Skin, nails and hair
12. Endocrine disorders
13. Diabetes and other metabolic disorders
14. Kidneys and urinary tract
15. Gynaecology and obstetrics
16. Children and adolescents
17. Older people
18. Eyes
19. Ear, nose and throat
20. Face, mouth, jaws and neck
21. Unconscious patients
22. Major acute trauma injury
23. Intensive care
24. Pain
25. People with cancer
26. Blood disorders
27. Sexually transmitted infections
Section 5
Ethics
28. Ethical issues in medicine
Appendix 1: A guide to reference ranges used in pathology
Appendix 2: Collecting specimens for laboratory analysis
Appendix 3: Blood and intestinal parasites
Index
Review quotes
Review quotes
"This book covers all the examinations needed for a clinical medical student. The text is clear and the illustrations are good."
Medical Student - UK
"The quality of illustration is excellent – from the line drawings to the radiographs and colour plates...In summary, this is a book that must be indispensable to medical students who are starting their clinical work but wouldn’t be out of place as a refresher for GPs in the surgery."
Dr Jeremy Sager, Univadis, Oct 2008
Medical Student - UK
"The quality of illustration is excellent – from the line drawings to the radiographs and colour plates...In summary, this is a book that must be indispensable to medical students who are starting their clinical work but wouldn’t be out of place as a refresher for GPs in the surgery."
Dr Jeremy Sager, Univadis, Oct 2008
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 22
- Latest edition
- Published: April 27, 2007
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
MG
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, UKAbout the author
About the author
MS
Michael Swash
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor of Neurology, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London; Honorary Consulting Neurologist, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital, London, UK