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Hutchison's Clinical Methods

An Integrated Approach to Clinical Practice

  • 24th Edition - March 30, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Michael Glynn, William M. Drake
  • Language: English

Hutchison's Clinical Methods: An Integrated Approach to Clinical Practice, 24th Edition, first published more than a century ago, is the classic textbook on clinical skills.… Read more

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Hutchison's Clinical Methods: An Integrated Approach to Clinical Practice, 24th Edition, 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. Hutchison's Clinical Methods: An Integrated Approach to Clinical Practice, 24th Edition 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.

Key features

  • The book provides a comprehensive account of the traditional methods of patient history-taking and examination but is updated with a full account of the role of modern investigative techniques
  • This is a book for students of all ages and all degrees of experience

Readership

Medical students, Foundation and trainee doctors, residents.

Table of contents

General patient assessment

1. General principles of history-taking

2. General patient examination and differential diagnosis

3. The next steps: differential diagnosis and initial management

4. Ethical considerations

Assessment in particular groups

5. Women

6. Children and adolescents

7. Older people

8. Psychiatric assessment

9. Patients presenting as emergencies

10. Patients with a fever

11. Patients in pain

Basic systems

12. Respiratory system

13. Cardiovascular system

14. Gastrointestinal system

15. Locomotor system

16. Nervous system

17. Urogenital system

18. Endocrine and metabolic disorders

19. Skin, nails and hair

20. Eyes

21. Ear, nose and throat

Review quotes

2018 BMA Awards: Highly Commended, Medicine

Product details

  • Edition: 24
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 19, 2017
  • Language: English

About the editors

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, UK

WD

William M. Drake

Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Physician/Reader in Medicine, Department of Endocrinology, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK