Macleod's Clinical Examination

This textbook describes the practical skills the clinician must acquire and develop in order to evolve diagnostic procedures and management strategies and plans. Its main purpose is to document and explain how to: * talk with a patient * take the history from the patient * examine a patient * formulate your findings into differential diagnoses and rank these in order of probability * use investigations to support or refute your differential diagnosis.The book has three sections: The first details the principles of history taking, general examination and the external features of disease. Section two comprises the systems chapters which are laid out in the same order. * Brief introduction setting the scene * Definitions and common symptoms * The History, what questions to ask and how to follow them up * The Clinical Examination, what and how to examine * Investigations: * those done at the patient's side (near-patient tMacleod, John is the author of 'Macleod's Clinical Examination ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780443074059 and ISBN 0443074054.